Comments on: PS3 Media Server on Windows 7

By: All Day

All Day — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 03:30:37 +0000

Hello. I have ps3 media server on my pc which contains all of my media files. My brother uses that computer regularly and I would like to listen to that music off of my macbook pro. I have been trying to pull up the media server, but I couldn’t see in the Finder or in iTunes. Could anyone please help? Any feedback at all would be appreciated. Thanks!

By: otmanix

otmanix — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 08:58:04 +0000

@Brian
Who cares? It’s not my software. Nowadays I even don’t use it anymore because I have a NAS with integrated Mediaserver. I don’t need transcoding because that’s not necessary for popcorn hour media player.
I only wrote a howto for PMS some years ago because there was and still is no other. Some people are asking questions and when I have time I’ll try to answer them. That’s all.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 04 Jan 2012 04:36:00 +0000

Worst program ever, TVersity works fine PS3 Media Server doesn’t, uninstalled/resinstalled manually set network settings check FW ports, AV, network connectivity, UPNP, nothing wrong, just shitty PS3 Media Server.

By: otmanix

otmanix — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 14:52:38 +0000

@Stephen
Of course one can fix that problem. But first of all you have to do a root cause analysis. Several problems may cause that behaviour you described before. In order to fix it you have to know what causes the problem.
example:
If PMS has too less memory available that may cause stuttering. Some guys increased transcoding buffer size and also activated itunes support. Both costs memory. PMS uses 768MB RAM by default and overall you may get an java out of memory error. In order to fix it one has to increase the available RAM for PMS (not possible via GUI) or decrease transcoding buffer and/or deactivate plugins like itunes. After that usually there is no memory problem anymore.

If you want to do a root cause analysis you first have to understand how PMS works. You may read the PMS related articles in this blog or read faq in PMS forum.
PMS is for free and there is no support guarantee included. Alternative products like twonky media server offer support but it’s not for free…

By: stephen

stephen — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 12:16:28 +0000

is there no way to fixs this problem then?:(

By: otmanix

otmanix — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:52:13 +0000

@Stephen
happy new year!
There are two possible problems.
Your network bandwith may be to low for streaming HD videos (using engine tsmuxer).
There also may be several issues when converting HD videos on the fly to M2TS/MPEG2 (using engine mencoder): too less network bandwith, too less CPU power, too high value for transcoding buffer, bad mencoder settings, …

By: stephen

stephen — Sun, 01 Jan 2012 11:01:32 +0000

Merry Christmas

Hope you can help with the problem I’m having while trying to watch mkv files through the media server. It recognises them but it doesnt run smoothly. It stops and starts and sometimes stops completely for a while.

By: otmanix

otmanix — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:50:32 +0000

@Dan
If PS3 isn’t reachable via ping there’s no PMS issue. Either you have to troubleshoot your Personal firewall settings or you have to check PS3′s WLAN connectivity or your WLAN settings in general.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 26 Dec 2011 21:27:33 +0000

Nope, after upgrading to 1,50 (trying to resolve issues like dc and so) now i can’t see the ps3 anymore no matter what. Any help? I can’t ping the ps3 too, which is connected wireless. I just continue to get the message ps3 can’t be find, etc.

By: otmanix

otmanix — Fri, 23 Dec 2011 22:35:57 +0000

@rr
so what?! who cares?