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radio silence

otmanix — Tue, 18 Oct 2011 20:30:15 +0000

Hello out there!

You may have noticed that the frequency of new blog articles has decreased a lot. At the moment I need a break from blogosphere. On the one hand I want to spend my free time for doing other things like reading tons of books on my Amazon kindle. At the moment I’m reading “the last ring-bearer“. Tolkien fans with humour will enjoy this journey to middle earth where everything is different, the good guys are the bad ones and vice versa… On the other hand I don’t have a topic to blog about. I haven’t installed/used PS3 Media Server for months so I don’t see any reason in writing articles about that or doing support. Sorry folks, please visit the PMS forum for help.

If there is a new topic worth blogging you will find new articles here.

So have a good time. Bye, Otmanix

PMS 1.22.0

otmanix — Sun, 15 May 2011 20:20:37 +0000

There’s a new major release 1.22.0 of PS3 Media Server available for download . You can find a list of recent changes in changelog.

PS3 Media Server 1.21.0 r496

otmanix — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 21:02:10 +0000

Here’s the latest snapshot of PS3 Media Server from SVN which I have compiled for you:

You can find a description of all changes in the changelog…

compiling PS3 Media Server on Mac OS X

otmanix — Sat, 12 Feb 2011 17:10:40 +0000

Recently I decided to explore a new world. I was playing around with Mac OS X 10.6 in a VMware Workstation virtual machine on Microsoft Windows 7. I also tried to compile and test PS3 Media Server on OS X. Here’s how I did it.

prerequisites

You may need some tools to compile PMS.

terminal app
SVN client
Java
Apache ant
text editor
jarbundler

You are free to use command line or GUI. You may have a favourite Text editor or shell. OS X already contains most tools needed for compiling.

terminal application

OS X already contains a terminal app.There’s a good howto from O’Reilly if it’s your first time working with shell commands. You can also use iTerm (Open Source).

SVN client

OS X already contains a command line SVN client. There’s a good howto on Murky’s blog. You may also use GUI based free SVN clients like Bazaar, iSVN or svnX.

Java

OS X already contains Java JDK. There’s no need to change anything.

Apache ant

OS X already contains Apache ant. There’s no need to change anything.

Text editor

OS X already contains the command line text edititors nano and vim. OS X also contains a GUI based text editor, the TextEdit app which can cause trouble. But there’s a howto from Apple for setting up TextEdit correctly for working with plain text files. I suggest to use free and powerful TextWrangler if you prefer a GUI based editor.

advanced developement

You may get a free apple developer account. Then you can download Xcode and other developer downloads for Java, C, … XCode contains a text editor with syntax highlighting, a SVN GUI, …

jarbundler

In order to create jar-bundles during compiling PMS you have to install jarbundler first. Download it and install it via Terminal app:

users-mac-2:~ User$ cd $HOME/Downloads/jarbundler-2.2.0/ users-mac-2:jarbundler-2.2.0 User$ ls -l total 72 -rw-r--r--@ 1 User staff 11358 19 Jan 2008 LICENSE.TXT -rw-r--r--@ 1 User staff 3924 27 Dez 11:43 build.xml drwxr-xr-x@ 10 User staff 340 6 Feb 14:35 dox drwxr-xr-x@ 6 User staff 204 6 Feb 14:35 example -rw-r--r--@ 1 User staff 18509 27 Dez 11:52 jarbundler-2.2.0.jar drwxr-xr-x@ 3 User staff 102 19 Jan 2008 src users-mac-2:jarbundler-2.2.0 User$ sudo cp jarbundler-2.2.0.jar /usr/share/ant/lib/ WARNING: Improper use of the sudo command could lead to data loss or the deletion of important system files. Please double-check your typing when using sudo. Type "man sudo" for more information. To proceed, enter your password, or type Ctrl-C to abort. Password:

checkout PMS source code from svn

You have to crete a download directory and checkout PMS (download source code) from http://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/

via terminal

users-mac-2:jarbundler-2.2.0 User$ cd $HOME users-mac-2:svn User$ svn checkout http://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ svn A svn/ps3mediaserver A svn/ps3mediaserver/MediaInfo64.dll A svn/ps3mediaserver/plugins A svn/ps3mediaserver/plugins/plugins.txt A svn/ps3mediaserver/dist-archive … A svn/ps3mediaserver/.settings A svn/ps3mediaserver/.settings/org.eclipse.jdt.core.prefs A svn/ps3mediaserver/.settings/org.eclipse.core.resources.prefs Checked out revision 480.

