Guide - Use PS3 Blu-Ray drive for Apple TV rips

[hitekalex]

(Last Update: Dec 24, 2008)

This guide is an addendum to 'Blu-Ray to Apple TV' (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=541517) guide. It explains how to use your PlayStation 3 Blu-Ray drive to transfer BD movies onto a Mac or a PC for subsequent ripping & Apple TV encoding. The primary purpose here is to avoid the expense of a computer-based Blu-Ray drive for movies rips. If you already have an internal or USB-attached Blu-Ray drive, you can skip this guide and go directly to the 'Blu-Ray to Apple TV' (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=541517) thread.

Hardware/Software needed:

1. Sony Playstation 3
2. USB keyboard & mouse for PS3 (this only needed for install purposes - any PC keyboard/mouse will do)
3. Windows XP/Vista PC or Mac with Parallels (100GB of free disk space recommended)
4. CD-RW or DVD-RW blank disk
5. Gigabit Wired Network
6. SlySoft Virtual CloneDrive (http://static.slysoft.com/SetupVirtualCloneDrive.exe) (free PC app)
7. SlySoft AnyDVD HD (http://static.slysoft.com/SetupAnyDVD.exe) (commercial PC app, ~$100, 21-day trial available)
8. Ubuntu 8.10 for PS3 (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/8.10/release/ubuntu-8.10-alternate-powerpc+ps3.iso) (free open source)

Guide:

1. You have to install Ubuntu Linux onto your PS3. Those who are intimidated by this step or Linux in general - don't worry! Installing other operating system on PS3 is fully supported by Sony, unlike say "patching" Apple TV. Also, installing Ubuntu is a very simple process even if you'd never touched Linux before.

a. Download latest Ubuntu 8.10 PS3 ISO (http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/ports/releases/8.10/release/ubuntu-8.10-alternate-powerpc+ps3.iso) and burn it onto a blank DVD

b. Prepare PS3 partition for Ubuntu. In PS3 game menu, go to [System Settings] > [Format Utility]. Select "Format Hard Disk" and click [Yes]. Choose [Custom] and [Allot 10GB to the Other OS]. Select [Quick Format] and confirm with [Yes]. It will take a few seconds, press 'X' on your game controller to restart the PS3.

c. Insert the disk you burned into the PS3, connect the keyboard & mouse. Go to [System Settings] > [Install Other OS]. Select "Other OS" and hit "Yes" to restart the system.

d. Go to [System Settings] > [Default System] and switch from PS3 to "Other OS". With the Ubuntu disk inserted and Other OS activated, start up your console, and wait for the installer to begin.

e. From here on, the Ubuntu installer will start its thing, just follow all the prompts. It will ask you for few basic things like system name, your user-id/password, time zone, etc. Please ensure that your PS3 is connected to Internet via wired cable. The whole install process should take about 1 hour.


2. Now you need to login into Ubuntu UI and install a few pieces of software. Login into Ubuntu using USB keyboard/mouse, with previously specified user-id & passwiord. Open a Terminal window (Applications -> Accessories -> Terminal), and execute two commands listed below. Note your PS3 has to be connected to the Internet.

a. Install SSH so that you can remotely login into PS3 (after completing this, you can disconnect PS3 keyboard/mouse and do the remaining steps from your main computer thru SSH session into PS3):
sudo apt-get install openssh-server openssh-client

b. Install SMB package - this enables Ubuntu mount Windows shares:
sudo apt-get install smbfs


3. Mount your Windows or Mac SMB share. Note that I have my iMac acting as a SMB server, but it should work the same with XP or Vista:

a. Make a local directory to act as a mount point (replace 'username' with yours)
mkdir /home/username/netshare

b. Mount your SMB share: (replace username/password below with correct values, as well as your server IP and share name):
sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=username,password=password "//192.168.1.10/NetShare/" /home/username/netshare

c. If you want the above share to mount every time you boot your PS3 Ubuntu, add the following line to the end of /etc/fstab file:
//192.168.1.10/NetShare /home/username/netshare smbfs auto,username=username,password=password,uid=username 0 0


4. Now, insert your Blu-Ray disk into the PS3 drive, and dump its contents onto the Network Share folder. The copy process should take about an hour over Gigabit network (I emphasize that a wired Gigabit network is essential for this step):
sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/username/netshare/bd-movie.iso

5. On your Windows PC or Parallels machine, install and run Virtual CloneDrive. Then right-click on the bd-movie.iso file you copied in the previous step, select 'Open with' and 'Mount Files with Virtual CloneDrive'. At this point, the movie ISO should show up as a "virtual" local disk.

6. Open AnyDVD HD and let it do its magic. Follow the Blu-Ray to Apple TV (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=541517) thread for the remaining instructions on how to produce an Apple TV compatible movie file.

