PS3 Media Server is a video streaming and transcoding app. It allows you to stream most video files to your Playstation 3. Video game consoles have limited video format support. Although this application was designed for the PS3, I have read that the Xbox 360 seems to work with it as well.
Once you get this application set up, you should be able to see your computer on the Playstation 3 or Xbox 360 acting as a media server. You will then be able to see any files that you share using PS3 Media Server on your Playstation 3. There is great support for video and audio files, and there are features that I have been looking for for a long time. One of this features is subtitles. I used Connect 360 for a while, but it just lacks subtitle support, among other features. PS3 Media Server is able to add subtitles even to MKV files on the PS3.
PS3 Media Server should work out of the box. If it doesn't, there are a couple of guides on the official forums that should help you diagnose your problem and solve it. I didn't get it to work with my 360, maybe because of a network problem, since I was unable to ping it for starters.
The configuration is done via the app and it isn't too hard. PS3 Media Server is also available for Linux and Windows.
v1.70 [Sep 5, 2012]
- Add new default web video engine: FFMpeg Web Video
- Add support for new web protocols: mmsh:// and mmst://
- Sort files alphanumerically by default e.g. Episode 2 before Episode 10
- Auto encoding detection of non UTF-8 external subtitles for Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Chinese, Korean and Japanese languages (leave "Subtitles codepage" option blank)
- Improved handling of UTF-8 external subtitles
- Localized #--TRANSCODE--# folder name
- PMS.conf:
- Added transcode_folder_name option to allow #--TRANSCODE--# folder name to be customized (issue GC963)
- Make example PMS.conf behave more like built-in defaults
- Restore maximum buffer size to 600 MB (was 400 MB)
- Prevented image distortion on some DLNA clients with "Keep AC-3 track" option enabled
- Don't show entries for disabled engines in #--TRANSCODE--# folder
- Allow Traces tab panel to auto-scroll (thanks, LordQuackstar!)
- Revert changes to SMP-N100.conf that conflict with Sony Blu-ray players and break MKV support (thanks, mrw1986)
- Replaced ImageMagick with Thumbnailator for thumbnail generation
- Fix FFmpeg engine's handling of unsupported custom options (thanks, ajamess)
- Fixed FFmpeg command line arguments used by tsMuxeR video
- Added new renderer: Yamaha RX-A1010 (thanks, merelin)
- Language updates:
- Updated Dutch translation (thanks, leroy)
- Updated Bulgarian translation (thanks, JORDITO)
- Fix DNLA 2114 errors when scanning non-readable subfolders with "hide empty folders" enabled
- Renderers:
- Deprecate misnamed TranscodeVideo profile MPEGAC3: use MPEGPSAC3 instead
- Document and clean up TranscodeVideo and TranscodeAudio profiles
- Linux tarball: fix "cannot find tsMuxeR" error
- MEncoder:
- disable AC-3 remux if audio track has delay
- disable DTS and LPCM remuxing if tsMuxeR engine is unavailable