via finder and iSVN

compile PMS source code

After downloading source code you can start changing it or just compile it in order to create a DMG install image for OS X.

workaround for non English languages

Open text file svn/ps3mediaserver/osx/build.xml and change line from

This was an example for German language.

compiling PMS

users-mac-2:svn User$ cd svn/ps3mediaserver/osx/ users-mac-2:osx User$ ant DMG Buildfile: build.xml [echo] IMPORTANT! THIS SCRIPT MUST USE MAC OS X 10.5 OR HIGHER AND JDK 1.6 TO PRODUCE A VALID PMS.JAR [echo] Java Version: 1.6.0_15 ... DMG: [mkdir] Created dir: /Users/User/svn/ps3mediaserver/osx/PS3 Media Server [exec] alias file Programme of folder Desktop of folder User of folder Users of startup disk [exec] created: /Users/User/svn/ps3mediaserver/osx/pms-macosx-1.21.0.dmg BUILD SUCCESSFUL Total time: 1 minute 3 seconds users-mac-2:osx User$ ls -l *dmg -rw-r--r--@ 1 User staff 29125760 6 Feb 15:52 pms-macosx-1.21.0.dmg users-mac-2:osx User$

o.k. now you can install PMS by dragging the DMG file to the applications folder. That’s it! Have fun

If you want to do some testing you can also start PMS directly without installing it first. Start terminal, change to PMS app folder where pms.jar is located and start it directly with several options…

PS3 Media Server 1.21.0-r472 for Mac OS X

otmanix — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 21:51:35 +0000

Some tools are missing on Windows which are necessary to compile a Mac OS X dmg-image. I was searching for an alternate solution…

This is what I found: running Mac OS X 10.6.5 (aka snow leopard) in a virtual machine in VMware Workstation 7 on Windows 7. So I was able to use standard procedure for compiling PMS on OS X.

Finally here is PS3 Media Server 1.21.0-r472 for Mac OS X

Have fun!

PS3 Media Server 1.21.0 r467

otmanix — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 19:59:53 +0000

Here’s the latest snapshot of PS3 Media Server from SVN which I have compiled for you:

I suggested to add a dummy renderer conf for Windows Media Player to get rid of the unknown renderer messages when using MS Windows. This, my German language update and other changes are implemented in this release

You can find a description of all changes in the changelog…

PS3 Media Server 1.21.0 r453

otmanix — Tue, 25 Jan 2011 19:56:19 +0000

Here’s the latest snapshot of PS3 Media Server from SVN which I have compiled for you:

Subjunk changed to a new versioning system. You can find a description of all changes in the changelog…

PS3 Media Server 1.20.448

otmanix — Mon, 24 Jan 2011 22:59:15 +0000

Here’s the latest snapshot of PS3 Media Server from SVN which I have compiled for you:

Subjunk did an update of the language files, Chocolateboy corrected scroll bar behaviour. You can find a description of all changes in the changelog…

PS3 Media Server 1.20.444

otmanix — Sat, 22 Jan 2011 12:19:32 +0000

Here’s the latest snapshot of PS3 Media Server from SVN which I have compiled for you:

You can find a description of all changes in the changelog…

P.S.

And once again we all have to say thank you very much to the great job of SubJunk and Chocolateboy!

PS3 Media Server 1.20.439

otmanix — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 19:32:29 +0000

Otmanix Blog proudly presents:

The return of the living dead

aka

PMS 1.20.439

Here’s the latest version of PS3 Media Server which I have compiled for you:

You might be interested in reading the changelog…

P.S.

We all have to say thank you very much to the great job of SubJunk and Chocolateboy!