Does audio just not work for you? Make sure that you have AAC selected in the audio settings. Otherwise any H.264 AVI file should play just fine on it.
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Nullriver releases MediaLink for PS3 for $20!
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Does audio just not work for you? Make sure that you have AAC selected in the audio settings. Otherwise any H.264 AVI file should play just fine on it.
Ed
AVI? Mine are made for the AppleTV so they are .m4v. I guess I could try changing the file extension to see if I can trick the PS3 into playing it. Right now I just get a black screen.
P-Worm
Use the Apple TV settings and then change format to AVI, change codec to AVC/H.264/AC-3 Audio
That works for me
Heh. The problem is that I have already spent the time ripping 299 movies and 188 TV shows. I don't really want to do that again.
P-Worm
P-Worm
Heh. The problem is that I have already spent the time ripping 299 movies and 188 TV shows. I don't really want to do that again.
P-Worm
Updates to the current mpeg, AVC and divx codecs will come with the next update, maybe hang tight till then
Ed
I figured. Sony wants to take over the living room and it would definately help their cause to support everything. I'll just have to hang tight for the time being.
P-Worm
P-Worm
I finally got the thing to work....all of my files are working(the ones I've checked) I'll play around with the photos and movie section later.
Well at least PS3 owners got something to work with. Has anyone tried using http://66stage.com/ on the PS3?
Bless
Well at least PS3 owners got something to work with. Has anyone tried using http://66stage.com/ on the PS3?
Bless
I downloaded the trial and I'm impressed. Works just like the Xbox one, yet I'm thinking of selling my 360, so I won't use that anymore.
I may actually purchase this as it's a good price, not unreasonable like $100 or something crazy like that.
I may actually purchase this as it's a good price, not unreasonable like $100 or something crazy like that.
I'm looking at running an ethernet cable from the PS3 to my iMac for streaming video etc. using Medialink. The iMac and the PS3 are both connected wirelessly to a Modem/Router which is wired to a PowerMac. Is it possible to put ethernet directly from the iMac to the PS3 or do I have to go through the Modem?
Cheers
Cheers
I don't know if I am the only having issues but I have a wired connection and if I encode using the PS3 settings in handbrake the files will skip. I bought the PS3 because i read about this software, but I am bummed because the 50+ movies i have encoded with avi will not work but worked awesome with my Phillips dvd player (usb thumb).
Can anyone tell me how to take a Video_TS folder and encode to make it stream and look good for the PS3?
I have tried using Visual Hub to re-encode the 50+ avi files i have but cant get a good visual/stream. Any suggestions?
I am going to try the Apple TV encoding with handbrake right now.
I am fairly new to OS X but these boards are great thanks for the help.
You bought a PS3 for media streaming? I would have looked into an Apple TV if you are strictly using it for media streaming.
ok, that makes a lot more sense now. are you saying that you got it for 279? If so do you mind letting me know how? i would like to pick one up for a blu ray player as well.
ok, that makes a lot more sense now. are you saying that you got it for 279? If so do you mind letting me know how? i would like to pick one up for a blu ray player as well.
go to slickdeals.net, you need to get the 5% amazon trick (make a new amazon account) and sign up for the sony card. I recieved my credit 4 days after my purchase. Its all covered in this thread.
link
read the thread. the PS3 is pretty cool and you can add linux for free and it wont void the warranty. Hope that helps.
Waste of $20?
I downloaded the trial, didn't work. Opened up all the ports as suggested, didn't work. Ended up buying the license, as someone mentioned the trial could have expired. So now I have (or should have) a fully working copy of MediaLink, doesn't work.
Is there something I need to do on the PS3 itself? Everytime I try to search for Media Server, I keep getting nada. But MediaLink is recognizing my PS3.
Any suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
I downloaded the trial, didn't work. Opened up all the ports as suggested, didn't work. Ended up buying the license, as someone mentioned the trial could have expired. So now I have (or should have) a fully working copy of MediaLink, doesn't work.
Is there something I need to do on the PS3 itself? Everytime I try to search for Media Server, I keep getting nada. But MediaLink is recognizing my PS3.
Any suggestions or tips would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
Gotta be something with the router. Mine worked without me having to do anything.
So I finally got the PS3 to recognize my Mac. I see all the files. But when I try to play any MP3 or Video, it just hangs. Then I get a DLNA protocol error. And "null" pops up in the device window of MediaLink. This is all new territory for me. Have no clue what's going on now.
One thing to keep in mind, although you can 'see' all of the files on the PS3, you have to be on the right section of the XMB. Make sure you're under video to watch movies and music tab to listen to iTunes.
Hope that helps.
Thanks for the tip iZoom, but unfortunately that doesn't help either. That's already what I was doing. I've read from the Playstation forums that the issue could be within the latest PS3 firmware itself. Some have claimed that prior to updating to v2.1, there streaming video worked fine. Any validity to this?
Should I be contacting Sony or Nullriver?
PS3 WiFi sux
So here's how it's worked out so far.
I tried logging in as usual Mac came up on PS3, MediaLink showed PS3 in Devices. And as before, I can see the files, but they just wouldn't play, kept getting the DLNA error, and then the message "unsupported file format" came up. Then the null came up on the Devices window.