Note: to boot your PS3 back into Game OS, issue this command:
sudo boot-game-os

[northy124]

One question, is it possible to use an Ext. HDD instead of a network? (Does it see HFS+? if I can use an Ext.HDD)

[hitekalex]

One question, is it possible to use an Ext. HDD instead of a network? (Does it see HFS+? if I can use an Ext.HDD)

It's possible, but there are a few issues. PS3 will read only FAT32 or EXT3 formatted partitions. Problem with FAT32 is that it imposes 4GB max size file limit.. so your BD rip will end split in bunch of small chunks, which you will later have to stitch back together before you can decrypt.

EXT3 has no file size limitations, but it isn't natively readable by Windows. There's an open source EXT3FS driver out there; I haven't tried it myself, others have reported mixed results with that.

So copying over the network is the easiest/fastest method in my opinion..

[chenks]

have just tried to install the 2 packages, but they don't seem to exist.

error received on both is

package smbfs is not available, but is referred to by another package. this may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted or is only available from another source.

E:Package smbfs has not installation candidate

any suggestions ??
can access internet via firefox in ubuntu so network is fine.

[hitekalex]

have just tried to install the 2 packages, but they don't seem to exist.

error received on both is



any suggestions ??
can access internet via firefox in ubuntu so network is fine.

Check to make sure that you have the proper repositories enabled:

System>Administration>Software Sources

All of the sources need to be checked in the first tab.

[chenks]

are they enabled by default?
i installed everything as per the instructions on here.

[almostinsane]

Wow, this is really cool! Thanks for the guide.

[guywoodman7]

(Last Update: Dec 24, 2008)


4. Now, insert your Blu-Ray disk into the PS3 drive, and dump its contents onto the Network Share folder. The copy process should take about an hour over Gigabit network (I emphasize that a wired Gigabit network is essential for this step):
sudo dd if=/dev/cdrom of=/home/username/netshare/bd-movie.iso



I got up to step for with few issues but when I issue this command it says "dd: opening `dev/cdrom': No such file or directory

I know very little about the command line but I'm great at following instructions so please excuse my lack of knowledge here.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

EDIT** So I tried changing the bd-movie.iso part of the code to the actual name of the bluray disk I'm trying this on. Terminal seems to accept this code, however doesnt do anything after that. I'm just sitting at a blank line now without the command prompt.

Nothing SEEMS to be copying over to my SMB folder as well. Is there supposed to be any sort of progress bar or indication on the copy process?

EDIT2** Well now I see whats going on for the most part. However I think my problem lies in my SMB setup. When I issue the command to dump the disk, it dumps it locally and fills my Ubuntu drive. For some reason I can't get Ubuntu and my Mac to see each other nicely. I've googled and googled but haven't found anything to help. If anyone has some good instructions for me I would be very appreciative

[hitekalex]

Well, sounds like there may be an issue with your SMB mount or write access issue. Before you attempt dumping BD disks - make sure your PS3 can see your mounted computer share and you're able to copy files onto it. Copy a random small file from your PS3 to your share, i.e

cp /etc/hosts /home/[username]/netshare/newfile

And make sure you can see this file on the computer. Yes you need some basic Unix command line familiarity to figure out the issue :)

[guywoodman7]

I appreciate the help so far, but for some reason I just cannot seem to get my SMB folder to mount in Ubuntu as a local folder.

Let me explain what I've done on the mac side.

I'm running 10.5.6, popped into system prefs, went into the sharing section, I have File Sharing checked off, and in the options section, I have 2 options checked off, share with AFP and SMB.

I gave read & write permission to all the users for the shared folder (which isn't probably necessary, but figured it would be the easiest way for SMB to work being I don't know exactly what I'm doing)

So that is all I have done on the mac end.

On the Ubuntu end...

I excute this command:

sudo mount -t smbfs -o username=username,password=password "//192.168.1.10/NetShare/" /home/username/netshare

I also changed the 2nd occurrence of "username" and the 2nd occurrence of "password" to my username and password for my SMB share on my mac. I also changed the IP address and the folder name to the appropriate values.

When I execute this command however terminal gives me a very long winded explanation of mounting devices. The message starts with this...

Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h : print this help
etc...

Then the next part says

"So far the information part. Next the mounting.
The command is 'mount [-t fstype] something somewhere"

This goes on for another 40 lines or so. Is this happening because I am inputing the wrong code or is this supposed to happen?

This is the weird thing...in the Ubuntu Finder window (not sure what its called) if I type my smb path in the location bar, I AM able to mount my Mac shared folder. I can read and write to it on the mac AND ubuntu. My problem lies in making the local ubuntu folder (I am using netshare as well) act as the mount point.

Please help, I've invested many hours into troubleshooting this and I would really like to succeed here.

