TVersity and Playstation 3 - Full HD Transcoding

I wanted to watch some movies on my PS3, therefore I was in need of something that could stream my movies to my PS3 and making them suitable for the PS3 ‘on-the-fly’, this process is called ‘transcoding’. So here’s my guide to get it working.

You need a fast PC. In my case an Intel Core2 Quad Q9550; and you need your PS3 to have a wired connection to your network!
To get things working do the following:

1. Install the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack
2. Install TVersity
3. Click Start, Run, and type ’services.msc’, go to the TVersityMediaServer service, click the Log On tab and change the so that the service will log on under your current account (in my case Administrator)
4. Start TVersity and configure as desired.
5. Stop TVersity including the service.
6. In the installation directory of TVersity you’ll find the config.xml file, modify the highlited values:

   <transcode when="pprofile" optimize="quality" connectionSpeed="WIRED_HIGH" downsampleForConnectionSpeed="false" audioCompressionRatio="8" videoCompressionRatio="18" disableDecodingClock="true" wmProfile="wmv8" wmEncodeDShow="true">
   <maxVideoInfo width="1920" height="1080" bitrate="10000000" fps="30"></maxVideoInfo>
   <minVideoInfo width="0" height="0" bitrate="0" fps="24"></minVideoInfo>
   <maxAudioInfo sampleRate="48000" bitsperSample="16" bitrate="384000" nchannels="6"></maxAudioInfo>
   <minAudioInfo sampleRate="32000" bitsperSample="0" bitrate="0" nchannels="1"></minAudioInfo>
   <maxImageInfo width="1920" height="1080"></maxImageInfo>
   </transcode>

7. Start the service again.

And you’re set; now TVersity will transcode most movies to your PS3 in good HD quality. Transcoding will always incur quality loss.

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