PS3 Media Server v1.04: new features, changes, fixes

February 5, 2009

If you’re tired of TVersity, or are simply looking for a good program to stream media files to your PlayStation 3, then you can try this app out. PS3 Media Server is a program from shagrath that allows you to transcode and stream media from your PC to your console.

Download: PS3 Media Server v1.04 (Linux)
Download: PS3 Media Server v1.04 (Mac OS X)
Download: PS3 Media Server v1.04 (Windows)

Homebrew - PS3 Media Server v1.04 - Image 1 If you’re tired of TVersity, or are simply looking for a good program to stream media files to your PlayStation 3, then you can try this app out.

PS3 Media Server is a program from shagrath that allows you to transcode and stream media from your PC to your console.

It’s only a few months old but it’s already gotten a lot of progress. Here are the latest features and changes implemented in the program:

Changes / Features

New option to enable video copy on ps3
RAW images thumbnail support: CR2/CRW/PEF/NEF/ORF/SRF/MRW/DNG/ARW/RAF
New extensions supported: SHN/M2V/M2P
tsMuxer engine can now mux or reencode in AC3/PCM all audio tracks in real time
Add the experimental mencoder build for multicore on OSX
DVR-MS remuxer now included by default in Windows package
New translations: Spanish (thanks to Jose from playstationhoy.com), Dutch (thanks to Vincent Meylof), German (thanks to Jeuki), Russian (thanks to Peter Klassen), Polish (thanks to Maciej Bocian), Greek (thanks to Alexander Polichroniadis), Portuguese (thanks to Hugo Sousa), Finnish (thanks to Ove Sentlig), Norwegian (thanks to Ball80 and Topguy), Swedish (thanks to Dusan Ilic) and Japanese (thanks to Yu)

Fixes

tsMuxer’s AC3/LPCM encode/muxing + Mencoder’s LPCM remuxing now working on Linux
Fixed LPCM seeking issue
Fixed regression with PicasaWeb images feed
Changes in subtitles loading / Fonts support (Default/ASS/Embedded Fonts)
Fixed channels order with tsMuxer engine’s DTS->AC3 option
Transcode buffer wasn’t fully released after end of video
Fixed bug with shared folders selection on Windows
Fixed periodic alive messages sent to ps3
Better dvr-ms media info retrieval
Updated ffmpeg/mplayer/mencoder/mt builds on Windows and OSX (slight H264 speedup for singlecore)
Buffer issues with transcoded audio files lasting more than 10 minutes
Fixed RSS parsing with some feeds