Thank you!

[guywoodman7]

Disregard the last post! I FINALLY got past mounting my SMB shared folder as a local folder.

To be honest I'm not sure what I did different. I think mounting the smb directory first, and THEN issuing the command to use it as a local folder did it, but I could be totally wrong.

Either way I am dumping my first disc over to my mac, and so far all is looking good.

Lets just hope the next few steps don't gimme issues.

[BrittQ]

Thanks for the guide. Will try it this weekend.

(Be sure to check back to answer all my questions ;) )

[stlredbird]

I'm really excited about doing this but apparently I'm a complete idiot.:D
Needless to say I have a few questions.

Using a PowerMac for this btw, but also have a PC with XP. Both PowerMac and PS3 are hardlined into a router.

I get up to step 3 fine but then I'm apparently getting confused.

1. Are all the terminal commands for when you're logged into the PS3 or for some do you need to be logged into your mac?

2. I'm also confused when I should be using the PS3 IP or the PowerMac IP.

3. and finally, for all instances where you have to enter your username and password do you use your PS3 Ubuntu L/P or your PowerMac(server) L/P? And I guess to add to this one, is the username=username different from the uid=username?

Thanks in advance. At least I got Ubuntu installed. ;)

Also, I know the PS3 can see my MacBook Pro and my Windows PC b/c I can mount them both just going through the normal network program (not terminal). However, my MacBook can't see my PS3 Ubuntu.

Thanks again.

[soup4you2]

anybody happen to get the wireless networking working with WPA2?

[soup4you2]

anybody happen to get the wireless networking working with WPA2?

Got it all working.. thanks for the guide.

[twoodcc]

i'm trying this, and i have both my ps3 and mbp running vista hardwired, and it has been copying for over 8 hours and has copied 24 GB so far. what is going on?

[northy124]

i'm trying this, and i have both my ps3 and mbp running vista hardwired, and it has been copying for over 8 hours and has copied 24 GB so far. what is going on?
It takes time as the disk's are 25/50GB, but 8 hours is excessive. What is it your trying to rip? has it finished and you just haven't noticed?

[twoodcc]

It takes time as the disk's are 25/50GB, but 8 hours is excessive. What is it your trying to rip? has it finished and you just haven't noticed?

it is still going! it's spiderman 3. it's been almost 19 hours now!

[northy124]

That is far to long you have done something wrong.

[twoodcc]

That is far to long you have done something wrong.

i have my ps3 running ubuntu. i ran the updates for it, then installed the software just like this thread says.

i have vista running on my late 2006 macbook pro.

i have both directly connected to my airport extreme (gigabit)

is it possible the the ethernet cables i'm using are bad or something?

[twoodcc]

it is still going! it's spiderman 3. it's been almost 19 hours now!

it ended up taking just under 24 hours to copy 48 GB. i'm trying another movie now, but it's still taking forever. i'm not sure what is going on here. i switched out the Ethernet cable that was hooked up to the ps3, but still the same speeds.

on my mbp with vista, it says the connection is 1.0 Gbps, so i thought that wire was good.

any ideas?

[Volante]

it ended up taking just under 24 hours to copy 48 GB. i'm trying another movie now, but it's still taking forever. i'm not sure what is going on here. i switched out the Ethernet cable that was hooked up to the ps3, but still the same speeds.

on my mbp with vista, it says the connection is 1.0 Gbps, so i thought that wire was good.

any ideas?

I'm not sure if this applies to Vista. But Windows XP Pro and XP Home used different samba-implementations. Home was much slower than pro...

[twoodcc]

I'm not sure if this applies to Vista. But Windows XP Pro and XP Home used different samba-implementations. Home was much slower than pro...

i'm running Vista Business 32-bit.

[twoodcc]

the ps3 has gigabit ethernet?

[twoodcc]

the ps3 has gigabit ethernet?

i'm pretty sure that it does, after what i've read searching. but how can i see my speed in ubuntu?

[Divindude]

i don't think my ps3 has a gigabit. mine is almost 2 years old however.

[Jurwin]

i don't think my ps3 has a gigabit. mine is almost 2 years old however.

All PS3 have gigabit ethernet port.

[twoodcc]

All PS3 have gigabit ethernet port.

ok that's what i thought. now why is it taking me 20 hours to copy 48 GB? could it be ubuntu that's slowing it down? or Vista?

[jhsfosho]

This is very intriguing to me...

Is there a way to do this without a gigabit ethernet router? Can I connect the ps3 directly to my MBP's ethernet port and do internet connection sharing? That would be much handier for me, and a lot of other people as well I'm sure.

[twoodcc]

This is very intriguing to me...

