XBOX 360, PS3 and Mac OS X

You can install a larger HD or use MediaLink to stream from mac.
http://www.nullriver.com/products/medialink

Connect360 is the best thing to happen. Its works so easy and fast it is great. But I don't know if they support .mp4 and .mpg as all my movies are in .avi format.

cycocelica said:

Connect360 is the best thing to happen. Its works so easy and fast it is great. But I don't know if they support .mp4 and .mpg as all my movies are in .avi format.

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I love it for music (although I wish last.fm worked) and now DivX works, tons of video on my TV, which is much nicer than having it on my small screen through headphones.

It supports H.264, DIVX, XVID, MOV, AVI, WMV, ASF

Pretty much anything that iTunes will play, the 360 will play and more. I have most of my iTunes videos in "High" iPod format, so I can play them on my iPod and stream them to the 360 in the living room.

I've been really happy with Connect360, I only wish that it could see the folder structure or be able to sort videos by show name. If you are streaming iTunes videos, it lists them all alphabetically so I have to remember the name of the episode.

MediaLink (PS3) & Connect360 (Xbox360) are from the same company.
I stream my H.264 movies to my PS3 using MediaLink.

I have connect 360 and it is great. I have a PS3 also but have not used or purchased Medialink (i may give it a try sometime)

Just be aware that anything you rent from iTunes and carries DRM is not going to work with these programs.

I use it for home movies and my own DVD's that I have ripped using Handbrake.

robanga said:

I have connect 360 and it is great. I have a PS3 also but have not used or purchased Medialink (i may give it a try sometime)

Just be aware that anything you rent from iTunes and carries DRM is not going to work with these programs.

I use it for home movies and my own DVD's that I have ripped using Handbrake.

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Same here. I rip my dvds using the AppleTV setting in Handbrake and then watch them on my tv using my 360 and connect360.

litosclone said:

You can install a larger HD or use MediaLink to stream from mac.
http://www.nullriver.com/products/medialink

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Thanks for the link! I never noticed that Nullriver made an app for the PS3. I have been looking at using the PS3 to stream media instead of the 360 (sick of the 360's noise, crashing all the time, etc.) and the idea of Remote Play on my PSP is awesome. Will try this tonight!

It grabs the videos right from your iTunes library.

Vidd said:

Does it access the videos from the iTunes library or do I have to store duplicate files somewhere?
I just found 22GB of duplicated files but maybe I should have kept them.

EDIT: I think wwooden said that it does there but if anyone could confirm that, it'd be great.

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It uses iTunes and your Movies folder together as a source, but you can choose another folder if you want.

does anyone know why PS3 doesnt play handbrake mp4 and mkv files?
Ive tried both disks and streaming it, it does not play those is it the audio settings with handbrake?

juskin said:

does anyone know why PS3 doesnt play handbrake mp4 and mkv files?
Ive tried both disks and streaming it, it does not play those is it the audio settings with handbrake?

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The PS3 doesn't play MKV files and I don't think it will anytime soon. As for MP4 it is very particular about what it accepts. MP4 will not work unless the video codec inside the container is compatible (MP4 is only a container not a video codec). The new version works fine with MP4 files for me if you select AVC / h.264 + AAC which is the second option in the list for MP4 encodes. The first did not work and probably still doesn't.

Connect 360 Connection Issues

When I go to set up my Connect 360, the program recognizes all of my media and my 360 but it won't stream to my console. In the status pane for my media it says "awaiting Xbox 360 connections" even though my 360 is on and connected to my network. I'm sure I'm not the only one that has this problem but everyone I hear from says their setup was so easy and I just wish mine was the same. I tried the whole create the alias to the library thing and that didn't work. Any help would be much obliged.

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The PS3 doesn't play MKV files and I don't think it will anytime soon. As for MP4 it is very particular about what it accepts. MP4 will not work unless the video codec inside the container is compatible (MP4 is only a container not a video codec). The new version works fine with MP4 files for me if you select AVC / h.264 + AAC which is the second option in the list for MP4 encodes. The first did not work and probably still doesn't.

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yeah Ive ripped all of my DVDs using handbrake with the apple TV settings and
now that iVe bought a playstation, I guess IM going to have to re do them with the ps3 settings and when I switch between the settings, the only thing that changes are the audio settings which leads me to believe apple tv has better audio capabilities??

Does anyone know a way of sharing to both a 360 and ps3 without having to buy both apps from nullriver?

steviem said:

Does anyone know a way of sharing to both a 360 and ps3 without having to buy both apps from nullriver?

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TVersity, it's suppose to work with a lot of things, inlcuding psp and ipod touch. This is only for windows right now, but I tried it on BootCamp and I could never get it to work. A Mac version is in the works I think.

Isnt there a free option for sharing with the PS3? Ive copied all the tv shows to it but I would like to stream music (which I do in WMP with windows).

I'm not sure, probably, but I don't have a PS3 so I can't say. I forgot to mention, TVersity is free program and it is open source. googling it should take you to it's webpage. It acts like a media server that many different devices can stream contents from, such as xbox360 and PS3.

I use medialink for PS3, but the damn thing wont play music bought from iTunes, meaning no Daft Punk and 100s other songs. makes me wish I had torrented them...