watch wmv on PS3

[Jskid]

Whenever I put wmv videos on a memorey stick and try playing them in the PS3 it says I need to be connected to the internet. Is there a converter I can use to change it to avi or mp4 or strip the drm? I tried using some converters but they take 8 hours, why so long?

 

[ShawnD1]

Whenever I put wmv videos on a memorey stick and try playing them in the PS3 it says I need to be connected to the internet. Is there a converter I can use to change it to avi or mp4 or strip the drm? I tried using some converters but they take 8 hours, why so long?

The encoding time depends a lot on how you do the encoding. If you set the encoder to use a fixed bit rate (every frame is exactly X bits), then encoding is fast as hell and most computers can easily encode a movie in under 2 hours. If you set a variable bit rate, the encoder needs to calculate all kinds of crap to figure out which frames should be big (lots of different colors) and which frames should be tightly compressed (screen mostly black).

To speed it up, you have 2 options:
-get a faster computer
-use fixed rate single pass video encoding

 

[mmntech]

If you're willing to pay for them, GPGPU based encoders like Cyberlink Media Espresso can be quite a bit faster, depending on your video card of course.