I’ve been a fan of medialink since the beginning as you know, but there was always one thing missing…..

 

Subtitiles, medialink can’t encode data to stream. I’ve asked them if it would be available some time ago, this is the answer I got:

Subtitles are not supported by the console, the only way to add subtitles would be to re-encode the movie with subtitles burned into the video in the actual image. And realtime encoding isn’t currently possible on the Mac

You can use certain software to re-encode the video by hand and burn the subtitles in, far from ideal.

If you installed medialink on your mac just leave it there, it’s fine for most of the stuff you want to play. However now there is a new kid on the block…..and it’s GREAT!

PS3 Media Server!!!!!!!!!!

 

Wow, it can do a lot of things and it’s being updated pretty often and best of all it’s for FREE

Currently it supports the following features:

Ready to launch and play. No codec packs to install. No folder configuration and pre-parsing or this kind of annoying thing. All your folders are directly browsed by the PS3, there’s an automatic refresh also.

Real-time video transcoding via MEncoder, tsMuxer or Avisynth

DVD ISOs images / VIDEO_TS Folder transcoder

OGG/FLAC/MPC/APE audio transcoding

Thumbnail generation for Videos

You can choose with a virtual folder system your audio/subtitle language on the PS3!

All formats PS3 natively supports: MP3/WMA, JPG/PNG/GIF/TIFF, and all kind of videos (AVI, MP4, TS, M2TS, MPEG) the ps3 is willing to play

Display camera RAWs thumbnails (Canon / Nikon, etc.)

ZIP/RAR files as browsable folders for pictures/audio files

Support for pictures based feeds, such as Flickr and Picasaweb

Internet TV / Web Radio support with VLC, MEncoder or MPlayer

Podcasts audio/ Video feeds support

If you own a linux or windows machine (some people still do ) it also supports :

Lossless 5.1 PCM transcoding with DTS movies

Remux video and remux/reencode all audio tracks to AC3/PCM in real time with tsMuxer

FLAC 96kHz/24bits/5.1 support

 

I’ve installed it on my Mac and it works great, I ran into a few configuration setting that I had to set. I will come back on how to install in a next post.

Whoops almost forgot to place the links to this great software:

To the google code pages please

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