Have TVersity streaming to my PS3...

...but it is slow. Cannot stream movies at all (can't check from here but think they are H.264).

MP3s are OK. Folders of Pictures of around 3MB each are pretty slow.

Anybody had luck with this? I'm hopeless with networks. Can't get my head around how I can download > 1MB/sec from the internet (yes, that's a big B) but far, far less across the living room, with the same router.

Does DLNA even use the router? See; hopeless.

Or am I missing something? Is TVersity re-encoding the file before it streams, thus the bottleneck is my little atom netbook?



In general really slow throughput across the living room.

Step one, get rid of wireless (if you're running it). While convenient at times it can be nothing be a pain in the arse and I don't care what anyone says you can't beat cable for a reliable fast connection.

Step two ditch TVersity, it's bloated and slow. I used to run it and had problems with stutter etc occasionally, both on wireless and wired.

Step 3 get this; ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/

Since i've been running PS3mediaserver I have had ZERO issues...ZERO (probably about a year now). It does everything you want a media server to do with little fuss and I love it. It plays anything and transcoding is a cinch if the file is non PS3 native. Do yourself a favour, get it...yesterday

Note; the atom NB should be able to stream something natively to the PS3 ok but I seriously doubt whether it it could transcode anything, in fact i'd almost guarantee it...it's not not powerful enough a cpu.

CJW said...

Step one, get rid of wireless (if you're running it). While convenient at times it can be nothing be a pain in the arse and I don't care what anyone says you can't beat cable for a reliable fast connection.

That almost defeats the purpose of this new magic.

Step two ditch TVersity, it's bloated and slow. I used to run it and had problems with stutter etc occasionally, both on wireless and wired.

Step 3 get this; ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/

A million green thumbs for you sir.

That TVersity was slowing *everything* down while running, noticeably. This beast has a lot of transcoding options to play with too. Now I have to get head aronud how Java is less bloated ;)

Note; the atom NB should be able to stream something natively to the PS3 ok but I seriously doubt whether it it could transcode anything, in fact i'd almost guarantee it...it's not not powerful enough a cpu.

Nope. Probably not, as KD said I have troubles playing decent quality vid, let alone transcoding it. Although it depends on the player. I've found best results with Winamp for FLV and KMPlayer for everything else. VLC sits somewhere in the middle.

An aside: Damn Chappell Show is funny (streaming now). Why is it though when a black man laughs at himself it is "racist"?

Good to hear that it seems to be working EP, PS3MS is a great little program. I never really messed with any of the transcoding options myself, if the ps3 won't play it I just go into the 'transcode' folder that PS3MS puts up on the PS3 and play the file through that; have never found anything I couldn't play yet :)

RE wireless; yeah it's a great technology and no doubt is improving all the time but personally I have never been happy with it. I still use my laptop around the house on the wireless but anything that requires a highly reliable connection (gaming, streaming etc) I have a cable. Sure, not as elegant a solution aesthetically but at least I know it's reliable :)

Should also note my router is 802.11g, the one I bought for my parents at Christmas was 802.11n which did seem to be significantly faster; through use of the newer standard or better hardware etc.