General: PS3 Media Sharing

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    • CommentAuthorMike
    • CommentTimeOct 14th 2008
     

    This is annoying me now.

    I live in a student house, and my PS3 is downstairs. I want to have it setup so I can stream all my movies and music off of here, including my portable external hard drive, and onto the PS3.

    I've followed every single guide I've found on the net. I've set my network to Private, enabled media sharing, passed it through the firewall, and I get nothing on my PS3.

    Any ideas what's up? I've also tried Tversity, it worked tempramentally but I find it a bit rubbish, to be honest, and now even that isn't working.

    Thanks.

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      CommentAuthorSpode
    • CommentTimeOct 14th 2008
     

    Does it show up on the list at all? I thought it had to be a UPNP media server?

    • CommentAuthorMike
    • CommentTimeOct 14th 2008
     

    I've enabled UPNP on both systems and my wireless router (my pc is connected via LAN).

    I do get an unknown device show up in Media Player but my PS3 won't find my PC - and I'm not sure the unkown device is my PS3.

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      CommentAuthorcrazy pete
    • CommentTimeOct 14th 2008
     

    Had the same problem with a colleagues laptop. All the other computers at work running WMP11 (gotta be 11 for UPNP) came up on the PS3 as soon as sharing was enabled in the Media Player options. The laptop could see all the other UPNP devices in the network but could not be seen by any other device. My colleague finds the same thing on his home network with his own PS3 so we figured it's most likely something on the machine itself but couldn't track it down in the options.

    If have any luck let us know.

    Incidentally, I've been playing with one of Sony's new TVs this week with Ethernet and DLNA using it to access pictures and music (but not video) from the network. One of the new Samsungs also does video and RSS feeds amongst other things, but I've not had a play yet. I think this may spell the end of media centre PCs and in the future maybe even consoles.

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