124w ago - Today Logic-Sunrise reports that several members of Spanish site Elotrolado are currently working on a PS3 Media Center with MKV and NTFS support.

To quote, roughly translated: Our friends on the other side of the Pyrenees from the forum Elotrolado we have a project that many expect. This is a media center with support MKV and NTFS.

Authors at the head of the project are: AdriHades: Colabor and Beta testing, Chaky: Creator of the GUI, The_marioga: Creator of the file system and analysis of XML for configuration. Some features:

• Audio playback
  
• Playing Videos
  
• Picture Playback
  
• Support NTFS and MKV
  

Current project:

• Ongoing: libntfs for NTFS support and libmatroska for playing MKV files.
  
• Progress 40% and no date of publication.
  

Here is a screenshot of the GUI at the moment (This is not the graphical interface of the final product, it is only there to show the existence of the project.)

162w ago - Today madshaun1984 shared a video of the XBMC Media Center running on Sony's PlayStation 3 entertainment system via PS3 Linux.

For those unaware, XBMC is a free and open source cross-platform media player and home entertainment system software with a 10-foot user interface designed for the living-room TV.

Its graphical user interface allows the user to easily manage video, photos, podcasts, and music from a computer, optical disk, local network, and the Internet using a remote control.

To quote: "I managed to compile and get running XBMC on my PS3 via OtherOS and Ubuntu10.04.

Proof enough I think that the PS3 is more than capable to run it (although its extremely slow at the moment, it can be improved upon )"

Check out the video below!





Tutorial - Install Ubuntu/CellSDK/XBMC on the PS3:

You will need a usb keyboard and mouse for this install.

First off decide whether you want to install on a usb hdd or the PS3's internal hdd (internal hdd will need to be formatted and a partition assigned to OtherOS).

Then get a copy of the OtherOS.bld for petitboot and put it on a usb stick at /PS3/OTHEROS/otheros.bld

187w ago - It's been quite some time since we had an update on PS3 MegaBox (or similar frontends) primarily because Sony removed the OtherOS and Linux options from the PS3 Slim.

However, yesterday DemonHades (linked above) experimented with installing the latest PS3 MegaBox Linux Media Center via USB pendrive.

That being said, those who wish to revisit PS3 MegaBox can grab the recently released version 2.1 Final (1.3GB in size) from Spanish site Megalandia along with some compatibility and multilanguage fixes.

For those curious, PS3 MegaBox v2.1 has the following features, roughly translated:

• It turns your PlayStation 3 into a complete system multimedia.
• It takes advantage of to the maximum the possibilities your video console.
• It transforms the television into your main maintenance center. It enjoys like in your PC, but from the comfort of your hall.
• It accedes to Internet, electronic mail, films and videos in network, series, music... unloading thousands of gratuitous games.