My conclusion thus far is that for Xbox 360, video streaming and video transcoding works very well. However, music and pictures do not work. (On the other hand, Twonky streams everything correctly, but lacks transcoding.)

 

Any ideas why music is not streaming correctly for Xbox360? Xbox doesn't even see the music files.

Have been following this thread with interest, and the question I have has been asked a few times but no real answer can I find,

 

What is/would be a good unRaid build to allow good to excellent results for using PS3MS to stream DVD and Bluray files to my PS3?

 

Just the Budget box will do?

 

Or something with a more powerful Dual Core CPU and 4Gb Ram?

 

Thanks In Advance

 

I'm helping some friends build their first server this weekend.  It will use the Budget Box internals (Biostar A760G M2+, Sempron 140, 2 GB of RAM).  They are considering either PS3MS or a Revo with XBMC, so we'll try out both.  This will be my first experience messing around with PS3MS, so hopefully I can get it to work.  Anyway, assuming I can get PS3MS to work, I should be able to answer your question next week.

What is/would be a good unRaid build to allow good to excellent results for using PS3MS to stream DVD and Bluray files to my PS3?

 

Just the Budget box will do?

 

For just streaming (no transcoding), my Sempron 140 performs just fine. I have not tested high bit-rate MP4, but with lower-rate MP4 (such as 1080p Youtube videos), even my Sempron 140 transcodes just fine.

I'm trying to help some friends install PS3MS on their new unRAID server (which we built last night).  We are following the Mac guide.  Basically we are stuck on this step.  We've been chasing down all sorts of library files and packages that that mencoder and ffmpeg have been asking for.  It seems like every time we find one and install it, they ask for another.  Well, after several iterations of this we have finally reached two library files that we can't find anywhere:

 

libmng.so.1.tgz

libx11.so.6.tgz

 

We have found them as tar.gz files, but those won't work.  We even extracted the tar.gz files and created our own .tgz files, but no dice.  So, where do we go from here?  Can anyone point us to a link where we can download the above files?  As of right now, the PS3 doesn't detect the unRAID server at all.

There should be a forum post or two detailing exactly what is needed for ffmpeg. I'll search for it and post it here when I refind it.

 

Burried within here is a list of all packages needed to get ffmpeg working [ http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=6571.msg66634#msg66634 ] At the same time, it also includes packages needed for python. Simply leave out the python package. If you want a minimal list of packages, then feel free to experiment to see if this list can be paired down further.

 

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1. Download FFmpeg, and associated libraries:

wget http://connie.slackware.com/~alien/slackbuilds/ffmpeg/pkg/13.1/ffmpeg-0.6-i486-1alien.tgz

wget http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-current/slackware/a/openssl-solibs-0.9.8n-i486-1.txz

wget http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-current/slackware/l/libusb-1.0.6-i486-1.txz

wget http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-current/slackware/l/libtheora-1.1.1-i486-1.txz

wget http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-current/slackware/l/libogg-1.1.4-i486-1.txz

wget http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-current/slackware/l/alsa-lib-1.0.23-i486-1.txz

wget http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-current/slackware/x/libX11-1.3.3-i486-1.txz

wget http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-current/slackware/x/libXext-1.1-i486-1.txz

wget http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-current/slackware/x/libXfixes-4.0.4-i486-1.txz

wget http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-current/slackware/x/libxcb-1.6-i486-1.txz

wget http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-current/slackware/x/libXau-1.0.5-i486-1.txz

wget http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-current/slackware/x/libXdmcp-1.0.3-i486-1.txz

wget http://slackware.osuosl.org/slackware-current/slackware/a/glibc-solibs-2.11.1-i486-3.txz

 

2. Move all to /boot/packages:

mv ffmpeg-0.6-i486-1alien.tgz openssl-solibs-0.9.8n-i486-1.txz libusb-1.0.6-i486-1.txz libtheora-1.1.1-i486-1.txz libogg-1.1.4-i486-1.txz alsa-lib-1.0.23-i486-1.txz libX11-1.3.3-i486-1.txz libXext-1.1-i486-1.txz libXfixes-4.0.4-i486-1.txz libxcb-1.6-i486-1.txz libXau-1.0.5-i486-1.txz libXdmcp-1.0.3-i486-1.txz glibc-solibs-2.11.1-i486-3.txz /boot/packages

 

