Comments on: Java PS3 Media Server for dummies – chapter 4b configuration

By: otmanix

otmanix — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:41:24 +0000

@Dagge
First of all you have to sort out what causes the problem.
1. So you have to start playback of that file on your PC/Notebook with a media player like Windows Media Player or VLC. If that is working fine take next step.
2. Use mediainfo tool to find out what container format, what kind of audio channels, how many audio channels and what audiocodecs are being used.
3. Know your PS3s audio setup! Is PS3 analog or digital connected to your TV or home theatre? If connected digtal is it HDMI or Toslink? How many channels are supported (Stereo, 5.1, 7.1)? What Dolby Digital or DTS standards are supported?
4. Is PMS correctly configured for your PS3s audio setup?
5. It might be possible that your center speaker which mostly used for speech isn’t connected or configured. So test your audio setup!
6. Try different transcoding engines… Maybe there is a problem with default transcoding engine tsmuxer, so try mencoder…
Good luck!

By: Dagge

Dagge — Sun, 27 Nov 2011 12:24:12 +0000

Hi!

Sorry

I use vers. 1.50.0 on a windows server 64 bit NTFS format, cabel to router then to PS3 trough cabel again so no wireless streaming

When I play MKV files I get music and great picture but when persons speak I cant hear it ??? So is it my PS3 thats wrong or do I have to do another set up in Media server program ? Or what kind of information do you want?

Thansk again // Dagge

By: otmanix

otmanix — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 18:23:17 +0000

@Dagge
Your description lacks information.

By: Dagge

Dagge — Thu, 24 Nov 2011 12:39:21 +0000

Hi !

Thanks for a great program.

However I cant get the spoken sound to work ???? Everything else works perfekt :9 Any ideas?

By: Strat Osafe

Strat Osafe — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 22:03:46 +0000

I’m not the sharpest tool in the shed with this type of software set up and options. There fore leaving everything in the default settings except for the transcoding buffer and the ip filter I have had ZERO problems. I think most people are the cause of their own problems just by trying to adjust something they don’t truly understand.
Thank you this great software!

By: PMS pour les nuls – Chapitre 4b – Configuration générale – Paramètres de navigation et de partage | PS3 Media Server By Akhlan

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By: Wim F. Abbenhuis

Wim F. Abbenhuis — Wed, 18 May 2011 21:49:28 +0000

@ lextriplex
In order to get dutch subs you need to fill in like this :

mencoder_sublangs = nl,nld,dut

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:53:26 +0000

Hm, sounds not that well. Ok, I’ll ask in PSM forum but thanx for the reply.

By: otmanix

otmanix — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:39:27 +0000

@Martin
Afaik there’s no support for encoding to WMV9.
You may also ask for that in PMS forum or start a rfe at google code, where PMS project is located.

By: Martin

Martin — Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:42:43 +0000

Thanx for the tutorial!

One question: How do I force PMS to use WMV9 (vcodec=WMV3) instead of WMV8 (vcodec=WMV2) that is used by default when a renderer is set to WMV (e.g. XBox 360) for transcoding in general?
Got a Fritz!Media 8040 here to connect with my old tube and would like to stream my divx, xvid, vob, mpeg2 files but it supports WMV9 only
Also wrote an own renderer config file for it but I just get a black screen and only sound when I try to stream any type of video.
Somebody got a clue?