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hi guys,

i had actually asked a similar question in the game section but i reckon this is actually where i will find which software is best to stream media from my macbook to my ps3...

i have demo'd nullriver medialink and it works ok but i ran out of demo time and hadn't explored it fully, basically i want to know if overall this is the weapon of choice?

I remember a while back that EVH said which one he used but i can't find the thread...
 
Connect36.... oh, the PS3.
:p

I don't have a PS3 so can't help with the streaming but if Nullriver made Medialink as goos as they've done with Connect360, then you've wasted your demo and should risk it by buying their Medialink :)
 
bummer, i bought the medialink software but my movies (specifically naruto) dont work :(

hate it when these things are selective, why doesn't everything just work :(

is this down to the software or the ps3?
 
QuiKsiLVeR said:
hate it when these things are selective, why doesn't everything just work :(
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The amount of firewalls, routers and general settings to jump through, never mind codec and resolution issues, its a surprise the things work at all. I could never get streaming working right so I ended up buying a 250GB usb drive to shuttle stuff to the PS3. Sneakernet basically.

Things are getting better but the whole area is a bit immature at the moment.
 
QuiKsiLVeR said:
bummer, i bought the medialink software but my movies (specifically naruto) dont work :(

hate it when these things are selective, why doesn't everything just work :(

is this down to the software or the ps3?
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Depending on the format afaik.
The 360 initially didn't support my formats, xvid till the Autumn update...
 
Supported file formats (PlayStation 3)


Photos/images

* JPEG (DCF 2.0/Exif 2.21 compliant)
* TIFF
* BMP
* GIF
* PNG (transparency is supported)


Music/audio

* Memory Stick Audio Format (ATRAC) (Enable playback in System Settings)
* MP3 (MPEG-1/2 Audio Layer 3)
* MP4 (MPEG-4 AAC)
* WAVE (Linear PCM)
* WMA (Enable playback in System Settings)

Tip: Songs bought through iTunes (.m4p files) are protected/locked with DRM and can not be played on the PS3.
However, “iTunes Plus” songs are DRM-free and are playable.


Video

* Memory Stick Video Format
o MPEG-4 SP (AAC LC)
o H.264/MPEG-4 AVC Main Profile (AAC LC)
* MP4 file format
o H.264/MPEG-4 AVC High Profile (AAC LC)
* MPEG-1 (MPEG Audio Layer 2)
* MPEG-2 PS (MPEG2 Audio Layer 2, AAC LC, AC3(Dolby Digital), LPCM)
* MPEG-2 TS (MPEG2 Audio Layer 2)
* AVI
o Motion JPEG (Linear PCM)
o Motion JPEG (μ-Law)
* AVCHD (.m2ts / .mts)
* DivX / Xvid
* WMV (Enable playback in System Settings)
o VC-1 (WMA Standard V2)
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It's just easier to encode them in one of the above formats, and put them on via USB stick/CD/DVD
 
EVH said:
It's just easier to encode them in one of the above formats, and put them on via USB stick/CD/DVD
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yeah i did read that before buying and most of my stuff is .avi (xvid) which is what naruto is i believe (not completely sure how to check), but is still says format incompatible... weird :confused:

either way, at least the music and pictures work well, i'll just have to continue watching the movies that dont work on my computer... dont really wanna be doing loads of transcoding...

tis a good peice of software tho :)
 
XVID's come in many different wrappers.

I believe the PS3 only supports 1 type, it sounds like you've accidently encoded it using an older XVID wrapper which isn't supported.

Best way to check is to open the videos in QuickTime and open the video inspector.
 
ahh ok, i'll look at the quicktime inspector, although there aint much i can do about it the naruto episodes are released weekly on the tinternet i havn't encoded them...
 
had a play with a few more movies and the like and i havn't had a single video file work on the ps3 through medialink...

its no doubt down to the wrapper thing like EVH said but is this a problem with the PS3 or the streaming software? i.e. is it even worth trying some other streaming packages?
 
If it's the wrapper then you'll need to re-encode them, Try using iSquint to do this.

You could say the problem is the PS3's lack of support for the popular "download" filetypes.
 
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