3. Install and/or add the following to your go script:

installpkg /boot/packages/ffmpeg-0.6-i486-1alien.tgz

installpkg /boot/packages/openssl-solibs-0.9.8n-i486-1.txz

installpkg /boot/packages/libusb-1.0.6-i486-1.txz

installpkg /boot/packages/libtheora-1.1.1-i486-1.txz

installpkg /boot/packages/libogg-1.1.4-i486-1.txz

installpkg /boot/packages/alsa-lib-1.0.23-i486-1.txz

installpkg /boot/packages/libX11-1.3.3-i486-1.txz

installpkg /boot/packages/libXext-1.1-i486-1.txz

installpkg /boot/packages/libXfixes-4.0.4-i486-1.txz

installpkg /boot/packages/libxcb-1.6-i486-1.txz

installpkg /boot/packages/libXau-1.0.5-i486-1.txz

installpkg /boot/packages/libXdmcp-1.0.3-i486-1.txz

installpkg /boot/packages/glibc-solibs-2.11.1-i486-3.txz

 

4. Reboot

 

5. Check to see that ffmpeg are installed

ffmpeg -version

 

FFmpeg version 0.6, Copyright © 2000-2010 the FFmpeg developers (followed by several more lines of text)

 

Brilliant BRiT, thank you.  We've gotten to the point where .avi's and the like work, but .mkv's don't.  They will play for a minute or less, then the server will kill the transcode process.  My guess is that the CPU or RAM is limiting it - we are using a Sempron 140 and 1 GB of generic RAM.  My friend has ordered a 2 GB stick, but it isn't here yet.  In the meantime we have been playing with these settings in the PMS.conf file, but haven't found just the right numbers yet.  Can anyone explain what exactly they mean?

 

mencoder_encode = keyint=3:vqscale=3:vqmin=5

 

I've tried 1,1,2 as well as 3,3,5 and even 10,10,15 just to get crazy.  The latter lasted the longest, but there was a noticeable drop in quality as well as a huge audio out-of-sync problem.

Unable to access jarfile /boot/custom/ps3ms/pms.jar

 

Have you checked the file exists in your ps3ms folder?  It should come from the stage when you extracted pms-linux-1.10.5.tgz, it should be in ps3ms and not in a pms-linux-1.10.5 subfolfder.

 

Hi PCRx, or anyone for that matter, I'm getting this same error(Unable to access jarfile /boot/custom/ps3ms/pms.jar) when trying to get ps3ms to run through Putty, can you remember where you found the pms.jar file, or how you fixed the problem?

 

When I unzip the pms-linux tgx file it goes to a TAR file, then when I unzip that, I can get to some directories that I can explore but I can't find any jar files?

 

Any help appreciated, ta

Hi I'm going to be getting a PS3 in a few weeks and want to be able to stream my content to it.  I've read through this forum discussion and it seems that the consensus is that this media server works well.  I just have 2 questions.

 

1.  Is this wiki's instructions up to date?  http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php?title=PS3_Media_Server

 

2.  How do 1080p MKVs look?  I have a AMD X2, with 4 gig PC4200.

 

Thanks,

Chris

 

Quick question.  My directories containing DVD.isos appear empty.  Does the Linux version of PS3 Mediaserver not support DVD.iso files ?

 

Kryspy

Unable to access jarfile /boot/custom/ps3ms/pms.jar

 

Have you checked the file exists in your ps3ms folder?  It should come from the stage when you extracted pms-linux-1.10.5.tgz, it should be in ps3ms and not in a pms-linux-1.10.5 subfolfder.

 

Hi PCRx, or anyone for that matter, I'm getting this same error(Unable to access jarfile /boot/custom/ps3ms/pms.jar) when trying to get ps3ms to run through Putty, can you remember where you found the pms.jar file, or how you fixed the problem?

 

When I unzip the pms-linux tgx file it goes to a TAR file, then when I unzip that, I can get to some directories that I can explore but I can't find any jar files?

 

Any help appreciated, ta

 

Ok, got it working, on my XP machine I went to my PS3MS install in my C:/Program File folder, found the 'pms Executable Jar File' (it has the Java coffee cup icon on it) then copied/pasted that into my unRaid flash ps3ms folder.

 

 

Hi Guys, I think what likwid4s was talking about is the PS3Mediaserver menu structure configuration.

 

If you don't set the PMS.conf "folders" option, and leave it blank, the menu structure shows the actual unraid filesystem.

When you access the menu on the PS3, you have to navigate through "/", then navigate to "mnt", and then "users" .... and really dig down the tree to find the files.

