Streaming media to your Playstation 3 (PS3)
Ok, so you have a computer with all your photos, videos, and audio that sits in your computer room. You have a Playstation 3 in your living room hooked up to your gorgeous 1080p LCD TV. How do you enable all this content to be played from your computer in the back room all the way in your living room? Through streaming of course.
If you have a Windows PC (I don’t anymore), you can just use Windows Media Player 11, it will be recognized by the Playstation 3 as a (DLNA) Media Server, and you can stream your photos, videos and audio easily. For the Mac, you will have to purchase or find a DLNA compatible server. I chose TwonkyVision’s TwonkyMedia. As of version 4.4.3.1, TwonkyMedia can serve DivX / Xvid files to the Playstation 3. Previously I will have had to convert my DivX files to h.264 using VisualHub (using the AppleTV profile), which took a long time. Note that to get DivX support, you will have to update your Playstation 3 to firmware version 2.10.
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You can stream media directly to your Playstation 3 without using transcoding software that hogs all your system resources. You simply set up Apache on the machine with all your files on it and use PS3′s inuilt web browser. See http://www.gredil.net/tech/ps3_media_streaming.html for more info. Only supports files that PS3 can handle but these days that’s pretty much everything. Works like a dream.
Thanks, that is a good alternative! A bit more involved for most people, but good if you want to save some money.
On OS X, just enable Web Sharing in System Preferences and put the files in your home folder (under subfolder Sites), and access your home directory on your machine using its ip address (ie http://192.168.1.2/~username).