Is there a way to do this without a gigabit ethernet router? Can I connect the ps3 directly to my MBP's ethernet port and do internet connection sharing? That would be much handier for me, and a lot of other people as well I'm sure.

i am not sure. your ps3 would be running ubuntu, so this might be a question over at their forums?

[jhsfosho]

i am not sure. your ps3 would be running ubuntu, so this might be a question over at their forums?

Ok, I will install Ubuntu and check over there. Then report back here with any findings.

[twoodcc]

Ok, I will install Ubuntu and check over there. Then report back here with any findings.

yeah let us know what you find.

also, i decided to try and copy the bd file to the mac side of my mbp, just to see if it was windows.....sure enough. it works great copying to leopard! why can't vista copy files at least close to 1 GB/s? instead of 599 kb/s?

[jhsfosho]

I'm trying to set up a SMB share using OS X on my MBP. I have file sharing, SMB sharing enabled. My ip is 192.168.1.110. What am I not doing right that the ps3 ubuntu can't connect in terminal?

The part with 192.168.1.110 --> Do I need to make a folder called "NetShare"? If so does it go in my home directory or the lowest level of my harddrive?

[jhsfosho]

Disregard the last post! I FINALLY got past mounting my SMB shared folder as a local folder.

To be honest I'm not sure what I did different. I think mounting the smb directory first, and THEN issuing the command to use it as a local folder did it, but I could be totally wrong.

Either way I am dumping my first disc over to my mac, and so far all is looking good.

Lets just hope the next few steps don't gimme issues.

This is the same error/response I am getting when I try to set up the netshare. Could you try to give me any pointers to anything you might have changed? When I connect to the share using the connect to server command under Places, it connects no problem.

[jhsfosho]

I think I got it to work...

I went to this website (http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=280473).

I put the folder "NetShare" in the list of public folders in OS X's file sharing panel. Then with this command I verified Ubuntu could see the share:
smbclient -L 192.168.1.110 -U%

After I saw that "NetShare" was listed, I typed in this command:
sudo smbmount //192.168.1.110/NetShare /home/username/netshare -o username=username,password=mysecretpassword,uid=1000,mask=000

I am now transferring the file to my MBP.


Is there anyway to tell how much progress has been made with the file transfer? Or do I have to right click the file --> get info, then judge how much of the file has been transferred?

[jhsfosho]

Here's an update as far as directly wiring the ethernet port of my MBP to the PS3:

I enabled internet connection sharing in OS X system preferences and restarted my PS3. It showed up as the OS X's router being 192.168.1.2. I then did all of the above steps with mounting the share but with using 192.168.2.1 as the ip address. It seems to be copying at a decent speed. It did about 1 GB of data in 8 minutes. Is that about right?

[Cave Man]

That seems a bit slow. It takes about 30 min for me to transfer a 20 gb file over my 100 mbps AEBSn.

[jhsfosho]

Turns out it is a lot faster for me just to do the transfer over my 100mb/s ethernet network than to mess with internet sharing in OS X. With the 100mb/s connection I was able to transfer 1GB in about 3 minutes.

If anyone else figures out if a 1GB internet sharing connection is possible, please post it.

[twoodcc]

Turns out it is a lot faster for me just to do the transfer over my 100mb/s ethernet network than to mess with internet sharing in OS X. With the 100mb/s connection I was able to transfer 1GB in about 3 minutes.

If anyone else figures out if a 1GB internet sharing connection is possible, please post it.

oh ok. well at you got it working. for some reason in Vista it took me 20 hours to copy 45 GB - basically 600 kb/s. doing everything the same, but copying to leopard, i was doing 9 mb/s. flying!

[littfam]

In Step 3a of the original post, is it possible to direct the transfer to an external HDD via FireWire and if so what would the path be.

[jhsfosho]

In Step 3a of the original post, is it possible to direct the transfer to an external HDD via FireWire and if so what would the path be.

I'm assuming your talking about an external HDD connected to your mac via firewire? You should be able to do that by setting up a folder on the external harddrive to share. Then go into system preferences --> sharing on os X. In the file sharing option you can add the folder on the external HDD to the shared folder list.

As far as setting it up on the ps3 side, you can use the command I used earlier on
smbclient -L 192.168.1.110 -U%
to verify that the share is listed. After that it should just be a matter of using
sudo smbmount //192.168.1.110/NetShare /home/username/netshare -o username=username,password=mysecretpassword,uid=1000,mask=000
Where "NetShare" is the folder on the external HDD that you set in the system preferences.

[northy124]

In Step 3a of the original post, is it possible to direct the transfer to an external HDD via FireWire and if so what would the path be.
If it is HFS+ formatted and connected to the PS3 (can the PS3 take Firewire:confused:):

1. Make a mount point for it, that you can call as you like, e.g. 'hfsplus', where you like (usually on /mnt or /media).
You need to run this commands always with root privileges
sudo mkdir /mnt/hfsplus

2. Mount it, specifying file system, device and mount point
sudo mount -t hfsplus /dev/sda1 /mnt/hfsplus
An icon will appear on your desktop.

