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PS3 as a media extender ?
Hi all...I am considering replacing my X-Box 360 with a PS3 , mainly as a blu-ray player ( with a small bit of gaming from time to time ) . Only snag is I use my X-Box 360 as a media extender to stream music and photos ( not video as yet ) . Does the PsŁ have extender functionality and what could I stream from Vista Media Centre ? Any restrictions ?
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Hi - PS3 streams everything. PS3 has built in wi-fi. PS3 plays all kinds of media - MP3, AVI, XVID, VOB files, JPEG, all streamable, wirelessly.
Not sure what you mean by extender though. Lets just say I threw out my stereo cd player when I bought my PS3. |
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Hi - PS3 streams everything. PS3 has built in wi-fi. PS3 plays all kinds of media - MP3, AVI, XVID, VOB files, JPEG, all streamable, wirelessly.
Not sure what you mean by extender though. Lets just say I threw out my stereo cd player when I bought my PS3. |
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Personally I found the 360 better and playing media than the PS3 I don't believe you can use the PS3 as a media extender for Media centre edition.
I use mine with the media server HP unit, problem with that is it uses media connect and would not stream any Xvids or MP4 files on the latest update it does work no they use PVConnect but still I can get more playing on the 360 than the PS3 for some reason. |
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I installed Tversity onto my Vista PC and stream to my PS3 fine. I haven't tried Media Centre so don't know if it works on a PS3 or not.
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The ps3 can be used to stream media from your pc. It doesn't treat itself as a 'media extender' though. However, built into windows media player 11 it is possible to setup your 'shared media'. This then uses the DLNA protocol to allow sharing of at least music files, but I believe photos and video too. I have personally used it for music and seems to support wma, mp3, ogg, etc. Incidentally, this same functionality can be used by the xbox360 too as it also supports DLNA.
Anyway, the limitation is in what the receiving device (in this case a ps3) 'says' it can play. So If windows tries to play an 'm4a' file, but the ps3 doesn't accept it, then it will usually come up 'unsupported format'. I found that using Nero Media edition (or something like that), it supported a media streaming function. This worked on virtually everything I threw at it, before the ps3 even had divx functionality for instance and it could still play them. There is an option in nero for on the fly transcoding. This then meant that if the receiving player (the ps3) said it couldn't play a particular format, then nero would get the pc to re-encode it on the fly! Pretty cool, although high res video certainly suffered a bit in my experience, but audio and photos worked perfectly. So yeh, I think the ps3 is pretty good as a media centre extender if setup with something like nero media edition (or whatever it was called - should be able to confirm on nero's site). TVersity has the same functionality too, but video was terrible when I last tried it. Oh and one great thing is that getting media extender functionality on the 360 means getting a code and messing around in general. On ps3, as soon as I had setup any of the above (tversity, nero and wmp11) they 'just appeared' under the photos, video, audio folders on my ps3 with absolutely no setup/ searching or anything required - very cool. Hope others can post their thoughts too. Best Regards, Stargate. |
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