Convert the .mkv file to .mp4 with mkv2vob first (http://www.videohelp.com/tools/mkv2vob) and then use whichever method gets you the data. Off your hard disk will work for sure, don't know about your other methods and minimum requirements.

 

I wanted to avoid playing it off the hard drive. I can easily convert the files to .m2ts format but because the file will be larger than 4 gigs I may have to split the files up. I guess it is better than worry about video lag during streaming.

 

Use mkv2vob as suggested and output to mp4 or mpg (I prefer mpg) and stream off your PC with TVersity. My old PC was a P4 2.8GHz with 2GB RAM and doing it that way for me worked flawlessly.

 

As Sleemo says, you won't have to worry about lagging when you stream through TVersity. Perhaps that's a worry if TVersity needs to transcode a file not understood by the PS3. But when you use mkv2vob, the .vob file that's created doesn't need to be transcoded.

 

What about .m2ts? I assume no transcoding needs to be performed in this case also. M2ts is the file extension in the Bluray format. Really VOB and m2ts are just the container, so no encoding is really peformed when the original file is converted from .mkv.

And will it do it in DD5.1?

 

With mkv2vob, the default is to create a vob file. You can make it an m2ts if you want. All the same thing when it comes to playing on the PS3. mkv2vob doesn't transcode mkv files. Basically just changes the container. The key though, is the DD5.1 is left intact. Actually, sometimes mkv2vob takes a little longer, if the mkv has DTS audio. It does the process of changing DTS to DD5.1, which the PS3 can play.

 

While I am no expert on the matter I was having some issues streaming my guilty pleasure (Anime Bleach) which is encoded as a H264 in a .avi (or so they say) from my PC to the PS3. I installed Tversity and did a few tweaks as per a thread I found and am outputting it to the PS3 in MPEG2 and it works like a charm. Looks great too, no loss of quality at all. Only odd thing was that the PS3 is reporting each file as 1.4GB and they are only 170MB each. Compression can't possibly be that good can it?

This may or may not have ANYTHING to do with your questions but I thought I'd share.

 

I will give it a try and see what happens.

Thanks for the info.

 

Found the thread again if it helps:

http://weblog.bbzzdd.com/2007/08/04/optimizing-tversity-for-the-ps3-part-i/

I'm not one for following destructions line by line, I just installed the latest Tversity, made the options the same as suggested and edited the profiles.xml to output as MPEG2. I didn't bother with uninstalling all my current codec packs etc.

 

M2TS also works but you have to remove the "S" and name it with an M2T extension for the PS3 to see it. I've used tsMuxerGUI to convert MKV to M2TS when MKV2VOB was in it's earlier releases and if it had a problem doing the conversion. tsMuxerGUI ran faster on my slower machine back then, now it's about the same.