 

but if you set the "folders" option in the PMS.conf, such as:

folders = /mnt/user/Movies

 

Then when you access the menu through the PS3, you go directly to the folders with the movies. The structure is much simpler, allowing you to goto Videos, and then Movies.

 

That's how I fixed it. I think you can even add more than one folder such as:

folders = /mnt/user/Movies, /mnt/user/TV, /mnt/user/YouTube

 

 

I can't get this to work, I still have to go through he whole unRaid tree navigation route, any advice?

 

From the mnt folder I have a choice of either a Disk1 folder or user folder(both have the same movies in them), have tried the psm.conf with both mnt/user... and mnt/disk1, and also on different line-levels of the pms.conf, but still no love.

 

From within My Network Places I have 3 folders, all with the same movies, is this too many? user shares are enabled, and so far I only have 1 data disk assigned with parity waiting to be assigned, as I want to get this all working properly before transferring more.

 

folder 1 = disk1 on Media Server(Tower)

folder 2 = Movies on Media Server(Tower)

folder 3 = Movies-Kids on Media Server(Tower)

 

here's my pms.conf

 

folders = /mnt/user/Movies, /mnt/user/Movies-Kids

notranscode = avi,mp3,m2ts,ts,mp4,vob

thumbnails = true

alternativeffmpegpath =

/boot/custom/usr/share/packages/ps3mediaserver/linux

mencoder_ass = true

audiobitrate = 640

mencoder_usepcm = false

mencoder_mt = false

tsmuxer_preremux_pcm = true

mencoder_remux_ac3 = false

mencoder_encode = keyint=25:vqmax=8:vqmin=3

 

and Go script,

 

#!/bin/bash

# Start the Management Utility

/usr/local/sbin/emhttp &

 

CTRLALTDEL=NO LOGSAVE=30 installpkg /boot/packages/powerdown-1.02-noarch-unRAID.tgz

 

# PS3 Media Server

cd /boot/custom/ps3ms

installpkg jre-6u11-i586-1.tgz

cd /boot/custom/ps3ms/mencoder

installpkg *.tgz

cd /boot/custom/ps3ms/

echo "./PMS.sh" | at now + 1 minute

 

 

echo "/boot/unmenu/uu" | at now + 1 minute

 

Hi Guys, I think what likwid4s was talking about is the PS3Mediaserver menu structure configuration.

 

If you don't set the PMS.conf "folders" option, and leave it blank, the menu structure shows the actual unraid filesystem.

When you access the menu on the PS3, you have to navigate through "/", then navigate to "mnt", and then "users" .... and really dig down the tree to find the files.

 

but if you set the "folders" option in the PMS.conf, such as:

folders = /mnt/user/Movies

 

Then when you access the menu through the PS3, you go directly to the folders with the movies. The structure is much simpler, allowing you to goto Videos, and then Movies.

 

That's how I fixed it. I think you can even add more than one folder such as:

folders = /mnt/user/Movies, /mnt/user/TV, /mnt/user/YouTube

 

 

I can't get this to work, I still have to go through he whole unRaid tree navigation route, any advice?

 

From the mnt folder I have a choice of either a Disk1 folder or user folder(both have the same movies in them), have tried the psm.conf with both mnt/user... and mnt/disk1, and also on different line-levels of the pms.conf, but still no love.

 

From within My Network Places I have 3 folders, all with the same movies, is this too many? user shares are enabled, and so far I only have 1 data disk assigned with parity waiting to be assigned, as I want to get this all working properly before transferring more.

 

folder 1 = disk1 on Media Server(Tower)

folder 2 = Movies on Media Server(Tower)

folder 3 = Movies-Kids on Media Server(Tower)

 

here's my pms.conf

 

folders = /mnt/user/Movies, /mnt/user/Movies-Kids

notranscode = avi,mp3,m2ts,ts,mp4,vob

thumbnails = true

alternativeffmpegpath =

/boot/custom/usr/share/packages/ps3mediaserver/linux

mencoder_ass = true

audiobitrate = 640

mencoder_usepcm = false

mencoder_mt = false

tsmuxer_preremux_pcm = true

mencoder_remux_ac3 = false

mencoder_encode = keyint=25:vqmax=8:vqmin=3

 

and Go script,

 

#!/bin/bash

# Start the Management Utility

/usr/local/sbin/emhttp &

 

CTRLALTDEL=NO LOGSAVE=30 installpkg /boot/packages/powerdown-1.02-noarch-unRAID.tgz

 

# PS3 Media Server

cd /boot/custom/ps3ms

installpkg jre-6u11-i586-1.tgz

cd /boot/custom/ps3ms/mencoder

installpkg *.tgz

cd /boot/custom/ps3ms/

echo "./PMS.sh" | at now + 1 minute

 

 

echo "/boot/unmenu/uu" | at now + 1 minute

 

 

Ok, got it working, for those interested, I used Midnight Commander to edit the name of my PMS.conf file.

