Amahi - PS3 Media Streming

[RB] · 31 Mar 2010 at 14:49

Hi all,

I've just received all the bits for my new file/streaming server.

I was intentionally going to go with a spare copy of Vista and just setup file sharing and install PS3 Media Server, however Amahi does look very interesting and I quite fancy giving it a run.

I'm just wondering if anyone has any experience with Amahi and PS3 Media Server (or I suppose streaming to PS3 in general).

I've been doing a bit of googling and uShare seems to be cropping up a lot however it doesn't seem to have the same kind of functionality as PS3 Media Server (Or am I wrong?

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Any sharing of experiences of this kind of thing would be great

Cheers,

[RB]

Spooter · 2 Apr 2010 at 10:11

Ps3 media server can do more formats and is the best choice for ps3! It shud run on amahi as the backbone is only fedora I believe! I've used amahi before and it's pretty cool. I think the are activley working on the media streaming capablities.

Xelene · 3 Apr 2010 at 00:53

PS3 Media Server is great, handles almost every format and transcodes into whatever you like. No experience of it on anything but Windows tho.

Edit: (oops and OSX 10.5, and it worked fine on that too - so should be good for Linux)

[RB] · 7 Apr 2010 at 17:01

My impatience got the better of me unfortunately.

Installed Vista until I get a chance to play with Amahi properly.

craptakular · 7 Apr 2010 at 17:09

I use mediatomb to stream on my linux box.

Spooter · 8 Apr 2010 at 21:48

I use mediatomb to stream on my linux box.

Doesn't do hi-def formats though? I also have media tomb and find it reliable. Shame I cant use it for all content though.

malef!c · 9 Apr 2010 at 09:41

I use Amahi to stream to my 360.

I installed uShare but for some reason it groups all media files in one place so when I connect to the server I just get a long list of music, films and photos jumbled together.

Ended up installing DLNA (another app integrated into Amahi) and it works a treat - like I said though, this is for my 360.

Don't have a PS3 so can't guarantee it will work, but for a Linux newbie Amahi is brilliant - slowly moving everything from my Windows based server box to it.

craptakular · 9 Apr 2010 at 09:45

Spooter said:
Doesn't do hi-def formats though? I also have media tomb and find it reliable. Shame I cant use it for all content though.

It does mkv. Probably more, I don't stream a lot of HD tbh.

I also think a lot of it is to do with restrictions of ps3 formats and codecs, after all all these programs do is stream and transcode if needed.