PS3 media center finally working with mediatomb

I finally have media tomb working with dvd/iso images and mkv files.

It took some time to understand the config file (which is a general issue with linux apps), since mediatomb can stream divx movies/mp3 files without transcoding, getting transcoding to work with vlc was trublesome, there are 4 settings that have to match.

First the mime type reported to the ps3 which only seems to accept video/mpeg.

Second the video codec of the transcoded stream, only mpgv seems to be accepted.

Third the audio stream had to be mpga, mp3 doesnt  seem to work

Finally the container of the streamed transcoded media which is ps

That's great cuz i could read that from most tutorials/blogs.

But to get transcoding to actually work the section of  mediatomb config file had to map to a profile that will transcode the file eg:

Here is my full config file: config.xml

And my transcode scripts (using vlc)

For mkv files: mediatomb-transcode-video

For dvd/iso images: mediatomb-transcode-video-iso