Playstation 3 Must Haves / Tips

[Venom]

Get the original Sony Blueray remote. It's by far the best thing I have purchased for my PS3.

[Rafa]

Ok, well I tried it the normal way according to the playstation forums. You open up windows media player on your computer and there should be a tab towards the top left that says "stream." Click on it, then click on "more streaming options." Then change the network from "local network" to "all networks." It should show an "unknown device" which is the PS3. Just make sure it's allowed. It seems to work fine for me. Pretty easy. Much easier than the X-box.

EDIT: Also, you might need to go to your start menu and click on "Control Panel" then right below "Network and Internet options" it should say "choose homegroup and sharing options." Check the media types you want to share and check "stream to all devices on home network."

That should be it.

trust me man...the one Momo and I posted blows any other media server for ps3 out of the water.

[jdgregory84]

trust me man...the one Momo and I posted blows any other media server for ps3 out of the water.

Played a few videos and songs on it and it worked like a charm. I'm not sure what better means in this case but everything worked 100%. What's the difference between the players?

[pHILSANITY07]

i cant wait for ace combat 7 assault horizon in feburary. i loved playing those on the ps2

[Rafa]

Played a few videos and songs on it and it worked like a charm. I'm not sure what better means in this case but everything worked 100%. What's the difference between the players?

Ps3MS is a dedicated media streaming program. You can't play anything on it or view anything on PC. It's strictly for streaming. Only file format that it can not stream that I know of is the VC-1(blu ray) format, which is a Microsoft type I think. Other than that, it will stream all other audio,video, and picture format. It's a cut and dry setup. There are advance settings you can change. As soon as you install it, it sees the playstation and you're ready to go. Of course firewall comes into play if you're having issues, which I think all you have to do is add program to the list.

[GT Fanatic]

Go here....http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/downloads/list

Download "pms-setup-windows-1.10.51.exe " that's stable working one.

Install it and open it up...should look like this.





Then go to Navigation tab, which is where you tell it to look for your files.




If done right...on your ps3, you should see this under each section of the menu




give me a shout if you need help

I use this to stream my pics,music, and my blu ray collection

I did this and the streaming is skipping like every 15 seconds on songs. Anyway to make this stop?

[roliath]

I did this and the streaming is skipping like every 15 seconds on songs. Anyway to make this stop?

streaming over wireless?
whats your pc's usage when streaming a file?

[Rafa]

Mine is hardwired, so not sure if it's a wireless issue. Maybe a setting or something. Was reading and someone mentioned the output setting for the music in the ps3 settings...

change the output to 48khz on ps3. Mine is set there already. I would have to look at mine when I get home. Try that and see if it helps. I've never had any issue with streaming music when I installed this the 1st time. My issue was streaming different types of video at 1st.

System Settings > Music Settings > Output Audio Sampling >> 48khz <<

[bjtheman1]

I DL'd that program but it can't find my PS3?

[jdgregory84]

I DL'd that program but it can't find my PS3?

Dude, just do it the way I posted it. It takes 5 minutes and it works. I'm sure their way is better, but until you figure out how to do it, this way should suffice.

[Rafa]

Just shoot me a pm and I can probably help get it going.

[Geor!]

Digging up an old thread. Just started messing with this media server and cannot figure out a way to put the media into a shuffle mode. Is there a way to do this?

[papapepper]

Gran Turismo 5
God of War 3
Metal Gear Solid 5

finally bought a ps3 since the weather was so bad and was stuck at home.... I'm at level 17 on GT5 any tips?

[STANGGT40]

download and install ps3 media server on your computer.

stream movies and music to your ps3 from your computer like a boss.

you can do that without ps3 media server, but ps3 media server lets you search through your whole computer as opposed to just having a limited view. it actually lets you go through all of the folders. i pretty much exclusively use my ps3 as a media server, to play movies, music, etc from my computer...one of the recent updates installed a program called "cinivia" (or something like that), so you torrent folks might have some audio issues when watching downloaded movies. i don't know how it does it, but it looks for some sort of code or something, and if it doesn't find it, it turns off the audio feed.

[momo]

you can do that without ps3 media server, but ps3 media server lets you search through your whole computer as opposed to just having a limited view. it actually lets you go through all of the folders. i pretty much exclusively use my ps3 as a media server, to play movies, music, etc from my computer...one of the recent updates installed a program called "cinivia" (or something like that), so you torrent folks might have some audio issues when watching downloaded movies. i don't know how it does it, but it looks for some sort of code or something, and if it doesn't find it, it turns off the audio feed.

yea, native streaming is decent but ps3 media server will let you stream more formats.

the main thing (for the HD torrenting folks) being .MKV files. those are muxed to the ps3 as .m2ts, a file it can understand.
other non-native formats are transcoded on the fly.