3. To unmount the HD
sudo umount /mnt/hfsplus

4. In order to avoid to repeat this step every time you start your computer, edit the file /etc/fstab (the file system table), so that the Drive will be always mounted.
sudo nano /etc/fstab

You can add a line for each partition, you want to be mounted at startup.
Following our example:
# <file system> <mount point> <type> <options> <dump><pass>
/dev/sda1 /mnt/hfsplus hfsplus defaults 0 0
Exit (ctrl+X) and save


The options 'defaults' are 'rw, suid, dev, exec, auto, nouser, and async'.
There are a lot of options that you can specify. May be you can have a look to the man pages of 'mount'
man mount

[littfam]

Another question........in step 3b, what ip address do I use. Where do I find it exactly on my mac or AEBS utility? Do I use the address as I see it in that step. A basic question probably, but am just trying to get all this right.:)

Also steps 3a,b,c are being done on my mac through terminal? And username and password is my admin username and password?

Thanks.

[jhsfosho]

Another question........in step 3b, what ip address do I use. Where do I find it exactly on my mac or AEBS utility? Do I use the address as I see it in that step. A basic question probably, but am just trying to get all this right.:)

The ip address you should use can be found in the System preferences --> Network preference pane. The exact location will depend on your connection type. Assuming your connected via ethernet, click on "ethernet" from the list of connections available. Here it should say "Ethernet is currently active and has the IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX" If your using airport, "AirPort is connected to NETWORK and has the IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX"


Also steps 3a,b,c are being done on my mac through terminal? And username and password is my admin username and password?


Step 3a,b,c are all done on the ps3 in linux's Terminal application. The username and password is your mac's username and password that you need to connect to the shared folder.

[littfam]

When I type the command to copy the bd-movie.iso, it is placing it in the netshare folder I created in my home folder in ubuntu. Of course I only partitioned 10 gigs so it runs out of room. How do I communicate "send the file" to my mac through the network (SMB). I am connected via ethernet through an AEBS that is also connected to the ps3.

I would really appreciate any help:)

[jhsfosho]

When I type the command to copy the bd-movie.iso, it is placing it in the netshare folder I created in my home folder in ubuntu. Of course I only partitioned 10 gigs so it runs out of room. How do I communicate "send the file" to my mac through the network (SMB). I am connected via ethernet through an AEBS that is also connected to the ps3.

I would really appreciate any help:)

When you tell the ps3 to mount the NetShare folder that is shared from your mac, do you see the icon on the desktop of the ps3? If not then something isn't happening correctly.

I was wrong before when I said that steps 3a,b,c where done on the ps3. They can actually be done on either the ps3's terminal application or the mac's terminal application. If done on the mac, you need to know how to SSH into your ps3 before issuing the commands. If you do it on your ps3, then you can use the commands I posted earlier.

[littfam]

No there isn't an icon on the desktop, but there is an icon called netshare in Places/Home Folder. Is the icon mounted on my mac desktop? I guess I am really needing to know how to mount my SMB share (finder/go/connect to server then type smb//what address?) Am I on the right track here? I will try again today and see if I missed something. Thanks for taking the time to answer my questions.

[littfam]

At step 3b in original post is there a particular command I need to type to mount my mac smb share. I get to this point in this guide, and am stuck. I would be one happy camper if someone could please help me. :confused::)

[jhsfosho]

At step 3b in original post is there a particular command I need to type to mount my mac smb share. I get to this point in this guide, and am stuck. I would be one happy camper if someone could please help me. :confused::)

The icon should be on your ps3 linux's desktop. You will need to know the ip address of your mac. Make sure you have SMB sharing enabled in your mac's system preferences. If you type this code into terminal on the ps3, it will tell you if your ps3 is seeing your macs SMB share:

smbclient -L 192.168.1.110 -U%

where 192.168.1.110 is the IP address of your mac. Once you know your ip address and the name of the share on your mac and know that SMB sharing is enabled, type this into the ps3:

sudo smbmount //192.168.1.110/NetShare /home/ps3username/netshare -o username=Macusername,password=myMacssecretpassword,uid=1000,mask=000


Of course, change the ip address again, and the name of "NetShare" to whatever folder you are sharing on your mac. Also
ps3username= whatever name you log into ps3 linux with
Macusername= your mac administrator username
myMacssecretpassword= administrator password

Good luck! Ask if you have any more questions.

