Can PS3mediaserver be used to stream video to a PS3 using an ATOM based unRAID? Is i3 a better choice?

 

I had AMD Zacate  for  two weeks and I couldn't stream 1080p without shuttering. However 720p and SD content works. Now with i3 2100T PS3 Media Server on unRaid is working perfectly.

Which AMD chip has the same processing power as the i3? I'm considering the AMD Phenom II X2 555.

Soooooo,

 

Anyone have thumbnails working in PS3 Mediaserver for video files?   If so what are your settings???

 

Kryspy

 

Kryspy - I have been playing around with this as well.  I have a "Movie" share that contains sub-folders named according to each genre I have chosen.  I rip my movies to VOBS and place these within a folder named according to the title of the movie, beneath the genre folder  (My experience is that the PS3 won't play/recognize VOBS if they are within a VIDEO_TS folder - unless you want to use the PS3MediaServer transcoding feature - which I don't as I find it limits fast forward/rewind capabilities). 

 

To get to the point, within my actual movie folder I place a thumbnail image named "folder.png" (e.g. each movie folder has one thumbnail image - and it must be called "folder.png").  When I view the actual VOBS on my screen, each VOB file has the "folder.png" image as its icon vs. the standard PS3 folder icon (I don't combine the individual VOBS after ripping).  This is what it looks like:

 

[MOVIES] (top level share/[FOLDER])

-- [sciFi.Fantasy]

---- [star.Wars.IV.A.New.Hope.(1977)]

------ folder.png

------ VIDEO_TS.IFO

------ VTS_01_0.IFO

------ VTS_01_1.VOB

------ VTS_01_3.VOB

------ VTS_01_4.VOB

 

This provides nice icons for each movie/VOB. 

 

My goal would like to be able to join all my VOBS (VobMerge), give each single VOB the title of the movie, and then have an icon with the movie title as well - but I am not certain if something like this is possible with PS3MediaServer.  While the icons look great once you ENTER the actual movie folder, you still see each movie folder as a default PS3 folder on screen.

 

I'm not certain if this is "old news" in the forum - but I found a great site to generate movie icons: http://www.worldinhidef.com/ps3ms/thumbnailgenerator/.

 

I hope this is helpful - I spent a lot of trial/error getting everything working.

Vibe,

 

I am aware of the folder.png for Movies.  What I am asking about is thumbnails of videos like TV series.  In Windows I choose 600 sec. and the thumbnail is repesentative of 600 seconds into the program.  This is cool so you can recognize if you have seen that show before.

 

Kryspy

Ahhh...Now I know what you mean.  I actually stumbled across this at one point and was surprised - yes, very cool indeed.  I have a Sony PS3 Blu-ray Disc Remote and inadvertently pressed some combination of buttons and saw the time-line of thumbnails (point in time that I paused the movie +/- previous/next scenes).  However, I have not been able to figure out how this worked since then (I made some config changes to PS3MediaServer and haven't had much time to figure this one out).  If I stumble upon this again I will post back whatever it was that made this work.

 

Another thing that would be great to get functioning is the IMDB support - however, it looks like development has stalled within the PS3MediaServer forum  .

Kryspy,

 

I guess I had this working all along - I just tried again and see that it is working fine with VOBs.  On the Sony PS3 Blu-ray remote there is a small button labeled "View" that I believe corresponds to the button with the red square on the dual shock controller.  When pressed while playing a VOB, the time-line with thumbnails from the movie appears.  If I then press the large circular button (directional selector) I can choose a time period (e.g. 1 minute +) whereby thumbnails will be generated (e.g. pseudo scene selection).  I'm not certain if this has anything to do with the format of the movie (VOBs play without transcoding).  What video format are your TV series encoded in?

VIbe,

 

Close.  I was referring to how they appear in the XMB.   As opposed to a plain icon representing the video you would see a frame of the video as a thumbnail instead.  This would work if you didn't add a folder.png file.

 

Kryspy

Ok...now I'm on the same page.  This is working fine for me - e.g. When I don't use the folder.png file I do automatically see a video frame for each VOB file within a directory.  In my PMS.conf I have:

 

thumbnails = true (true/false - display thumbnails)

thumbnail_seek_pos = 30 (1 - nnn - specify how far into video to display thumbnail)

 

Does the video format your using require transcoding through PS3MediaServer in order to play on your PS3? Could it be a case that the video format your using requires configuring the "engines" setting?

 

(I may be shooting in the dark here as I am by no means an expert with PS3MediaServer)

Vibe,

 

Interesting.  Works fine under Windows but if you have them working at least I know it is possible.

