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banana989

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Registered: 2004-06-03

Posts: 60

Ps3 - Dlna

Howdy folks, once again googling has failed me and I come here for to get my questions answered for real.

My roomate has a PS3 and being the dork I am I want to take advantage of the new firmware (1.8) that says it can play media of of "media servers". I have figured out that it plays through DLNA; I can't find anything about Linux support for DLNA except for the GeeXboX uShare project. Does anybody know of something else or should I start playing w/ GeeXbox uShare?

Thanks!

Last edited by banana989 (2007-05-28 19:21:44)

skottish

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Registered: 2006-06-16

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Re: Ps3 - Dlna

Look into Elisa. It's in AUR: http://elisa.fluendo.com/about/

Last edited by skottish (2007-05-28 20:32:59)

banana989

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Registered: 2004-06-03

Posts: 60

Re: Ps3 - Dlna

No, I'm talking about a server for something like elisa to connect to ...

I've tried MediaTomb (http://mediatomb.cc/), uShare , and GMediaServer (http://www.gnu.org/software/gmediaserver/) and all kind of work. (MediaTomb was probably the easiest b/c it has an AJAX interface.) The PS3 recognizes each one just fine, it even recognizes the folders that I have shared out. Unfortunately that's where it stops working. My mp3 files and the one video file I tried were "unrecognized" by the PS3. From what I can glean from the bits & pieces of info around the net this is because the PS3 doesn't like those MIME types... which is what the aforementioned servers provide for media identification. Apparently you can get around this by transcoding on the fly but that sounds like a hassle.... Images work though

My roommate and I tried using WindowsMedia player (11?) to share out a WMA file and the PS3 saw it, it even attempted to play it but we didn't get any audio.

Hopefully the servers will do a patch or the PS3 will release another firmware upgrade. I'm not really into hooking my computer(s) up to my TV & stereo ... it just looks nasty

NobodySpecial

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Registered: 2007-04-12

Posts: 28

Re: Ps3 - Dlna

Mediatomb has a working PS3 patch here:

http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php? … _id=440751