[littfam]

ok.....now I am getting "mount error13= Permission denied" Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

I have done everything I can think of. I have typed the code and verified that the folder "shared" is showing up on the Ubuntu side of the network. One weird thing is that if I add a folder to my shared list on my mac, it will not show up on the ubuntu side. My shared and public folders are, so I was trying to use those. Is any of the code commands case sensitive in any way? Boy I want this to work! Also When I type the mount code on page one of this thread, I get a menu with various mounting options. Is there a specific code I need at that point in order to get my shared folder to mount.

[twoodcc]

ok.....now I am getting "mount error13= Permission denied" Refer to the mount.cifs(8) manual page (e.g.man mount.cifs)

I have done everything I can think of. I have typed the code and verified that the folder "shared" is showing up on the Ubuntu side of the network. One weird thing is that if I add a folder to my shared list on my mac, it will not show up on the ubuntu side. My shared and public folders are, so I was trying to use those. Is any of the code commands case sensitive in any way? Boy I want this to work! Also When I type the mount code on page one of this thread, I get a menu with various mounting options. Is there a specific code I need at that point in order to get my shared folder to mount.

are you sure you have SMB sharing enabled on your mac?

[littfam]

Positive. SMB is enabled. Firewall set to allow all incoming, all sharing folders are set for read and write for everyone in the world. I have created a folder in /home/ in ubuntu called "Shared" (This is my "Shared" folder on my mac). I can see my "Shared" folder on my mac on ubuntu with the command line in terminal. As I said, it seems that after I try and mount my share, I get a screen with a lot of information about mount commands and it is waiting for some kind of mount command? Is that right??? Do I have to open a firewall in ubuntu or a sharing prefrance???? Would it matter if I was doing this directly wired through Ethernet from the mac to the ps3 without using a gigabit router (which is what I am doing). Below is the message I get after mounting my share.

Usage: mount -V : print version
mount -h : print this help
etc...

Then the next

"So far the information part. Next the mounting.
The command is 'mount [-t fstype] something somewhere"

This goes on for another 40 lines or so.

[littfam]

I finally got it to work! I removed a space from my mac username. Apparently
Ubuntu doesn't like spaces in this case.

[twoodcc]

I finally got it to work! I removed a space from my mac username. Apparently
Ubuntu doesn't like spaces in this case.

glad you got it to work!

[jhsfosho]

congratulations.

Earlier I figured out how to enable remote desktop, automatic login, and reboot back to the game OS. Now I don't even need a mouse and keyboard connected to my PS3 to rip my blurays and get back to the game OS.

[littfam]

Cool!........Do Tell? :)

[jhsfosho]

It was actually pretty easy.

Remote Desktop:
There is a preference system for enabling remote desktop. I enabled VNC viewing and set a password. I also set the port to the default one. I then connected to it by typing into safari's address bar:
vnc://192.168.1.121:5900
Or whatever your PS3's ip address is. It also showed up as a bonjour device, but that didn't work for some reason.

Automatic login:
I don't remember exactly how I did this, but there was a preference under the System administration. I enabled automatic login for my user account. There was also an option to enable automatic login after a set delay.

Restart Script:
I found a restart script that will boot back up to the game OS without having to type boot-game-os to do it. So when I'm done ripping a bluray, I simply double click this option to boot back to the game OS. It will also set that as the default boot until you change it to boot into "other OS" from the XMB.
Guide: http://psubuntu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=1208
On page 2 of that thread, someone posted a PS3 icon to use for the shortcut that is cool as well.

[iMac22]

Hi, I've followed all of these instructions and was able to mount a folder to my PS3. The folder is on an external USB drive with NTFS partitioning connected to my Mac. I created an ISO of Transformers which came out to about 42 gigabytes. It took about 1hr 1/2.

Now I have a real problem. When I open up Win XP through VMWare Fusion and try to mount this file, my windows XP crashes with a blue screen.
The message says Page Default in non paged area.

Thinking it was an issue with Vmware Fusion I booted straight into win xp through bootcamp. Same thing. I can navigate other files on that drive, but once I click that file, it crashes. Any ideas? I'm stuck :(

[littfam]

I run Parallels and am not really familiar with VM Fusion, but it sounds like possibly a memory allocation problem. How much of your system do you have dedicated to the Virtual Machine? Update Drivers? Are you using your boot camp partition for your virtual machine? If so, the problem could be one in the same? Personally If you only uses XP as a "utility" as I do, I would try dumping XP and re installing it.

[iMac22]

Hi, I've tried expanding virtual memory from 512 to max.
The bootcamp I ran was by natively booting into it. Not using fusion.
Not sure what is the problem. Could it be because my local hard drive space is smaller than the file? (it sits on an external drive)

[littfam]

just curious, Have you upgraded or replaced your RAM recently? Also, how much hard drive space have you dedicated to your boot camp? Really sounds like there is some kind of breakdown with system memory. I would also try laying your .iso file on a different external drive, or putting it on your mac side, and reading and ripping it via a program called MacDrive (free trial available). This is the way I do it. I write the .iso to my mac side and read and rip back to my mac side with this nifty little program. There probably is a positive difference in workflow speed as well.