 

Kryspy

 

Can anyone build package files for libzen and libmediainfo by chance.  I don't run slackware on my home system.  It is easy to find the .gz files but not any package files.  I believe these 2 files are necessary for thumbnail and timestamp generation on p3s mediaserver.

 

Thanks in advance,

 

Kryspy

 

 

 

libzen - http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-13.1/libraries/libzen/0.4.17/libzen-0.4.17-i486-1sl.txz

 

libmediainfo - http://repository.slacky.eu/slackware-13.1/libraries/libmediainfo/0.7.39/libmediainfo-0.7.39-i486-1sl.txz

 

Both of them found by using Google with "libzen slackware packages" and "libmediainfo slackware packages". Both results pointed to http://pkgs.org/slackware-13.1/slacky-i486/ , which is a Linux Package repository search indexer.

BRiT,

 

Thanx I searched all morning and all I found were the .gz files.

 

 

Edit:   I get this error in the debug log of ps3 mediaserver

 

[main] TRACE 20:46:48.827 Error loading MediaInfo library: Unable to load library 'mediainfo': /usr/lib/libstdc++.so.6: version `GLIBCXX_3.4.11' not found (required by /usr/lib/libzen.so.0)

[main] TRACE 20:46:48.827 Make sure you have libmediainfo and libzen installed

[main] TRACE 20:46:48.827 The server will now use the less accurate ffmpeg parsing method

 

 

Kryspy

 

 

Kryspy - I have been playing around with this as well.  I have a "Movie" share that contains sub-folders named according to each genre I have chosen.  I rip my movies to VOBS and place these within a folder named according to the title of the movie, beneath the genre folder  (My experience is that the PS3 won't play/recognize VOBS if they are within a VIDEO_TS folder - unless you want to use the PS3MediaServer transcoding feature - which I don't as I find it limits fast forward/rewind capabilities). 

 

To get to the point, within my actual movie folder I place a thumbnail image named "folder.png" (e.g. each movie folder has one thumbnail image - and it must be called "folder.png").  When I view the actual VOBS on my screen, each VOB file has the "folder.png" image as its icon vs. the standard PS3 folder icon (I don't combine the individual VOBS after ripping).  This is what it looks like:

 

[MOVIES] (top level share/[FOLDER])

-- [sciFi.Fantasy]

---- [star.Wars.IV.A.New.Hope.(1977)]

------ folder.png

------ VIDEO_TS.IFO

------ VTS_01_0.IFO

------ VTS_01_1.VOB

------ VTS_01_3.VOB

------ VTS_01_4.VOB

 

This provides nice icons for each movie/VOB. 

 

My goal would like to be able to join all my VOBS (VobMerge), give each single VOB the title of the movie, and then have an icon with the movie title as well - but I am not certain if something like this is possible with PS3MediaServer.  While the icons look great once you ENTER the actual movie folder, you still see each movie folder as a default PS3 folder on screen.

 

I'm not certain if this is "old news" in the forum - but I found a great site to generate movie icons: http://www.worldinhidef.com/ps3ms/thumbnailgenerator/.

 

I hope this is helpful - I spent a lot of trial/error getting everything working.

 

Look here,  http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1324450&p=23 , go to the post by Cocoboo, and you can see my set-up with pics of my UnRaid shares on the XMB, eg: I have a share called 'Movies-DVD' and within that I have 1 vob file and 1 jpg file for each movie, so

 

Moviename1.vob

Moviename1.jpg

 

Moviename2.vob

Moviename2.jpg

 

and so on.......

 

I rip the movie disk to HDD using AnyDVDHD, then create a single vob using DVD Shrink(and within preferences set output to DVD-9, that way there is no compression of the movie)

 

Cheers Mitch

Originally I was planning on installing a DLNA player on my windows machine and adding my unRAID server as a media location, then i saw this thread. Do the directions on page 1 still apply today or have things changed in the 2 years since that was posted? I am interested in setting this up, but I figured I would ask before reading through 21 pages of posts to see if the process has evolved. I have used ps3ms on windows, but I have 0 experience installing something like this on linux.

Same process.    This site is the easiest and most concise http://bloggyvonbloggerstein.blogspot.com/2010/03/ps3mediaserver-on-unraid.html

 

 

Kryspy

Thanks Kryspy!

 

One question. Last night I installed ps3mediaserver on my Windows 7 machine and wanted to see how it would do with streaming my HD content since its been a while since I have used ps3ms. I was able to find a custom config file to use with my Samsung TV which supports DLNA. It worked great and I was able to remove my PS3 from the loop and stream directly to my TV. Would this work with ps3ms installed on the unRAID box? It would be nice to be able to stream right from the server to my TV which would remove both my Win 7 machine and PS3 from the process.

swells,

 

Hi, yes it would work the same way with unRAID.  The .conf files are loaded on startup for psms3.  the newest beta release loads a number of custom .conf files for various TV and whatnot.