 

I tried using, Wordpad, Notepad2 and Editpad lite without success, they keep saving the file as 'PMS.conf.txt' , no matter what I did.

 

So, open a telnet session,

 

Type mc

 

Click on the following,

 

File, view, /boot, /custom, /ps3ms

 

you should see *PMS.conf  , highlight it, then

 

file, edit (make changes if you want)

 

click on the top left corner of the green bar,

 

Save As, type in PMS.conf, save

 

Quit(bottom right corner of window) to go back to ps3ms folder tree

 

 

 

 

How do you actually stop it without commenting the lines out of the "Go" start up file and rebooting the server?

 

Does anyone have DVD.iso files working with this implementation on unRAID?  Works for me under LINUX and Windows but I get no files found under unRAID in the xmb of the PS3.

 

Kryspy

Does anyone have DVD.iso files working with this implementation on unRAID?  Works for me under LINUX and Windows but I get no files found under unRAID in the xmb of the PS3.

 

Kryspy

 

No, doesn't work for me either

 

How do you actually stop it without commenting the lines out of the "Go" start up file and rebooting the server?

 

 

Not sure, I never turn it off.

killall java

 

That's one brute force way of doing it, as it will kill any and all java processes.

I'm streaming (wirelessly,no transcoding) dvd-vob files to my ps3, the majority of files play great, however some of them do not show as 16:9 aspect ratio on my widescreen crt TV, they show as 4:3.

 

All settings on PS3/TV are set to 16:9 output.

 

I've searched the ps3ms forums for a line of code that I might be able to use in my PMS.conf but there is nothing specific for unRaid, it's all for bravia TV's, which suggests this, -vf expand::::1:16/9.

 

Is there anything I could put in my PMS.conf to force 16:9 output?

 

ta

Does anyone know if this works with Samsungs DLNA on there TVs?  Also is this built into unmenu yet?

Are Romir instructions on page 1 still accurate?  I just want to use the dlna function so I can watch movies on my samsung tv so I don't need a ps3 right?

You need to go ask the people who make this program. As far as I know this program is made specifically for the ps3 but is still a DLNA so might work for your TV. MKVs will be transcoded though because the PS3 doesn't support them. You might be able to turn that off. Best way to find out is to just try it.

The newer beta file has a renderer folder which contains profiles for just about everything under the sun.

 

Kryspy

The newer beta file has a renderer folder which contains profiles for just about everything under the sun.

 

Kryspy

 

Can you point me in the direction of that renderer folder of the new beta please? I can't find it, cheers

Just download and unpack the newest beta and it's all included.  Check the PS3 mediaserver forums for whats involved in utilizing those presets.  There is a separate forum for alternate renderers.

 

Kryspy

Two Problems.

 

First, I have just upgraded PS3MS to 1.10.5, and upgraded MPlayer and FFmpeg to the latest versions while I was at it. And lo and behold I can finally play MKV files on the system all the way up to 1080p and they look and sound fantastic, as long as the audio is DTS.  AAC audio causes sync issues, although I have attempted turning off the "Alternative Sync Method" under settings and that has worked, it's kind of a kludge. I was hoping that there was an upgrade I missed, or something else I can do.

 

Second, after all my upgrades (also brought unraid itself up to current stable build) my go script is not firing off PS3MS.  I have to start a telnet session and manually enter the echo command. I went through the logs, and it seems that the packages are being installed—I only have to enter the PMS.sh command, nothing else—but the command itself isn't being issued. It doesn't matter whether I use a straight command "/boot/.../.PSM.sh" or the echo version, either way nothing.

 

Any ideas? Be happy to post log files if needed, but hoping someone has a quick and easy fix.

 

P.S. I'd be willing to host a repository for the latest and greatest packages and conf files if someone wanted to help me get them together.

Does ps3mediaserver transcode or does it simply create a link from the files to the ps3? Asking because if I go low budget and build a low end machine am I going to have problems when I need a faster machine to do the transcoding.

 

My current server works great for SMB file sharing to my HTPC, but there isn't transcoding going on.