Upnp Mac –> PS3 mediaservers

Posted on September 12th, 2008 by checky

Tonight I decided to find out what kind of media servers that use Upnp (universal plug and play) there are for a Mac that support the Playstation 3. To watch video and play music on your PS3 streaming it to the Mac.

If you’ve been reading this blog for a while you know I currently use Medialink which is fine, but maybe there are good alternatives?

Here is the list

Mediatomb (open source)

Fink (open source, not sure if it supports the PS3)

TwonkeyMedia (commercial, 30 day trial)

Medialink (commercial, 30 minute trial)

Allegro media server (commercial, time limited trial)

 

That’s it for now , I’ll add more later ;-) Don’t be shy to report more media servers for the Mac that support the PS3

Filed under: mac, software |

3 Comments

  1. mvip ~ Dec 11, 2008 at 5:51 am

    FYI, Fink is not a media server. It’s a tool for OS X that allows you to easily install applications. Also worth noting is that you can use Fink to install Media Tomb for OS X.

  2. peter weyer ~ Jan 17, 2010 at 3:07 am

    try using ‘Java PS3 Media Server for Windows’

    from the readme:
    -by shagrath “Hi there… you will find on this page an experimental upnp media server I’ve written in Java (so you can also use it on Linux), with precious help from MPlayer/MEncoder, FFMpeg,AVISynth eventually, and currently using with my Playstation3…. I was quite fed up with TVersity and others servers I’ve tried as none of them easily supports subtitles and 1080p transcode,as well as any kind of files I want to play without worrying about ps3 compatibility’…Ready to launch and play. No codec packs to install. No folder configuration and pre-parsing or this kind of annoying thing.I’m currently transcoding in real-time and no quality loss, 1080p mkv files. The drawback is the high bitrate your network must support: with the default settings,specific scenes with a lot of details (e.g.: zoom on a newspaper article) can have bitrates near 100mb/s, so gigabit is maybe useful. However, you can limit the bitrate, for wireless 720p playback for example. Check The FAQ!”
    links- download http://code.google.com/ps3mediaserver/downloads/list
    wiki http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PS3_Media_Server

  3. peter weyer ~ Jan 17, 2010 at 3:10 am

    sorry first link was typo here u go
    donwload: http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/downloads/list

Discussion | Share Feedback




« »