YD Linux on PS3 - .mkv files?

Inoshishi · 18 Sep 2007 at 14:12

Can anyone confirm if they have installed Yellow Dog Linux on their PS3, does it play .mkv files without any problems?

And this is a real longshot but....do subtitles work too?

Thanks if you can help

Wyrdo · 18 Sep 2007 at 14:14

Well, if you can get vlc player running on YD then .mkv files should play fine.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Inoshishi · 18 Sep 2007 at 14:16

wyrdo said:
Well, if you can get vlc player running on YD then .mkv files should play fine.

http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

Thanks mate, although I could really do with someone confirming it before I spend the 50 notes on a new HDD.

But thank you, I will give vlc a try if I go ahead with it...

GarethDW · 18 Sep 2007 at 15:19

I was going to suggest using VLC too. I know it plays .mkv files, and even if there's no binary for YDL available you could always compile from source. I'd say it's worth a go.

Inoshishi · 6 Oct 2007 at 12:26

Well I finally got around to trying this, Installed Ubuntu and have just installed VLC, .mkv playback works but its jerky as hell (im guessing this has something to do with linux only being given a certain amount of resource from cpu/mem)

I will try YDL later but I expect it to be the same, have ran out of DVD's, just sent the mrs out to buy me some more

rp2000 · 6 Oct 2007 at 14:45

I have played mkv in the PS3 just using xmb. Obviously I had to do a conversion of the video files, but to get mkv to play you do not have to re-encode the whole video. so the actual conversion is less than 10 mins. Then just copied onto a USB stick, plays back flawlessly. Obviously not everyone is happy to re-encode their files if they have lots, but it is very quick using pspvideo9.

As far as I know you cannot run 720p mkv files in Linux yet without excessive jerking.

rp2000

Inoshishi · 6 Oct 2007 at 14:51

rp2000 said:
I have played mkv in the PS3 just using xmb. Obviously I had to do a conversion of the video files, but to get mkv to play you do not have to re-encode the whole video. so the actual conversion is less than 10 mins. Then just copied onto a USB stick, plays back flawlessly. Obviously not everyone is happy to re-encode their files if they have lots, but it is very quick using pspvideo9.

As far as I know you cannot run 720p mkv files in Linux yet without excessive jerking.

rp2000

Thanks rp2000, do subtitles work though? thats the most important thing for me...

rp2000 · 6 Oct 2007 at 14:54

Inoshishi said:
Thanks rp2000, do subtitles work though? thats the most important thing for me...

No they don't (I assume you mean seperate subtitle files that you would load using VLC or Media Player Classic etc).

rp2000

Inoshishi · 6 Oct 2007 at 15:43

rp2000 said:
No they don't (I assume you mean seperate subtitle files that you would load using VLC or Media Player Classic etc).

rp2000

Yeah thats the problem for me, everything I want to watch on my PS3 is Japanese lol.

Ah well I will have to think of something else...