PS3 Media Center

[minendo]

What is the best program to run on WinXP SP3 to serve as a media center for my PS3? Main use will be to view mpeg-4 movies.

 

[Trader05]

i use media player 11, its easy to setup and it works perfectly for me streaming and copying over files.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: Trader05
i use media player 11, its easy to setup and it works perfectly for me streaming and copying over files.

Does it support mpeg-4?

 

[Thraxen]

I use TVersity. I have it running along side PlayOn at the moment and they seem to play nicely together. I used WMP11 for a while, but it wouldn't stream MP4 files without some registry hacks, so I gave up on it.

 

[mugs]

TVersity++

 

[KaOTiK]

TVersity

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: KaOTiK
TVersity

Installed and working great. Just doesn't seem as though my wireless can handle the streaming. Ripped a DVD (~2.0GB file size) and it suffers from choppy playback. CPU usage averages less than 4% which leads me to believe it is the wireless network.

 

[KaOTiK]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: KaOTiK
TVersity

Installed and working great. Just doesn't seem as though my wireless can handle the streaming. Ripped a DVD (~2.0GB file size) and it suffers from choppy playback. CPU usage averages less than 4% which leads me to believe it is the wireless network.

It is, I have mine setup for quality and not performance and it never has a hiccup. Maybe fiddle with the settings and lower the quality some, probably won't notice any difference if you turned it down a little anyways.

 

[aphex]

I switched to an 802.11n network so my macbook could connect to my PS3 and stream faster (the PS3 is hardwired). Since I upgraded I no longer get the buffering problems I was having previously.

 

[LordSnailz]

I'm new to TVersity ... for some reason, I haven't nailed it down yet, sometimes my ps3 would see TVersity and sometimes not. Both pc and ps3 are on a lan connection.
Does it matter which one is turned on first? I think I've tried both and sometimes it just won't see it

Anyone experienced the same thing before?

 

[XBoxLPU]

Originally posted by: Trader05
i use media player 11, its easy to setup and it works perfectly for me streaming and copying over files.

This what I use on a Windows Home Server box with zero issues. TVersity had too much lag to use. Also on a wireless connection

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: Trader05
i use media player 11, its easy to setup and it works perfectly for me streaming and copying over files.

Does it support mpeg-4?

Originally posted by: Thraxen
I use TVersity. I have it running along side PlayOn at the moment and they seem to play nicely together. I used WMP11 for a while, but it wouldn't stream MP4 files without some registry hacks, so I gave up on it.

This doesn't seem too complicated to setup:

http://www.afterdawn.com/guide..._to_play_mp4_files.cfm

Though I haven't tested to see if this works

 

[nakedfrog]

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: KaOTiK
TVersity

Installed and working great. Just doesn't seem as though my wireless can handle the streaming. Ripped a DVD (~2.0GB file size) and it suffers from choppy playback. CPU usage averages less than 4% which leads me to believe it is the wireless network.

I had problems until I switched over to wired.

 

[minendo]

Originally posted by: nakedfrog

Originally posted by: minendo

Originally posted by: KaOTiK
TVersity

Installed and working great. Just doesn't seem as though my wireless can handle the streaming. Ripped a DVD (~2.0GB file size) and it suffers from choppy playback. CPU usage averages less than 4% which leads me to believe it is the wireless network.

I had problems until I switched over to wired.

I'm planning on hard wiring it tonight. I plan to just move the computer to my living room and use my 42" LCD as the monitor.