PS3 Media Server Beta Update v1.20 Build 412 is Now Available

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Following up on their previous update, today PlayStation 3 developer happy.neko has announced that PS3 Media Server 1.60.0 is officially released for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X!

Download: https://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/files/pms-setup-windows-1.60.0.exe / https://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/files/pms-generic-linux-unix-1.60.0.tgz / https://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/files/pms-macosx-1.60.0.dmg / Other PS3 Media Server Builds / http://www.spirton.com/svn/PS3MS-SB/

PS3 Media Server 1.60.0 Changelog:

• Added support for PGS (Blu-ray) subtitles
• Added support for TX3G (MPEG-4 Timed Text) subtitles
• Added support for VobSub (DVD) subtitles in MP4 container
• Better handling of embedded SSA/ASS subs styling
• Fixed audio track selection for MP4s and MOVs
• Fixed DV videos detection
• Added support for WebM videos downloaded from YouTube
• Optimized CBRVideoBitrate value for Panasonic TVs (thanks, ExSport!)
• Added new renderer: Sony SMP-N100 (thanks, mrw1986 and guillepalao!)
• Localized audio and subtitle priority defaults
• Language updates: Catalan translation update (thanks, aseques!) and Simplified Chinese translation update (thanks, lovenemesis!)

ABC

Netflix - surely you can just browse to netflix site in the PS3 browser? I don't have a netflix account so haven't tried it. (It *might* be possible to stream netflix stuff via PS3MediaServer with a plugin, but you'd have to have a look on their forums)

PS3MediaServer is for streaming media files from your PC/network to the PS3 in a format that the PS3 can play. e.g. You have .divx/.xvid/.avi/.mkv/.mpg/.mpeg/other video files on your PC, these can be steamed to the PS3 with on-the-fly transcoding to a format the ps3 can play (if ps3 supports the format, they are streamed directly with no transcoding).

So for example, you have a large collection of (owned!!) DVD's which you've ripped to video files on your pc, you also have some (copyright free!!) downloaded video's on your PC - you can setup your PC with PS3MediaServer and then browse your video's via the PS3's "Video" menu. (also works for MP3's and Photos!)

It can be a little bit of a pain to get configured, but once setup correctly it works very well - i use it with my network storage server to serve all my home movies, family pics etc. I can browse them on my PS3, Android phone, bravia TV in the lounge, Other tv in the bedroom, laptop etc

It's a DNLA server (have a look on wikipedia or just google it). Hope this helps?!




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Following up on their previous update, this weekend PlayStation 3 developer chocolateboy has announced that PS3 Media Server 1.70.1 is officially released for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X!

Download: https://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/files/pms-setup-windows-1.70.1.exe / https://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/files/pms-generic-linux-unix-1.70.0.tgz / https://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/files/pms-macosx-1.70.1.dmg / Other PS3 Media Server Builds / http://www.spirton.com/svn/PS3MS-SB/

PS3 Media Server 1.70.1 Changelog:

• Add new default web video engine: FFMpeg Web Video
• Add support for new web protocols: mmsh:// and mmst://
• Sort files alphanumerically by default e.g. Episode 2 before Episode 10
• Auto encoding detection of non UTF-8 external subtitles for Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Korean and Japanese languages (leave "Subtitles codepage" option blank)
• Improved handling of UTF-8 external subtitles
• Localized #--TRANSCODE--# folder name
• PMS.conf: Added transcode_folder_name option to allow #--TRANSCODE--# folder name to be customized (issue GC963)
• Make example PMS.conf behave more like built-in defaults
• Restore maximum buffer size to 600 MB (was 400 MB)
• Prevented image distortion on some DLNA clients with "Keep AC-3 track" option enabled
• Don't show entries for disabled engines in #--TRANSCODE--# folder
• Allow Traces tab panel to auto-scroll (thanks, LordQuackstar!)
• Revert changes to SMP-N100.conf that conflict with Sony Blu-ray players and break MKV support (thanks, mrw1986)
• Replaced ImageMagick with Thumbnailator for thumbnail generation
• Fix FFmpeg engine's handling of unsupported custom options (thanks, ajamess)
• Fixed FFmpeg command line arguments used by tsMuxeR video
• Added new renderer: Yamaha RX-A1010 (thanks, merelin)
• Language updates: Updated Dutch translation (thanks, leroy), Updated Bulgarian translation (thanks, JORDITO), Fix DNLA 2114 errors when scanning non-readable subfolders with "hide empty folders" enabled
• Renderers: Deprecate misnamed TranscodeVideo profile MPEGAC3: use MPEGPSAC3 instead, Document and clean up TranscodeVideo and TranscodeAudio profiles, Linux tarball: fix "cannot find tsMuxeR" error
• MEncoder: disable AC-3 remux if audio track has delay, disable DTS and LPCM remuxing if tsMuxeR engine is unavailable

Lots of changes this time!

