Streaming to PS3

Xelene · 26 Jun 2010 at 22:16

Mine stuttered over wireless, using a switch and some 200Mbit Homeplugs fixed it.

5punk3monk3y · 27 Jun 2010 at 04:01

jojothemonkey69 said:
Can anybody answer this related topic. I use ps3mediaserver and it's a great piece of software however how can I add subtitles to the video files. Can I hard sub them? Anyone know?

if they are MKV use the prog I linked to above that adds subs,

and as above I use homeplugs to stream to the ps3

Nanoman · 27 Jun 2010 at 12:02

Frapple said:
PS3 mediaserver doesn't stream MKV files, it can only transcode them. That's why it stutters.

Only way to properly stream IIRC is to share the folder on a Windows 7 machine and install DivX Codec, only ever tried it with 360s though, works perfect

Completely wrong, sure that wasn't Tversity transcoding? PS3 MediaServer streams MKVs fine, wireless just can't provide the bandwidth.

xb8browney · 27 Jun 2010 at 12:05

Frapple said:
PS3 mediaserver doesn't stream MKV files, it can only transcode them. That's why it stutters.

Only way to properly stream IIRC is to share the folder on a Windows 7 machine and install DivX Codec, only ever tried it with 360s though, works perfect

PS3 Media server plays MKV fine. The problem is wireless you need to hardwire the PS3 to play 720p and higher content.

Frapple · 27 Jun 2010 at 12:11

Nanoman said:
Completely wrong. You are confused with Tversity. PS3 MediaServer streams MKVs, wireless just can't provide the bandwidth.

When I last used it, the CPU was actually be utilised quite a lot, hench it was transcoding, not really ideal for a netbook. Good to know they've fixed it though.

DivX+Windows 7 works perfect for me streaming over wireless, even a 18gb 1080p Blade Runner mkv

No CPU usage, no fan noise, no issues.

Nanoman · 27 Jun 2010 at 12:28

Frapple said:
When I last used it, the CPU was actually be utilised quite a lot, hench it was transcoding, not really ideal for a netbook. Good to know they've fixed it though.

DivX+Windows 7 works perfect for me streaming over wireless, even a 18gb 1080p Blade Runner mkv No CPU usage, no fan noise, no issues.

Is media centre reducing the bit-rate of the video though?