But here's were it gets wonky, I turned off Firewall as suggested by Nullriver. Picked a song from the list, it hung for a bit, got the DLNA error, but then a few seconds later the song played. Then I tried playing an AVI file, got the DLNA error message again, but after a few seconds of blank screen the video played. Fast forwarding caused the whole thing to crash. Well, at least I think it crashed because a minute went by and nothing was happening. So I thought maybe I should hardwire it to the gaming adapter, taking into account opinions about the PS3 wifi being sub-par. I also turned the Firewall back on in my Mac.
After reconfiguring the console to wired network connection, MediaLink connected okay, played a song, got the DLNA error, but still played, and same with the video. Fast forward was lagged, but it didn't crash. However, some AVIs that I've burned onto disc plays fine on my standalone DVD/Divx player, but says it's unsupported when streaming to the console.
So it seems like the problem was with the wi-fi connection. Hardwiring to the gaming adapter even fixed the slow connection with Playstation Store. I'm back at normal speed. And can download directly to the console. And I haven't been disconnected yet. Wondering if the wi-fi issue with the PS3 is hardware or software related.
So here's how it's worked out so far.
I tried logging in as usual Mac came up on PS3, MediaLink showed PS3 in Devices. And as before, I can see the files, but they just wouldn't play, kept getting the DLNA error, and then the message "unsupported file format" came up. Then the null came up on the Devices window.
But here's were it gets wonky, I turned off Firewall as suggested by Nullriver. Picked a song from the list, it hung for a bit, got the DLNA error, but then a few seconds later the song played. Then I tried playing an AVI file, got the DLNA error message again, but after a few seconds of blank screen the video played. Fast forwarding caused the whole thing to crash. Well, at least I think it crashed because a minute went by and nothing was happening. So I thought maybe I should hardwire it to the gaming adapter, taking into account opinions about the PS3 wifi being sub-par. I also turned the Firewall back on in my Mac.
After reconfiguring the console to wired network connection, MediaLink connected okay, played a song, got the DLNA error, but still played, and same with the video. Fast forward was lagged, but it didn't crash. However, some AVIs that I've burned onto disc plays fine on my standalone DVD/Divx player, but says it's unsupported when streaming to the console.
So it seems like the problem was with the wi-fi connection. Hardwiring to the gaming adapter even fixed the slow connection with Playstation Store. I'm back at normal speed. And can download directly to the console. And I haven't been disconnected yet. Wondering if the wi-fi issue with the PS3 is hardware or software related.
I feel left out
I got MediaLink, and am running iTunes 7.6.2(9)
OS X 10.4.11
iPhoto '06 (Im getting '08 soon)
my problem is medialink, It will not find the PS3. Everything loads, but "Devices" remains blank
I have a D-Link Router with UPNP Enabled, what else could be causing this?
I got MediaLink, and am running iTunes 7.6.2(9)
OS X 10.4.11
iPhoto '06 (Im getting '08 soon)
my problem is medialink, It will not find the PS3. Everything loads, but "Devices" remains blank
I have a D-Link Router with UPNP Enabled, what else could be causing this?
You also have to configure your PS3. Make your router's IP address as your primary, and enable UPnP.
I need some additional help with this..
What do you mean by make the router IP as primary?
set the playstation IP as the router ip? rather than a network address given by the router
I just entered the mac and surrounding PCs into the "workgroup" domain so they can work together
the PS3 should pick that up
I just cannot find the MAC at all on the PS3. I am running Tiger 10.4.11 with iLife '08, and MediaLink is ON. It even shows the PS3 in devices section.
Firewall Log shows the following:
Initializing NRCDSSourceContainer: MLFoldersSource...
2008-05-08 00:45:44.186 System Preferences[2886] Initializing NRCDSSourceContainer: MLiPhotoSource...
2008-05-08 00:45:44.198 System Preferences[2886] Initializing NRCDSSourceContainer: MLiTunesSource...
2008-05-08 00:45:44.335 System Preferences[2886] *** Illegal NSTableView data source (<DNDArrayController: 0xd60ec90>[object class: NSString, number of selected objects: 0]). Must implement numberOfRowsInTableView: and tableView
bjectValueForTableColumn:row:2008-05-08 00:45:46.887 System Preferences[2886] CFLog (0):
CFPropertyListCreateFromXMLData(): plist parse failed; the data is not proper UTF-8. The file name for this data could be:
/Library/PreferencePanes/MediaLink.prefPane/Contents/Info.plist
I can't get this software to work to save my life.
My network is pretty basic. Linksys wireless-G router. PS3. Macbook.
Medialink software.
No static IPs because last time I did that (I gave the PS3 a static IP), it screwed up my whole network. So DHCP for me.
I also have an Xbox 360 and having Connect360 installed on my Macbook. Apparently the new version of Medialink was supposed to fix any port conflicts between Medialink and Connect360.
But when my PS3 scans for media servers, it cannot find any.
The Medialink software recognizes the PS3 on the network though. UGH!
Any help?
My network is pretty basic. Linksys wireless-G router. PS3. Macbook.
Medialink software.
No static IPs because last time I did that (I gave the PS3 a static IP), it screwed up my whole network. So DHCP for me.
I also have an Xbox 360 and having Connect360 installed on my Macbook. Apparently the new version of Medialink was supposed to fix any port conflicts between Medialink and Connect360.
But when my PS3 scans for media servers, it cannot find any.
The Medialink software recognizes the PS3 on the network though. UGH!
Any help?