[smilinmonki666]

Hi,

No problems up until the BluRay rip from the .iso. AnyDVDHD crashes on me everytime. No matter what BD Movie I use... I've used the iso mount & everything. I just can't do it. am I doing something wrong... more to the point has anyone else done this 100% with no problems. converting to .iso fine Could they need decrypting?

Someone help. This is driving me nuts... If only I could use the Mac all the way!

Cheers

[nando2323]

Hi,

No problems up until the BluRay rip from the .iso. AnyDVDHD crashes on me everytime. No matter what BD Movie I use... I've used the iso mount & everything. I just can't do it. am I doing something wrong... more to the point has anyone else done this 100% with no problems. converting to .iso fine Could they need decrypting?

Someone help. This is driving me nuts... If only I could use the Mac all the way!

Cheers

Are you running AnyDVD in Fusion, Parallels or BootCamp? I run it in Fusion and have no problems. Also you do have the mount software running right? Virtual Clone Drive, it's a free download from slysoft.

[smilinmonki666]

Are you running AnyDVD in Fusion, Parallels or BootCamp? I run it in Fusion and have no problems. Also you do have the mount software running right? Virtual Clone Drive, it's a free download from slysoft.

I'm running it on my PC. I'm running everything as I should? I'm trying to use an .iso mount from bluray? AnyDVD picks up the mounted .iso as a drive starts & then fails...?

[emptysoul]

This is great! I didn't think you could use the BD-ROM from Linux on a PS3 so never bothered even thinking about installing it. I'll be giving this a shot tonight.

[chenks]

i just got this set all up and tried a test with a DVD (don't have a BD to hand just now).

it started creating the ISO but then bombed out after 75MB had been written.


dd: reading '/dev/cdrom' : Input/output error
155360+0 records in
155360+0 records out
79544329 bytes (80 MB) copied, 22.1893 s, 3.4 MB/s

any ideas what went wrong?

[chenks]

also, how do i get it to boot unbuntu without user interaction?

at the moment when i choose "other OS" it boots to linux and then waits a "kboot" prompt waiting for me to press enter. once i press enter it continues to boot into ubuntu.

[jhsfosho]

On mine it will automatically boot if I wait about 5 minutes. That is if I don't get tired of waiting and just hit enter on the keyboard anyway. I don't think there is a way to make it automatically boot into ubuntu right away.

[chenks]

well i removed the version of ubuntu that is linked to in the guide, and i downloaded version 9 of ubuntu.

everything now works perfect.
no waiting on the kboot prompt (edit kboot.conf and change the timeout to "1").

[jhsfosho]

What was involved in switching to version 9 of ubuntu? is it different than just upgrading the system?

[randy98mtu]

I'm working on this and had a few questions. I'm struggling right now just to get ubuntu installed. I think I'm having trouble getting a good burn of the ISO. The last one finally started going through the install steps. When it gets to install software though, it gets to 6% and just sits there until it faults out. I just burned another disc that I'm going to try tonight. Hopefully I can finally get ubuntu installed. My questions are about making the iso of the bluray. I don't have gig ethernet, so I was hoping to use an external drive plugged into the PS3. If I have a drive formatted for the Mac, will this work with the PS3? I see earlier in the thread that it must be EXT3, but I'm not sure if the drive I have (a secondary Time Machine drive) is in that form. I think Time Machine makes the drive HFS. I'm not worried about Windows not seeing it, because I'm planning (hoping) to skip AnyDVD and input the ISO file into MakeMKV. From my reading, I think MakeMKV can read ISO files.

Any help on this would be great. I can't afford to buy a BD drive right now, so I'm hoping to use the PS3 to get the BDs I've got to my ATV.

[hitekalex]

I was hoping to use an external drive plugged into the PS3. If I have a drive formatted for the Mac, will this work with the PS3? I see earlier in the thread that it must be EXT3, but I'm not sure if the drive I have (a secondary Time Machine drive) is in that form. I think Time Machine makes the drive HFS.

Nope, PS3 won't read HFS partitions. You need EXT3 formatted drive if you're going to directly attach it to PS3. You will also need EXT3FS MacOS driver to access the drive on the Mac.

[randy98mtu]

Nope, PS3 won't read HFS partitions. You need EXT3 formatted drive if you're going to directly attach it to PS3. You will also need EXT3FS MacOS driver to access the drive on the Mac.

Thanks for the reply. I'll just have to figure out how to set up the SMB then and hope that it isn't too terribly slow over my standard ethernet. It would cost me as much to upgrade my router as it would be to buy a Bluray drive.

