PS3 Media Server v1.03: new multicore mencoder for Windows, more

January 19, 2009

PS3 Media Server app is a DLNA compliant uPnP media server for the PS3. You can stream or transcode pretty much any kind of media file with it. Developer shagrath has added a lot of changes and features in this release, so click on through to the full article for the changelog for PS3 Media Server v1.03.

Download: PS3 Media Server v1.03 (Windows)
Download: PS3 Media Server v1.03 (Linux)
Download: PS3 Media Server v1.03 (OSX Intel only)

Changes / Features

Customize encoding parameters (along with default ones) for any given container/codec/property combination (purpose: A/V sync, playback issues, and tweaking for advanced users)
Ability to select networking interface
OSX 10.4 Tiger support (Intel only)
Settings reorganization
M4V now streamed by default, you have to enter the #Transcoded# folder to force the transcode (like AVI files)
WMA now transcoded by default
Italian localization
WINDOWS ONLY: Use (only with 720p/1080p H264 content) an experimental mencoder build for multicores
New OSX icon (thanks to Jakob Karlsson)
Added a “Skip/Force transcode extensions” option added if default settings don’t suit you
Possibility to only remux AC3 audio tracks and not reencoded them

Fixes

Default platform charset issue
Transcode buffer optimization on Windows
Application crash on Windows when too many widechars filenames were parsed
Audio tracks sorted by track number (if present) in media library
Better filenames/subtitles management (m2ts/ts/dvr-ms issues, comas, widechars, etc.)
External subtitles not always loaded, again
DVD images are listed in the media library
Fixed RSS parsing for Youtube and maybe other feeds
AviSynth / VideoLAN not always detected on Vista 64bits
Unavailable engines exclusion on OSX/Linux
Fixed console mode on Linux