Now the PlayStation 3 is a brilliant media center as it can pretty much play any format you would ever desire and the ease of copying files combined with accessible expandable storage makes it nearly perfect. Although as you might or might not already know the PlayStation 3 can not playback the standard HD format that is .mkv.
Matroska is slowly becoming the norm for high definition content and it’s a bit let down that Sony haven’t supported it. Luckily there is a fairly easy work around that you can use through the process of ReMuxing.
Remuxing in this instance takes the video and audio streams and combines them into one mixed file. This means that you’ll end up with a playable file but without any visible loss of quality. This file, which can be a .vob or .mpeg depending on your preference, can then be played back on your PlayStation 3 instantly. It’s also incredibly quick to remux your file to this format as I’ve rarely waited more than a couple ... More »
For those of you who are waiting for Sony to release a new firmware with support for the Matroska video container, 3r1c over at Doom9 might have the tool to make your wait bearable.
His tool MKV2VOB will remux MKV video with x264/AC3 to a VOB file that is playable by the PS3. It also supports subtitles since a while back.
Remuxing is a very quick way of making an mkv video playable on the PS3 as compared to converting which can be an extremely time consuming process, especially for HD material.
Check it out here!
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