 

Kryspy

Well,

 

Got video thumbnails to work.  Just set "use_mplayer_for_video_thumbs = false"  and made sure ffmpeg is set up properly and not missing any dependencies.

 

Kryspy

I followed your guide which was great. There however was one broken link to ffmpeg so i had to search for another source. I found an older version and got it installed and when i did the tests listed in the post you linked, i got one error for a missing library. I downloaded and applied the missing file. Once i booted the unRAID server, my TV saw the ps3ms, but i got errors for everything i tried to play. All of them said "Format not supported" or something similar. Going to try again this weekend and see if i can get it to work. All of these files i tried btw work great from the ps3ms installed on my windows 7 machine without any transcoding being done, so i know my tv can handle them.

 

Thanks for all the work you put into the guide and all your help with this!

This is my PMS.conf file which plays all formats of video I have throwed at it.

 

hidevideosettings = false

notranscode = false

mencoder_ass = true

nbcores = 2

thumbnails = true

thumbnail_seek_pos = 600

mencoder_ass = true

embed_dts_in_pcm = false

mencoder_disablesubs = true

mencoder_nooutofsync = false

folders = /mnt/user/Music,/mnt/user/Pictures,/mnt/user/Movies,/mnt/user/Music Videos,/mnt/user/TV Series

minimized = true

network_interface = eth0

hostname = 192.168.1.100

mencoder_usepcm = false

mencoder_remux_mpeg2 = true

mencoder_mux_compatible = false

dvd_isos_thumbnails = true

use_mplayer_for_video_thumbs = false

usecache = false

hide_media_library_folder = false

hide_extensions = true

mencoder_yadif = false

mencoder_forcefps = false

fix_25fps_av_mismatch = false

tsmuxer_forcefps = false

engines = mencoder,tsmuxer,mplayeraudio,ffmpegaudio,tsmuxeraudio,mencoderwebvideo,mplayerwebaudio,rawthumbs

mencoder_encode = keyint=1:vqscale=1:vqmin=2

 

 

Kryspy

Ok, I have to ask, what or where are the latest install directions?

 

Here:  http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=PS3_Media_Server

 

or http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=3072.msg28571#msg28571

 

or is there needed ongoing instructions buried in the pages of this thread?

 

Thanks,

 

queeg,

 

The instructions I posted a few posts above work fine and are easy to follow.

 

Kryspy

Look here,  http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/forum-replies.cfm?t=1324450&p=23 , go to the post by Cocoboo, and you can see my set-up with pics of my UnRaid shares on the XMB, eg: I have a share called 'Movies-DVD' and within that I have 1 vob file and 1 jpg file for each movie, so

 

Moviename1.vob

Moviename1.jpg

 

Moviename2.vob

Moviename2.jpg

 

and so on.......

 

I rip the movie disk to HDD using AnyDVDHD, then create a single vob using DVD Shrink(and within preferences set output to DVD-9, that way there is no compression of the movie)

 

Cheers Mitch

 

Compass (Mitch) - thanks so much for the information and photos - I greatly appreciate it.  I have been thinking about merging my VOBS - and with your post I now understand the benefits.  The thumbnails in the XMB look GREAT!

 

I think the only other addition that would be nice to have would be IMDB support for the PS3.  From the PS3MediaServer forum it looks like a recent change to the IMDB website brought the plugin to a hault http://www.ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2126.  However, I may try to tinker with it a bit.  If I get anywhere I will post my results here for sure.

 

BTW - Your "DIY" media cabinet is ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS.  What a dramatic change for your home theater - I am envious for sure  .

queeg,

 

The instructions I posted a few posts above work fine and are easy to follow.

 

Kryspy

 

There's a broken link.  Is there somewhere else to get this package?

http://pinguinmabuk.net/alien_repository/ffmpeg/pkg64/current/ffmpeg-0.5-x86_64-2alien.tgz

There's a broken link.  Is there somewhere else to get this package?

http://pinguinmabuk.net/alien_repository/ffmpeg/pkg64/current/ffmpeg-0.5-x86_64-2alien.tgz

 

Try using the source of the package itself (alien bob of Slackware) from here -- http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/ffmpeg/

 

I'm not sure why it's using a mix of 64bit and 32bit binaries, so I suggest not using the packages with "x86_64" designators in them unless you are indeed on a 64bit Slackware-based unRAID version.

 

Specifically look at http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/ffmpeg/pkg/12.2/ for his Slackware 12.2 based version.