[mythtv-users] uPNP Stream to PS3 woes

Tom Lichti redpepperracing at gmail.com
Tue Apr 28 13:16:38 UTC 2009


On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:13 AM, Brian Wood <beww at beww.org> wrote:
> On Monday 27 April 2009 22:18:11 Greg Mitchell wrote:
>> Michael Craven wrote:
>> > I guess I want to try moving the AVC and AAC streams contained in the TS
>> > files (called MPG by Myth) into an MP4 container, replacing the MPG that
>> > MythTV originally created. I'm hoping that will stream successfully to
>> > the PS3...
>>
>> I can't help you out with this - I know the PS3 is very picky about what
>> it will play unfortunately.  You might look into running a separate uPNP
>> server that will transcode on the fly - I don't know of any linux ones,
>> but google may be able to help.
>
> You might look into MediaTomb. I don't think it will transcode on the fly, but
> it will automatically transcode files that show up in the directories it's
> been told to watch. Obviously this requires more storage then OTF
> transcoding, but hard drives are getting cheap.
>

I've heard good things about this package, although I haven't tried it
yet with my PS3: http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/

Tom


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