Ps3 And Linux

[Mella]

Has anyone done this? I'm considering going into it just to see if will be able to stream video/audio via VLC from my host PC as a client. I thought the way Sony goes on about "Network" I would be able to stream data and so on from other parts of the network. Their version of network only means as far as the internet is concerned. Any tips if this is worth the effort of re-learning Linux all over again, and will it then see the rest of my network?

Cheers

[THarper]

Has anyone done this? I'm considering going into it just to see if will be able to stream video/audio via VLC from my host PC as a client. I thought the way Sony goes on about "Network" I would be able to stream data and so on from other parts of the network.

One of the chaps I work with bought a PS3 and was surprised/disappointed in the same way. All I could find to suggest to him was the ORB application. See http://www.orb.com/gamers/ps3.htm for PS3-specific information.

What it does is runs a website on your "host PC" (ie the one containing or having access to the media content) which you access with the PS3 browser (ie without having to boot to Linux, run VLC, etc on your PS3) to navigate and play audio and video from that PC.

What I was _hoping_ to find for him was something equivalent to what is baked into the XBox360 as far as being a client to UPNP AV Media Servers (eg Windows Media Player 11, Twonkyvision on Windows/Mac/Linux, various NAS devices, etc), but there doesn't seem to be anything now.

It seems a really sensible thing for Sony to include (UPNP AV is an Intel standard, rather than a Microsoft one, so you'd hope there wasn't a philosophical reason for them not to include it in some future PS3 firmware), but for now, maybe see if Orb will do enough for you. I don't have any first-hand experience with it (I run Twonkyvision and Firefly media servers on a NAS, and that is enough for the various client devices I need to serve media to), but my co-worker said it worked ok when he tried it out. He ended up buying a Roku Soundbridge though for the music streaming at least (rather than persevering with the PS3+Orb approach), but hopefully Orb will do what you need.

ted.h.

[Mella]

One of the chaps I work with bought a PS3 and was surprised/disappointed in the same way. All I could find to suggest to him was the ORB application. See http://www.orb.com/gamers/ps3.htm for PS3-specific information.

What it does is runs a website on your "host PC" (ie the one containing or having access to the media content) which you access with the PS3 browser (ie without having to boot to Linux, run VLC, etc on your PS3) to navigate and play audio and video from that PC.

What I was _hoping_ to find for him was something equivalent to what is baked into the XBox360 as far as being a client to UPNP AV Media Servers (eg Windows Media Player 11, Twonkyvision on Windows/Mac/Linux, various NAS devices, etc), but there doesn't seem to be anything now.

It seems a really sensible thing for Sony to include (UPNP AV is an Intel standard, rather than a Microsoft one, so you'd hope there wasn't a philosophical reason for them not to include it in some future PS3 firmware), but for now, maybe see if Orb will do enough for you. I don't have any first-hand experience with it (I run Twonkyvision and Firefly media servers on a NAS, and that is enough for the various client devices I need to serve media to), but my co-worker said it worked ok when he tried it out. He ended up buying a Roku Soundbridge though for the music streaming at least (rather than persevering with the PS3+Orb approach), but hopefully Orb will do what you need.

ted.h.

Thanks THarper, it's exactly what I'm looking for. I'll try it out tonight.

Cheers

[sulimo]

Has anyone done this? I'm considering going into it just to see if will be able to stream video/audio via VLC from my host PC as a client. I thought the way Sony goes on about "Network" I would be able to stream data and so on from other parts of the network. Their version of network only means as far as the internet is concerned. Any tips if this is worth the effort of re-learning Linux all over again, and will it then see the rest of my network?

Cheers

I've been planning to. Just need to upgrade the HDD, which i haven't gotten around to as yet.

The one hickup media wise is that as yet Linux doesn't have full access to the graphics hardware, so playing back HD video for instance isn't very good. At least thats my understanding. Of course I've also seen demos of a PS3 running Linuc using a USB digital TV tuner to playback 1080i, so maybe its not so bad.

[sulimo]

It seems a really sensible thing for Sony to include (UPNP AV is an Intel standard, rather than a Microsoft one, so you'd hope there wasn't a philosophical reason for them not to include it in some future PS3 firmware), but for now, maybe see if Orb will do enough for you. I don't have any first-hand experience with it (I run Twonkyvision and Firefly media servers on a NAS, and that is enough for the various client devices I need to serve media to), but my co-worker said it worked ok when he tried it out. He ended up buying a Roku Soundbridge though for the music streaming at least (rather than persevering with the PS3+Orb approach), but hopefully Orb will do what you need.

ted.h.

Personally I find Orb and TVersity pretty awful, though perhaps thats just due to my PC not being powerful enough to transcode stuff quickly enough.

But yeah...some kind of media streaming client on the XMB is the #1 I want added to the PS3 firmware. I'd be happy enough with a SMB client.

[ultrahai]

agreed... orb is awful... watching 300 was so pixelated