Difference between mencoder and tsmuxer

[robharper]

you are all wired, yet you have stuttering ?
that's quite rare

Yes, it's driving me crazy. I'm not 100% sure that Mencoder is to blame, but I've watched a few 720 movies with TSMuxer -- no stutter.

I can't figure it out. I've turned off bittorrent, other intensive processes on my comp. Changed my router's firmware. So far, nothing has helped...

[meskibob]

Well, tsmuxer only works if the video codec inside the mkv container (probably H264 for your files) is natively PS3 compatible. If not, then you'll need to use mencoder. When possible, it's currently better to use tsmuxer over mencoder if your system and/or network specs are limiting.

[robharper]

Right, but I can't understand where the bottleneck could be -- my computer is decently fast, and my connection is wired. I used to stream flawlessly with XBMC. (Granted, that was only low-def and not transcoded.)

[Joksi]

Only if you need subtitles, or if the video is encoded in an unsupported way for tsMuxer.