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emgonzalez · 20-06-2007

Quote:

Originally Posted by farside847

I did another test this morning on a smaller track on my dvd.
I named the file test.mp4 and left all the default settings in dvdfab.

When I try to play the video through my network (via sharing in windows
media player) the file is identified as mpeg2, has the wrong video length,
and fails with the corrupted file error.

But, when I copy the same file to a usb jumpdrive and plug it into the
ps3 it is identified as AAC, has the correct length, and it plays!

So now I am looking into the compatibility of shared mp4 files. I think the
ps3 does not read them correctly, or windows media player does not share
them correctly.

Mpeg2 files work though (I have tested a few) over the network. Would it
be possible to set up dvdfab to save the file as a mpeg2 instead? Is there a
big reason why mp4 was chosen over mpeg2?

thanks!

mp4 has far better compression than mpeg2. It's several years of r+D plus all this new processing power in decompression that's at your service. there's no reason to go with mp2 if you can afford mp4, in the same way as you wouldn't want a excel 95 if you can afford excel 2007.

As for sharing over the network... it's not dvdfab, it's your sharing software, whether it is tversity or what. The settings are probably set so as to share over the network using mpeg2 and perform on the fly transcoding.