How To: Watch HD H264 .MKV files on your PS3
Although the PS3 comes with 720p and 1080p support, some of the high definition downloadable content comes with a .mkv extension that isn’t accepted by the PS3. Rather than wasting time converting these files to lesser quality .divx or .avi formats, you can instead use this quick program to convert the files into a .m2ts format, lose no quality, and have your HD movies playing on your PS3 in under 2 minutes. This is all done quickly and easily with software called tsMuxeR. I’ll provide a detailed walkthrough regarding how to use the software.
- Download tsMuxeR from SmartLabs here.
- Extract the folder to wherever you’d like and run tsMuxeRGUI.exe.
- Make sure you are on the “Input” tab. Select “add” and find your media file you wish to convert.
- In the “Tracks” window there should be 1-2 tracks shown, make sure they are both left checked.
- Under the Output option (still on the Input tab), make sure that “M2TS muxing” is selected, M2TS is the format that the Playstation 3 can view.
- When all of this is complete your tsMuxeRGUI should look something like this:
- Click “Start Muxing” and your project will begin. This process will take anywhere from 1 second->90 seconds depending on the length of your file and the speed of your processor.
- tsMuxeR will play a nice little jingle to let you know when your project has finished.
- Load the new .m2ts file into your PS3 and watch it! Feel free to delete the old .mkv version of the file to save space.
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Thank you for this tip, i will be able after a long time of searching to watch movies on my PS3 easily !
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This works great but the only problem with this is when MKV videos are encoded with a DTS track. even though it has DTS-HD for blu-ray playback finally on the ps3. it wont work with files with DTS included in a container such as m2ts which works natively with the ps3 as this program wont change the audio track (if only!). The PS3 is a very picky media system and because of these niggling problems makes it very hard for someone to choose it over a popcorn hour as an example. Esp if you are primarily going to use it as a media device.
You can obviously use another program to rip the audio out and change it but that adds more time and can be so fidgety that its not even worth it especially if you are a newbie. I know I’ve tried.
nonetheless, thanks for the tutorial. maybe one for helping re-encode the DTS track? otherwise for a lot of people you either can find somewhere that offers a friendly PS3 encoded movie file or use ps3mediaserver to re-encode on the fly but its not the most convenient way to do things unfortunately.