Frankly, BD is NOT ready for prime time movie watching via streaming to the PS3 yet, not by a long shot!
I am having really bad luck lately ripping BD movies to the hard drive and streaming them to the PS3.
IF everything goes all right, then a program called Twonky will show the BD’s .m2ts stream file that contains the movie in your Video folder on your hard drive and you can run it on your PS3. It will be in high definition, In ENGLISH, and in 5.1 surround sound.
The issues are many.
1. Have to rip the movie to your hard drive with AnyDVD HD (worked two out of 6 movies for me so far “error reading drive”). Or you can try copying the largest .m2ts file in the stream folder on the BD disk to your hard drive “error reading file”. That works a little better as I can retry the copy. Got one more movie onto the hard drive that way. So 3 out of 6 movies failed just to copy ONE file over to hard drive. (Yes, yes, I know. Submit a “LOG REPORT”. Some work, most don’t. That is MY log!)
2. THEN the .m2ts file has about a 30% chance of playing in English. You need to remux it with TSMuxerGui.exe to see what AC3 language files are there and delete the French, Spanish, and any other AAC files (commented film for instance). Trial and error on that.
3. Sometimes the Audio file is in the TrueHD format. THAT has to be translated into AC3 using a program called TsRemux.
So I have gotten exactly 3 out of 6 BD movies to stream properly to the PS3 from my hard drive. Each of them took from 1 to 4 hours of trial and error to do it. Unfortunately, my first movie went perfectly and I reported it that way. Rude surprise when the rest crapped out. “Live free and Die hard” was my “lucky” movie. “The Prestige”, forget it as I could not rip and could not copy the 0000.m2ts file AT ALL.
I am having really bad luck lately ripping BD movies to the hard drive and streaming them to the PS3.
IF everything goes all right, then a program called Twonky will show the BD’s .m2ts stream file that contains the movie in your Video folder on your hard drive and you can run it on your PS3. It will be in high definition, In ENGLISH, and in 5.1 surround sound.
The issues are many.
1. Have to rip the movie to your hard drive with AnyDVD HD (worked two out of 6 movies for me so far “error reading drive”). Or you can try copying the largest .m2ts file in the stream folder on the BD disk to your hard drive “error reading file”. That works a little better as I can retry the copy. Got one more movie onto the hard drive that way. So 3 out of 6 movies failed just to copy ONE file over to hard drive. (Yes, yes, I know. Submit a “LOG REPORT”. Some work, most don’t. That is MY log!)
2. THEN the .m2ts file has about a 30% chance of playing in English. You need to remux it with TSMuxerGui.exe to see what AC3 language files are there and delete the French, Spanish, and any other AAC files (commented film for instance). Trial and error on that.
3. Sometimes the Audio file is in the TrueHD format. THAT has to be translated into AC3 using a program called TsRemux.
So I have gotten exactly 3 out of 6 BD movies to stream properly to the PS3 from my hard drive. Each of them took from 1 to 4 hours of trial and error to do it. Unfortunately, my first movie went perfectly and I reported it that way. Rude surprise when the rest crapped out. “Live free and Die hard” was my “lucky” movie. “The Prestige”, forget it as I could not rip and could not copy the 0000.m2ts file AT ALL.