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Making AppleTV Encoded Video Files PlayStation 3 Compatible

Using Handbrake to rip DVDs, I use a slight customization of the default AppleTV encoding settings. I find the quality-to-filesize ratio is great for nearly zero setup time. But when trying to play the encoded .mp4 video files on my PlayStation 3, the video format was unrecognized.

Running this¹ over a movie.mp4 AppleTV encoded movie fixes this issue, while still maintaining compatibility with AppleTV.

perl -pi.bak -e "s|(avcC.{3}).(.{7}).|1x292x29|" movie.mp4

In the case where I have ripped one of my DVDs of TV show episodes and am left with multiple .mp4 files requiring this fix, I run this script from within the folder

#!/usr/bin/bash

for file in `find . -type f -name *.mp4`;
do
    perl -pi.bak -e "s|(avcC.{3}).(.{7}).|1x292x29|" $file;
done;