Best... Mac... Media Server... Ever
While I don't work in IT I am very competent using audio-visual devices and I know my way around my Mac fairly well. So long as I don't need to code anything, I'm happy.
I had experience using TVersity on a PC when I lived with a friend that had a PC as his Media Server. Now that I'm on my own I was disappointed that TVersity don't have a Mac version (should be out by the end of the year I'm told, but that doesn't help me know).
I tried Media Tomb and eyeConnect back when I first got my PS3 and found both of them to be unfriendly.
I tried TVMOBiLi... It worked great for sync'ing my iTunes Library, but I could not get it to acknowledge the existence of my external hard drive.
Thanks to
Robert Greens DIY page, I thought I'd check out
Nullriver. You can download it and try it out for 30 mins. By this point, I figured I was happy to pay $20 if I could get it to work in under 30 minutes!
It took less than 5! It works. It works an absolute charm!
After all the heart-ache I've had trying to get my PS3 to play MKV files stored on an external hard drive, this thing is well worth $20!!!
This thing is so easy to use I figure even my Mum will be able to use it (this is REALLY saying something).
So good, that I signed up to this forum just so that I could tell other Mac Users about how awesome Nullriver is.
Best... Twenty... Bucks... Ever!!!!
xoxoxox