Starting today, we're going to run a series of posts from one of our applicants who replied to our call for new contributors. Anthony comes way of Northern California, works for a biotech company, but his real passions seem to lie with the convergence of technology and the home. Please help welcome Anthony and be sure to give us feedback of how he's doing...
Looking for a way to watch any movie or TV show on your multimedia powerhouse, Playstation 3? Here’s a step by step, if not a bit convoluted, method of getting nearly all your standard and high definition movies on your computer to play on your big screen using your PS3 (fair warning: this isn't an easy install and click solution...not for the faint of heart)...
1. Uninstall any codec packs you have on your computer.
2. Download TVersity without their included codec pack.
3. Install FFDShow Tryout rev1726 0071224 from here.
4. Grab the 1.0.2.9 "Gabest" splitter here.
Install Gabest splitter by hand:
- Use "Release Unicode" if you're running XP.
- Extract MatroskaSplitter.ax to C:\windows\system32.
- Start > Run > cmd
- cd C:\windows\system32
- regsvr32 matroskasplitter.ax (you can uninstall with: regsvr32 /u matroskasplitter.ax)
5. Go to ffdshow video decoder settings.
- Enable Subtitles.
- Make sure the following are checked:
- Accept embedded subtitles
- Accept SSA, ASS, and ASS2 subtitles (experimental)
- Decode closed captions
6. TVersity Tweaks
- General > Media Sharing Device > Playstation 3.
- Transcoder > Always Transcode
- Use 1280x720 res, optimize Quality, Wired, and Minimum compression.
7. Further Tweaks
- Edit profiles.xml in install directory with Notepad.
- Search "Playstation" and look a few lines below it.
- Change the following from mpeg16 to mpeg2.
- video="video/mpeg2" photo="image/jpeg"
- onlineAudio="audio/mpeg" onlineVideo="video/mpeg2" onlinePhoto="image/jpeg"
- adjustReadStartPos="false", audioFailFutureSeek="false", and videoFailFutureSeek="true" />
8. Even More Tweaks
- Start > Control Panel > Windows Firewall Settings/Security Settings > Exceptions Tab > Add Program > Search your TVersity directory for mediaserver.exe
9. Last Tweak, I Promise
- Right click My Computer > Manage > Services & Applications > Services
- Find "TVersityMediaServer" and double-click to open Properties.
- Click on "Log On" tab and change the login from Local System account to an account for the computer.
- Click "Find Now" to make things quick and easy.
10. Enjoy yourself some streamed media of your choice!
-Anthony
My friend showed me this link on his blog. It actually works terribly with any other codec. I actually fixed all the problems I was having after uninstalling my older codecs. Make sure you do that mpeg2 thing or it looks ugly!
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... or get an AppleTV
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This almost makes me want to purchase a PS3...just waiting for that next price drop and some better gaming choices (which seem very much in the pipeline).
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I've tried this and am getting a problem with the regsvr32 matroskasplitter.ax command, its saying
"the module"matroskasplitter.ax" failed to load.
Make sure the binary is stored as the specified path or debug to check for problems with teh binary or dependant .dll files";
I'm running vista, and would love to get my ps3 to play all the files I have, just this issue is hindering me, any ideas as to what it could be, I've saved the file within the system32 directory etc.
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