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Instructions
Connect your external hard drive to your computer.
Download "SmartLabs tsMuxeR" from its website.
Open the downloaded file and drag the "tsMuxer" and tsMuxerGUI" applications to your desktop or another folder where you will keep them. Both applications must be kept in the same folder in order to function.
Double-click "tsMuxerGUI" to open the program.
Click the "Input" tab at the top of the program window.
Click the "Add" button to the right of the empty box under the row of tabs. This brings up a browsing window.
Browse to the MKV file on your computer's hard drive that you want to play on your PS3. Click "Open."
Under the "General Track Options" box, click the checkbox next to the "Change level" dropdown menu. Type "4.1" into the dropdown menu.
In the "Output" section below "General Track Options," click the "M2TS muxing" option. It is the second option from the left.
Select a location to output the file. You can either type a file path into the text field in the "Output" section or click the "Browse" button to its right to browse to the location. It is simplest to choose a location on your external hard drive.
Click the "Start Muxing" button. The program will create a new file at the location that you selected. This process will take several minutes.
Disconnect the external hard drive from your computer and plug it into a USB port on your PS3.
Go to the "Video" tab of the PS3 main menu. The external hard drive is listed as "USB Device," with the manufacturer and model name of the hard drive included in parentheses.
Highlight the external hard drive and press the "Triangle" button. Select "Display All" from the menu that pops up on the right side of the screen.
Navigate to the MKV file that you converted on the external hard drive. Files and folders are listed alphabetically on the PS3 menu.
Highlight the video file and press "X" to begin playback.