[Gllug] OT: PS3 media center

[Andrew Davies]

On 25/05/2011 07:54, Henrik Morsing wrote:
> Hi,
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> I got inspired by a thread a week or two ago ending up in discussing the PS3 as a media client.
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> I installed gmediaserver and started it in PS3 mode - all good, comes up on the PS3.
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> However, the PS3 just goes 'Unsupported format' to anything I throw at it! After much testing, I've managed to get it to recognise a JPEG photo, but fail miserably at almost a dozen different sound files. Tried random wav and mp3 files and tried ripping a CD with asunder to present wav, ogg and mp3 files but everything fails.
>
> On the video side it's not much better. All the wmv, mp4, m4v and whatnot failed as well. It wasn't till I mounted a complete DVD from our camcorder that I got it to play something.
>
> Why's it so picky? Does anyone know of a ripper that will get my CDs into a format it will play?
>
> Thanks
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Mediatomb is a general purpose transcoding media server, you'll need to 
edit the config file to allow PS3 support but it's actually documented 
in the file itself which remarks you'll need to remove.
PS3mediaserver is a dedicated DLNA compliant server for the PS3 and so 
should work straight off, it'll also work for other DLNA clients (it 
works on my Samsung TV just fine).

I found Mediatomb first so I've stuck with that but you may find it 
easier to get started with PS3mediaserver. From memory, Mediatomb will 
be more flexible but also rather complicated while PS3mediaserver should 
be up and running pretty quickly.
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