new ps3 user: what's the best way to setup streaming media with ps3?

[LordSnailz]

I'm a devoted xbmc users and was hoping that the ps3 would serve as an upgrade to play the x264 files on my hdtv.

I've heard of tversity but is there a "cleaner" way instead of installing programs?

Is there something similar to xbmc's way of playing music and having milkdrops running?

TIA!

 

[DivideBYZero]

I have a NAS with a uPNP media sever built in, but I'm having trouble with what codecs I should be using. I have tried encoding to divx, but it's still coming up as unsupported format.

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[erwos]

Requires some setup magic, but it's my favorite so far:
http://fuppes.ulrich-voelkel.de/

 

[Modeps]

http://forums.anandtech.com/me...keyword1=ps3+streaming
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...keyword1=ps3+streaming

 

[aphex]

Is there anything like Medialink but for PC's? Its made by Nullriver. I use medialink on my Macbook and it integrates amazingly well with streaming for the PS3. It integrates directly with my iLife apps (iPhoto/Aperture/iTunes libraries) and they all show up on my PS3 without needing to do a thing, works like a charm and since its fully integrated, everything is always the same as it is on my computer with all updated files, titles, albums, etc.

http://www.nullriver.com/products/medialink

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: Modeps
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...keyword1=ps3+streaming
http://forums.anandtech.com/me...keyword1=ps3+streaming

Those are good but still don't really go into much detail and there is almost nothing regarding encoding settings. Does anybody have any tips or what are you all using?

 

[pennylane]

I just have TVersity. For transcoding, I use ffdshow. It COULD be as simple as just downloading the latest version and installing it. I had some issues though because I was already using ffdshow for other things. Anyway, there were some video on Youtube on how to install both TVersity and ffdshow and get it to work. I can't look right now because I'm at work. You'll know ffdshow is working if you can drag files into TVersity on your computer and TVersity will play them.

I don't know of any way of getting milkdrops to play on the PS3. I actually still use xbmc for playing music and streaming DVD's. The PS3 can't seem to play music gaplessly, especially with transcoded stuff (like FLAC files). XBMC plays those effortlessly.

 

[Thraxen]

I use TVersity as well, but I don't use it for any transcoding. I also haven't run into any problems with DIVX files, but I don't watch that many. I mostly watch remuxed/transcoded MKVs. MKV2VOB is the program you want to use if you need to convert any MKVs.

 

[beat mania]

TVersity never worked for me. I can just have it stream over a divx w/ no transcoding and it would still crash.

 

[XBoxLPU]

WHS box using WMP11 to stream to my PS3 (Wireless G works fine )

Tversity would not work, it would take 30 secs to load a video and after that you could not rewind or fast forward and transcoding was disabled.

 

[Golgatha]

I hope to experiment and answer this question. Marked for later reading.