Jason L. Froebe - Tech tips and How Tos for Fellow Techies

Run the converter on your media server: ps3_mp3_converter.pl -d {directory}
Copy your mp3 collection wherever you told ps3_mp3_converter.pl to run in.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use File::Basename;
use File::Find ();
use Getopt::Std;
use Linux::Inotify2;
use POE;
$|++;
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our @found_dirs;
sub watch_add_dir {
 my ($heap_ref, $session, $dir_name) = @_;
 $heap_ref->{inotify}->watch($dir_name, IN_CREATE|IN_CLOSE_WRITE, $session->postback("watch_hdlr"));
 print " Watching directory $dir_name\n";
}
sub watch_hdlr {
 my ($heap_ref, $session, $event) = ( $_[HEAP], $_[SESSION], $_[ARG1][0] );
 my $name [...]

After much trial and error, I chose HandbrakeCLI for ripping a dvd to a h.264 mpeg4 file that I can play on my Sony Playstation 3 console. Please note that HandBrake does quite well on live action video but not so good on animation.
% sudo aptitude install build-essential
% sudo aptitude install zlib1g-dev jam yasm
% [...]