PlayStation 3 compatible MPEG-4 container repacker

martin@wimpress.com (Martin Wimpress) — Thu, 23 Apr 2009 17:09:11 +0000

Some of my mobile phones have been able to record video clips in MPEG-4 format. Sadly some of these clips don’t play on the PlayStation 3 and those that do stutter terribly. I use iplayer-dl to download content from BBC iPlayer. Sadly the files are in a Quicktime container and are not playable on the PlayStation 3.

In order to address both these issues I created a script which extracts the audio and video from an existing MPEG-4 or ISO Media Apple QuickTime container and repacks them in a new MPEG-4 container with optional splitting of the resulting MPEG-4 to maintain FAT32 compatibility. The new MPEG-4 files play just fine on my PlayStation 3. This script works on Ubuntu, should work on any other Linux/Unix flavour and possibly Mac OS X providing you have the required tools installed.

MP4-Repacker

MPEG-4 on Wimpy's World

PlayStation 3 compatible MPEG-4 container repacker