PC to TV Streaming - Wireless
 

I have a ton of content (TV Shows, Movies & Music) on my desktop that I much rather watch on my 55" LED TV than my 21" monitor in my bedroom.

I have a PS3 hooked up to the T.V. but that doesn't allow me to use files over 4gb, so 720p & 1080p videos can't be watched due to the FAT32 issue.

What's the best route to go about this wirelessly?

use an external drive connected to your computer formatted as NTFS for storage. Depending on your connection it may work fine.

And then use TVersity or another program to stream to my PS3?

http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/

I use it and love it.

yup

ps3 media server the easiest thing to use! It also works for xbox's

I use media server but I like serviio a little better. I live by it

AppleTV + Airplay = Business

Thanks for all your help guys! Once I get home from my game in Philly, I'm going to give it a whirl!

Truth. I use AirVideo to transcode MKVs on the fly and push them to the AppleTV.

I second this. I just got a PS3 and this software has worked fantastic so far.

The newest version is called Universal Media Server 2.1.1, since now the software not only works with PS3, but with XBox and some other devices as well.

Serviio is another option that I have used to stream to devices in the past, and it worked okay, but I would put what I mentioned above a notch above it.

You may want to considered a wired connection to your PS3. Wireless connections are great things, but nothing beats an old fashioned cat 5/cat 6 cable run to your router, in terms of speed and reliability.

Interesting. I used Serviio to stream to my Blu-ray player, and then to my PS3, but found the UMS worked better.

I had the best luck with Serviio myself.

anybody know how to get around the cinava protected stuff on PS3? :evil:

http://blog.dvdfab.com/cinavia-protection.html


That blog lists some work-arounds, and it sounds like a better solution is being worked on. DVDFab is the some of the best software around, so I imagine they will have a solution eventually.

Sony SMP‑N200

Serviio will not open on my cpu at all & PMS won't find my PS3 at all.

Got PMS to work on my MacBook Pro but not on my Win7 desktop. I'm okay with that but how do I get it to stream smoother? Does my ps3 need to be connect via LAN or MacBook Pro?

Somewhat off topic here, but i don't want to start a thread for it.

Sometimes i want to connect my laptop to my flatscreen (to play games) in the room via HDMI, but when I do, the resolution looks like crap. The text is real hard to read...it just doesn't look anywhere near as good as it does on my laptop screen.

Why is this and what can i do to fix it?

It's probably trying to fit the screen resolution of the laptop to the TV. Go to Display Properties on the computer and change the resolution to a different setting once it's hooked up to the TV.

I don't have one, but would the PS3 work with big files if you formatted it as ExFAT?

Just uninstalled Java & PMS then proceed to reinstall and everything works. It streams everything to my 55" in my bedroom flawless. Thanks to everyone. REP time.

I must be missing something here.

How is the PS3 affected by the computer being formatted FAT32? Or is he trying to use a USB storage device or something?

I have a 1TB NAS formatted XFS and stream all kinds of shit to my PS3.

PS3 won't read files over 4gb. (Blu-Ray)

So it's the PS3 drive that's formatted FAT32?

I'm still missing something I guess because I don't understand why the HDD on the PS3 would have any effect on streaming videos from another device to the PS3.

The drive on my pc that is streaming to my PS3 is a 2 TB NTFS drive. My understanding is that the PS3 will not read any drive directly that is not FAT32. So if I had an external drive that was formatted NTFS and want to play files from it on my PS3, I would have to hook it up to a PC and then stream the content over, as opposed to just directly connecting said drive to the PS3 via USB.

Ah.

That's what I was missing.

I guess I didn't see any reason someone would want to stream direct when so many network-based options are readily available.

Agreed. The network layer takes care of that.

If you plugged it in, it wouldn't recognize it but if it's a network share it doesn't care. I'm guessing it would be the same way if your TV could access network shares. I had that issue with my Samsung TV, but switched to streaming everything with AirVideo instead of using SneakerNet to move the files to the TV.

I guess I'm just lucky. My PS3 and TV just happen to be in the same spot where the fiber comes into my house, so my network gear and my A/V gear are right next to each other.

My PS3 and NAS are plugged into the same switch.