Comments on: PS3 Media Server on Windows 7 – Avisynth, ffdshow, CoreAVC

By: Mike

Mike — Tue, 04 Oct 2011 17:11:39 +0000

/hey
I am having a little problem. I am using pms out of the box with no modifications on a Win 64 system. I am having problems viewing .mkv files. I t shows them and even a preview thumbnail but it wont play them, just shows a black screen. But sometimes it plays older .mkv’s. Any sugestions?

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By: otmanix

otmanix — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 22:05:37 +0000

PMS is a 32bit application which also runs on 64bit versions of Windows. You may run PMS with 64bit version of Java.
Avisynth is 32bit as well, so you have to use 32bit ffdshow and haali which is included in K-lite 32bit.
Nevertheless K-lite 64bit is also useful. For example Windows Media Center is 64bit. It supports more formats if 64bit codecs are installed, it doesn’t use 32bit codecs. The same is for Windows Media Player 64bit. But here you have a workaround – the WMP 32bit is also included in Windows 7 64bit.

By: andy

andy — Sun, 03 Oct 2010 04:26:40 +0000

Otomanix- are you implying that on Windows 7 64 bit you’d need the 32 bit k-lite codec pack as well as the 64 bit if you want to use the 64 bit?
I run into not seeing Haali Media Splitter configuration options if I just use the 64 bit

By: nawaf ajmi

nawaf ajmi — Tue, 11 May 2010 01:11:31 +0000

Hi Otmanix! thanks for all your help so far, you have been awesome. I have one more question, when im playing a few .MKV file the sound will progressively go out of sync. The more time that passes, the more the sound seems to fall behind.

The set of files are .mkv with:
Video: H.264 – resolution 1024:576p :: frame rate 59.9224
Audio: AAC – Sample rate 48 KHz 2 channel

I have tons of files like this and they all seem to be having this problem. Any ideas?

By: otmanix

otmanix — Fri, 07 May 2010 14:50:02 +0000

@nawaf ajmi:
Hi! Either your media file is corrupted or you have a buggy version of mencoder / tsmuxer tool. Try out latest PMS beta (available in PMS forum) or download latest version of these tools here: http://www.smlabs.net/tsmuxer_en.html and http://oss.netfarm.it/mplayer-win32.php

By: nawaf ajmi

nawaf ajmi — Thu, 06 May 2010 23:49:47 +0000

well the problem is now after a few minutes everything gets screwed up for example the sound will go out of sync and it will start to jump frames and speed up and slow down randomly. Im guessing that is from switching off tsmuxer completely is there anything else i can do?

By: nawaf ajmi

nawaf ajmi — Thu, 06 May 2010 23:42:10 +0000

haha wow good call, i took a look and caught this:

[Thread-133] DEBUG 02:33:59.396 Pes packet len too large ( >100Mb). Bad stream or invalid codec speciffed.
[Thread-126] INFO 02:33:59.396 Disconnected pipe: \\.\pipe\1273188837856videoout
[win32/tsMuxeR.exe] DEBUG 02:33:59.399 EOF
[win32/tsMuxeR.exe] TRACE 02:33:59.399 Process e:\Program Files\PS3 Media Server\win32\tsMuxeR.exe has a return code of -2! Maybe an error occured… check the log file
[win32/tsMuxeR.exe] INFO 02:33:59.399 Stopping process: win32/mencoder.exe

I then switched off “Switch to tsMuxeR when 264 vid is ps3 compatible “”"”" and it work! any closing thoughts to add?

By: otmanix

otmanix — Thu, 06 May 2010 22:05:45 +0000

@nawaf ajmi: have a look at protocol file debug.log and you will probably find the cause…

By: nawaf ajmi

nawaf ajmi — Thu, 06 May 2010 21:06:08 +0000

Hey Otmanix maybe you can help me out, ive downloaded all the codec you have recommended but when I try and play a .flv file through PSM onto my ps3 it always says data is corrupt even tho it plays on vlc but not on wmp.

Any ideas?