Monroville said:
I will post the info from tehparadox MKV files tomorrow, but the ones I am having problems with are the ones in the correct aspect (1280x720p). The TS files of MOTEL HELL and THE GATE (1440x1080i) transferred perfectly and play without any problems. It is the actual conversion of the MKV files that is the issue, since THE GATE and MOTEL HELL were already in the TS format. It's GETTING to the TS format that is my issue.

I also know that the ALIEN and HOWARD THE DUCK MKV files are in the 5.1 format - I tried converting them to 4.0 and 4.1. 4.0 seems to result in an unplayable video file, whereas the 4.1 results in a green bar appearing on the bottom of the image, with the movie shoved to the upper part of the screen. I will take some screen caps to show you what I mean later on...

I can see what your problem is right there Monroville. These files are level 5.1 which the PS3 will not play. TSMuxer will only attempt to change the level to 4.1 it cannot fully convert it. It will work with some files but it all depends on how the original was encoded. If you are muxing a HD file to Blu-Ray DVD-9 it has to conform strictly to the HD vertical resolution (720 or 1080) if the black bars have been cropped then there is no video data for the black areas and the PS3 will shift the video to the top part of the screen and the bottom section will have the green bar. The way around this is just to use TSMuxer to convert the mkv to a TS file then burn it to a DVD as a data file then the PS3 will play it without shifting the image and it will not have the green bar.

Your best bet instead of wasting DL-DVD's is to mux a small section of the video first (using tsmuxers split and cut feature) and popping it on a usb stick or external hard drive to test on the PS3. If the video is level 5.1 then there's a strong possibility that you will have to re-encode the video first to get it to work but TSMuxer is successful in many cases.