What do you guys use to stream media to your PS3 from your PC? I had downloaded a program called Tversity which was really easy to use and set up, and worked pretty well but apparently it contained a torjan horse according to AVG, I'm not sure if it was just detected as that because of how it works or what but I removed it just to be safe.

Anyways I understand one can use Windows Media player 11 too, but set up seems to be a PITA and it appears it's functionality may not be as good as Tversity. Is there anything else out there I should check out that you guys are using?

Give me the down low please.

 

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i use tversity, love it

 

when i used my ps3 i used nero media home, i think it was that.

although you kind of need a decent speed computer cause it encodes on the fly.

 

Hmmm, I just configured WMP11, So far it seems to Jive with the PS3 pretty well, all the videos I tried played back just fine. On a side not, my sammy 750 recognized the media share but could not play any of the files.

 

I use Tversity without any issues...

No trojans or viruses

 

hweird, looks like I'll have to give it another go.

Question: Do you always have to have Tversity running in order for it to work?

 

can you play divx and xvid files?

i remember when the ps3 was first patched to stream stuff over the network it wouldnt play back xvid and divx files

 

hmm.. from the looks of it, it seems like its just the same as the xbox 360.

 

appears to be playing them just fine, I've played some top gear episodes gran torino and a few other test files. Seems everything has populated fine in the XMB. so far there was just an episode of nip tuck that wouldn't play that I will investigate in the morning.

as for the DLNA with the 750 it seems pretty lame, searching around it appears your pretty much stuck using samsungs piss poor software if you plan to use it. I'll be posting findings about the TV in that thread though.

 

now if only it would play my *.mkv videos.

damn HD TV shows i download dont work : (

porn on the other hand (its in *.wmv)

 

 

Yeah I did the same. The GF did it for me in about 5 minutes and everything works great. Playing music and using the Ps3's sunrise background in the AM makes getting ready for work a lil easier!

 

How do you set up Media Sharing on WMP11?

 

You can convert MKV files easily.

http://www.videohelp.com/tools/mkv2vob

 

Haven't tried yet but see this for .mkv

http://www.avsforum.com/avs-vb/showthread.php?t=1085772

I have Tversity but I'm having an issue with it. I can't see my files. At first it worked but then I changed the folders. It shows the folders in the PS3 but they're empty. And I've refreshed them a few times.

 

Thanks for the link, I'll try that out later today

 

http://www.tomkiss.net/blog/how_to_s..._playstation_3

 

^Thanks man, I'll try it tonight.

 

Good thing the ps3 does this too cause it be annoying having to switch on the 360 just watch some thing. I got a feeling that now that my ps3 is fixed that my 360 is gonna collect dust

 

It will, trust me.

 

i've just been using a shared folder. maybe i should look into ones of these programs

 

Well just to update, I gave tversity another go and it works great, much better than WMP11 now the problem is going to be devising a storage solution for all the media I'm downloading. Looks like I'm going to need a massive RAID array as I have like of 400 DVDs that I want to rip and never see the physical media again. I estimate that if I rip them to a file size of 700mb I'll need about 3TB of space

 

ehh you sure about that?

700MB * 400 movies = 280,000MB or ~280GB

if you rip them as a full DVD assuming that they are all DVD9's then:
8.54GB * 400 movies = 3416GB or ~3.416TB

 

Mental math me. Sweet this will make my plan cheaper and easier.

 

FYI I've been using this and it is great. It's like having windows explorer in your PS3. I just need it now where you could run an open office app.