How To Play MKV Files On Your Playstation 3 [Tutorial]

**jayyblackheart** · 08-31-2010

This video tutorial shows you how to play MKV Blu-Ray formatted files on your Playstation 3 the right way using a program called MKV2VOB which can be found at http://www.videohelp.com/tools/mkv2vob

Just follow the steps of the tutorial and each and every mkv file you convert will play 100% properly on your system.You can either burn your files on Data Dvds using Nero,or you can stream them from your Computer thats hooked up to a Network.

Hopes this helps every one.

**Ghost-Rhayne** · 08-31-2010

Nice stuff. I use this to convert mah Naruto Shippuuden to watch on PS3, it's a good program.

**jayyblackheart** · 08-31-2010

Yeah i usually use it to convert high ended Anime MKV files.

**Rapture** · 08-31-2010

Wow, this is oddly convenient. I'm downloading some MKV videos right now.

**GotMilk?** · 08-31-2010

just tried it. lol holy moly. this program is soooo fast. converts my 2-3 gig mkv file in maybe 5 min max.

**keefy** · 08-31-2010

I don't even bother converting them i simply stream them direct from PC using PS3 media server.

Have to give it a try to see which I prefer.

**mickice** · 08-31-2010

Originally Posted by GotMilk?

just tried it. lol holy moly. this program is soooo fast. converts my 2-3 gig mkv file in maybe 5 min max.

You should see how fast it is on my brothers quad-core with SSD HDD xD It takes like 60seconds max.

**irish-sid** · 08-31-2010

Originally Posted by keefy

I don't even bother converting them i simply stream them direct from PC using PS3 media server.

Have to give it a try to see which I prefer.

This.

**RawK_Solid** · 09-01-2010

Thanks for the link! +rep

I had forgotten about this program. I hadn't reinstalled it on my new computer.

**fishman360** · 09-01-2010

i enjoy playing this game

**Ghost-Rhayne** · 09-02-2010

Originally Posted by keefy

I don't even bother converting them i simply stream them direct from PC using PS3 media server.

Have to give it a try to see which I prefer.

It seems that program can't stream subtitles which is very unfortunate. But thanks for the link, that program is damn awesome!

**keefy** · 09-02-2010

I tired it and it worked great took abotu 30 seconds to mux but as I have small drive in PS3 I still have it stored on PC so it kind of pointeless for me at this moment.

Originally Posted by ghost_rhayne

It seems that program can't stream subtitles which is very unfortunate. But thanks for the link, that program is damn awesome!

It does stream subs I have had them in movies which annoyed me so used the "definantly dissable subs" option.
Its nt always stright forward so may have to fiddle with various subtitle settings oh and I use the latest Beta not the version linked onthe front page.
You can get the latest beta from here.
http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/view...hp?f=14&t=3217

Check the changelogs there has been a few subtitle fixes.

**Ghost-Rhayne** · 09-02-2010

Originally Posted by keefy

I tired it and it worked great took abotu 30 seconds to mux but as I have small drive in PS3 I still have it stored on PC so it kind of pointeless for me at this moment.

It does stream subs I have had them in movies which annoyed me so used the "definantly dissable subs" option.
Its nt always stright forward so may have to fiddle with various subtitle settings oh and I use the latest Beta not the version linked onthe front page.
You can get the latest beta from here.
http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/view...hp?f=14&t=3217

Check the changelogs there has been a few subtitle fixes.

It still doesn't seem to deal with soft subs, which is generally the kind that anime use. The FAQ says that this is still unsupported.

**A7MAD** · 09-02-2010

I've been doing this for a year now, works great.

i just wish the ps3 had .mkv native support without needing to convert.

**Hedrush** · 09-02-2010

Originally Posted by jayyblackheart

This video tutorial shows you how to play MKV Blu-Ray formatted files on your Playstation 3 the right way using a program called MKV2VOB which can be found at http://www.videohelp.com/tools/mkv2vob

Just follow the steps of the tutorial and each and every mkv file you convert will play 100% properly on your system.You can either burn your files on Data Dvds using Nero,or you can stream them from your Computer thats hooked up to a Network.

Hopes this helps every one.

Welcome to 2 years ago

**Aroc** · 09-06-2010

Originally Posted by ghost_rhayne

It still doesn't seem to deal with soft subs, which is generally the kind that anime use. The FAQ says that this is still unsupported.

I've never had 1 issue playing subs with it and been using it for over a year close to 2 now I think actually,

I can confirm it works for both embedded subs and the ones that are in the same folder .srt I think is there extension.

Also works with files with different audio codecs embedded in them .

Steps
- Go to your ps3media server icon on your ps3
- Navigate to the file you want
- Above the default file will be a folder called Trans coded
- Go in there and there will be differ options subs/no subs/ English / Japanese

I found this out when I DL the Finalfantasy movie in HD and it was Japanese by default, the file was dubbed in English though.
I was angry and then very happy once I found this out lol

This is a must have program for anyone that has movie files on there computers.

**vladTGS** · 09-07-2010

Yeah I used this program a while ago, but I gave up because when I tried converting a 4GB movie it turned out in a 8gb file. This problem was solved however in later updates. I got one question...does the program sacrifice video quality when converting from mkv?

**daLa** · 10-07-2010

bumping this thread to ask if anybody happened to download the video because they took it down.

**mustangless** · 10-08-2010

I have not done this in about a year but this is how I did it. This was done on a pentium dual core (slow) and it took about 15 minutes if I recall. However I never did subtitles or the transcode dts because my receiver supported dts.