[randy98mtu]

This thing is driving me NUTS! I'm down to a sharing problem with my iMac. I was never able to solve this problem with my laptops either. I think I've turned on SMB sharing properly, I enable the accounts I want and enter their password. I can see the right folder from ubuntu because I created a folder in my netshare folder and I can see it from ubuntu. When I try the cp /etc/hosts /home/username/netshare/newfile, I get "Permission denied" As I said earlier, I'm relatively new to Mac and I don't have a great deal of networking know how. Barely enough to get by. I've read several pages on the web about SMB sharing and I think I'm doing it all right, but I keep getting permission denied. Help!

Edit: Just got it to work! I rebooted one more time, and the only thing I think I did different was at the end of the mount command, I put one more / at the end of /home/username/netshare It may also have been something I clicked on the Mac, but I don't think so. Anyway, I'm going to start trying to copy my first disc now.

[OddyOh]

Hello, sorry to dig up an old thread (just a couple months), but I've learned tons from it so far, a tremendous resource. :)

So far, I've got Ubuntu 9.10 up and running on my PS3, no issues there. I am able to mount SMB shares from my Macs. Each machine goes Gigabit ethernet to my router.

When I copy a file from my Mac to the PS3, it goes quickly, anywhere from 5 to 9MB/s (megabytes/second). If I copy a file from the PS3 to the Mac, it's anywhere from 8MB/s to 12MB/s.

The problem is, when I start ripping a Blu-Ray disc to the Mac, it seems really slow. I'm getting 1.3MB/s. At that rate, it'll take 4+ hours to transfer a whole movie! I was expecting about an hour like the Guide suggests.

1.3MB/s happens to be the fastest I can download from the Internet...that's just a coincidence, right?

I can rip the Blu-Ray to the PS3 drive at about 8.5MB/s, but I'd still have to copy it to the Mac afterwards, and the partition is only 10GB, so there's no room.

Any ideas are very much appreciated.

EDIT: Nevermind...turns out Ubuntu can read/write Mac HFS (not-journalled) hard drives...ripping to an external is much faster. Solved!

[scrappy07]

For some reason, I can't even get past step 1e of this process. No one has posted any errors in installing the Ubuntu OS, yet I've run into a brick wall. I'm in uncharted territory, so please forgive my blatant ignorance. :confused:

I'm on a MacBook Pro running OSX 10.6.2.

I've downloaded the Ubuntu OS from the link in the post to my mac desktop and I've now burned 3 different DVDs to act as the startup disk on the PS3:

The first is the original ISO disk image file before it gets mounted as a disk on my desktop.
The second DVD burn contained only the contents of the mounted volume that mac pulls from the downloaded ISO disk image.
For the third DVD, I dragged the mounted volume itself (with all its contents) to the DVD and burned it.

The first DVD containing the burned copy of the original downloaded ISO file was not even recognized by the PS3 when it came time to select "Other OS"
The second DVD got me through that and I was able to select my location and keyboard type. Only now I can't get past this message:

"Incorrect CD-ROM detected.
The CD-ROM drive contains a CD which cannot be used for installation.
Please insert a suitable CD to continue with the installation."

At what point did the CD-ROM become unsuitable? How did I even get this far?

When I try to abort the installation, it says aborting now may leave the OS in an unstable state. And the only instruction I've been given on how to return to the Game OS assumes that I've successfully loaded the Ubuntu OS on the PS3 in order to give that command.

Honestly, at this point the $300 blu-ray drive from MacMall is looking like the tastier option, considering that's what it would cost me to replace my PS3.

Any information would be most appreciated. Thanks!

[scrappy07]

I burned the ISO image to DVD using Disk Utility and that fixed the problem. Mac users, do not burn the ISO file by dragging the ISO file to the DVD icon in the Finder.

[northy124]

5. On your Windows PC or Parallels machine, install and run Virtual CloneDrive. Then right-click on the bd-movie.iso file you copied in the previous step, select 'Open with' and 'Mount Files with Virtual CloneDrive'. At this point, the movie ISO should show up as a "virtual" local disk.

6. Open AnyDVD HD and let it do its magic. Follow the Blu-Ray to Apple TV (http://forums.macrumors.com/showthread.php?t=541517) thread for the remaining instructions on how to produce an Apple TV compatible movie file.
Would I be correct in thinking that these two steps are now removed with the arrival of MakeMKV on OS X?

[nachos4twoo]

I was wondering the same thing. Is it able to avoid installing parallels now using the osx software?

[northy124]

I am going to have a go at it next week after I free up some space on my HDD's so I'll come back an report then ;)

[xparaparafreakx]

Correction to the guide.

As of the PS3 Firmware update of 3.21, Other OS has been removed. You will not be able to install linux and do any of these cool things listed on the guide.