There is a new beta of PS3 Media Server available. Revision 348 includes several bugfixes, better support of alternate streaming clients and a new plugin system. So it is now possible to expand PMS featues without changing PMS source code.
Download PMS rev. 348
- Windows
- Linux
- there are no recent binaries for Mac OS X, please check here…
More infos regarding revision 348 are available at Google Code.
Plugins
Installation
You get plugins as zip-archives. You have to download and extract them and then copy the conent to C:\Program files\PS3 Media Server\plugins. You will either find a config file for your plugin in the directory mentioned before or you can configure it in PMS in general settings tab.
last.fm
The last.fm plugin has to be configured in PMS. You have to fill in username and password. Scrobbling isn’t working at the moment because of a bug. But I think this will be soon fixed. “now playing” is working fine.
Movie Info
The movie info plugin is configured in file movieinfo.conf. You have to setup your movie info database and you can chose to download covers or not.
The versioning of PMS has me confused. You seem to be tracking two code lines. This blog post refers to pms-linux-1.11.348. You have an older blog post that refers to version 1.20.346. Could you explain the difference between the two code lines? Thanks.
Hi David, the real version is mentioned by the 3 digits revision number (rev), e.g. 346 or 348. You can find the changes for that here: http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/source/list
If you create PMS by yourself via compiling the source code there will be an executable / installer created in dist directory, e.g. pms-setup-windows-1.20.exe. This program version sometimes is different to the version available for download. I don’t know why the developers put in a version number in the source code which then sometimes isn’t used for official naming. You have to ask Shagrath… Finally there is no difference between the compiled rev 348 binary pms-setup-windows-1.20.exe and the the binary pms-setup-windows-1.11.exe of rev348 available for download in the forum. It’s only a confusing naming problem.
Hey, good job on this setup, however I can’t get it to connect with my PS3 with Windows 7; although I was able to with Vista. was the revision intended to improve XP/Vista or was it intended for Windows 7 users who had issues?
Hi Rodney,
there’s no version out yet which is optimized for Vista or Win7. One has still to do some workarounds when using these operating systems, e.g. installing it with adiministrative privileges, changing NTFS permissions to get media db working… There’s a guide for installing PMS on Windows 7 in this blog. Also read the faq in PMS forum, there’s an article how to setup Windows firewall properly. In most cases wrong UPNP and firewall settings on PC and/or router are responsible for connection problems.
Also upgrade PMS to latest beta build available here: http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3217