Notes:

Version: The Windows and Mac OS X versions are 1.70.1 rather than 1.70.0 due to a packaging issue spotted during release. There is no functional difference between 1.70.0 and 1.70.1.

Upgrade Notes:

Issues with the sample PMS.conf file bundled with PMS 1.53.0 to 1.60.0:

Prior to this release, the sample PMS.conf bundled with PMS since 1.53.0 (June 2012) set values different to the built-in defaults. If you created a PMS.conf by copying one of these sample files to your profile directory, it should be removed and settings should be re-entered and saved in the GUI.

Changes to default settings:

Two default settings have been changed in this release: the default web video engine (FFmpeg Web Video) and the default file sort order (alphanumeric). As a result of these changes, you are advised to back up and remove your old PMS.conf and re-enter and save your settings (if any) in the GUI.

Alternatively (e.g. if you have a large number of customizations you wish to preserve), the new defaults can be enabled in PMS.conf by removing the following properties (if they exist):

    engines =
    key_sort_method =

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Following up on their last update, today PlayStation 3 developers Raptor399 and chocolateboy have announced that PS3 Media Server 1.71.0 is officially released for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X!

Download: https://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/files/pms-setup-windows-1.71.0.exe / https://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/files/pms-generic-linux-unix-1.71.0.tgz / https://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/files/pms-macosx-1.71.0.dmg / Other PS3 Media Server Builds / http://www.spirton.com/svn/PS3MS-SB/

PS3 Media Server 1.71.0 Changelog:

Windows:

• Updated MEncoder and MPlayer to SB41
• Updated ffmpeg to 1.0 (Zeranoe Build 2012-10-10)
• Fixed file permissions bug

Mac OS X subtitles:

• Changed audio/subtitle defaults to accept anything
• Removed fontconfig from MEncoder for improved subs compatibility

Renderers:

• Improved Android.conf video support
• Added support for Samsung SMT-G7400 (UPC Horizon)
• Fixed bug that prevented Galaxy Nexus pictures displaying

Language updates:

• Updated Chinese Traditional translation (thanks, mcc!)
• Added Turkish icon

Misc:

• Updated MediaInfo to 0.7.60 (GC1508)
• Updated h2 database to 1.3.168 (thanks, valib!)
• Improve handling of initialization errors
• Fixed possible error while loading iPhoto library (GC1523)
• Fixed bug where disabled engines could be selected in the #--TRANSCODE--# folder
• Added options for renderer-specific file name formats
• Added ffmpeg build script

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Cheers for the update PSPSwampy, +Rep and it's now mainpaged also!

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its saying no renderers were found, any advice ?

[FiREFLOOd]

Hi guys,

maybe you can help me with this problem. The problem is the following:

I have a PS3 CHECHK01 upgraded to 500 gb running KMEAW CFW 3.55. Before I used FileZilla to FTP the movies to my internal hard disk, only until I saw that PS Media Server was build also for Mac OSX. So since the first version for Mac/OSX I used it to stream the movies to my Playstation 3.

I own a Macbook Pro 2.3 ghz Intel Core i5 with 4 gb internal memory. But yesterday after upgrading to 1.70.1 the movies are staggering very worse. No fluid screen any more.

I tried many things such as downgrading to the older version 1.53/1.54, change some preferences but nothing seems to work.
I tried it with direct LAN (always used this) and also over my wireless network.

Does anybody know how to reset PSM to default settings on Mac OSX or knows a solution?

Thanks guys!

Allright, I fixed it. Deleted the old conf file on Mac OSX and forced the LAN network in PMS.

So everything is back up working again

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Nice to hear ya got it fixed and +Rep FiREFLOOd for sharing the solution in case anyone else has this issue.

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Following up on their previous update, today PlayStation 3 developers Raptor399 and chocolateboy have announced that PS3 Media Server 1.72.0 is officially released for Windows, Linux and Mac OS X!

Download: https://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/files/pms-setup-windows-1.72.0.exe / https://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/files/pms-generic-linux-unix-1.72.0.tgz / https://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/files/pms-macosx-1.72.0.dmg / Other PS3 Media Server Builds / http://www.spirton.com/svn/PS3MS-SB/

PS3 Media Server 1.72.0 Changelog:

Regressions:

• Fixed bug that occurred when using ShowDVDTitleDuration
• Fixed bug that caused embedded subtitles to be displayed when subtitles are disabled
• Fixed bug in handling of filenames with embedded $ characters

Engines:

• Removed option to automatically switch to tsMuxeR (available manually via the #--TRANSCODE--# folder)

Upgrade Notes:

For 1.70.0 and above:

• Just uninstall the older version and install the newer one.

For versions prior to 1.70.0:

• It is recommended to back up and remove your old PMS.conf and re-enter and save your settings (if any) in the GUI. Alternatively (e.g. if you have a large number of customizations you wish to preserve), see the upgrade notes for previous major releases (e.g. 1.50.0, 1.60.0 &c.) for migration instructions.

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