Nullriver MediaLink- What's going on????

[whooleytoo]

I can't believe it's so hard to get this working. Lately, I've tried:

Medialink 2.0b7: Plays some content, but crashes a LOT, so I have to go to the Mac to restart it.

XBMC: Server appears, but even though I've added sources, no files/tracks appear on the PS3.

Yazsoft Playback: Server appears, but only the iTunes content appears. Any files in other folders don't appear, even though I've added them on the Mac.

PS3 Media Server: All the content appears, but I can't play anything (says it's corrupt).

Rivet is the only one that works for me, but it doesn't support transcoding (chances are, it wouldn't work well enough anyway) and it takes too long to launch & scan my content folders - best part of an hour.

 

[jchriis]

I need help because when i tried to connect medialink by pressing start, this note appear:

MediaLink could not start because port 1900 or 9386 is in use. Please quit any application that may be using these ports, wait a few minutes and try again.

Please help.

I had the same thing and it turns out that it was my eye tv remote app that I set up with my iPhone. It used the same port and disabled null river. I think several of the apps for remote use will cause this problem. If you have any try disabling them and see if that works.

 

[sammich]

Medialink 2.0b7: Plays some content, but crashes a LOT, so I have to go to the Mac to restart it.

I've never really had problems with Medialink before, even with versions others had major problems with. But the latest (B7) is giving so much trouble. Sometimes it works fine, but whenever it craps out, it takes my computer out, one time I think it took out my Ethernet connection, my computer would only give me a self assigned IP even across restarts, even power cycled the router+switch. It fixed itself somehow...

Which previous beta worked the best for you guys?

EDIT: just found hundreds of these entries in console

MediaLinkHelper[743] *** -[NSConcreteData initWithBytes:length:copy:freeWhenDone:bytesAreVM:]: absurd length: 18446744073709551615, maximum size: 9223372036854775808 bytes