Okay I mentioned in the last post that  it was possible through the magic floaty data dust known as wifi you can stream movies from your computer to your Xbox 360 instead. Read on…

The program you need is called tversity which as you have probably guessed from all other software I’ve mentioned is FREE. There is the option to upgrade to the pro version but I’ve stuck with the basic one and it does all I need so far.

Keeping it short and sweet; install, activate and enjoy.

It runs a media server on the computer which is found on the Xbox 360 dashboard under the videos section,  and allows you to play movies and videos straight onto your TV. I have had very few issues running it so far and there is loads of support on their website and  forums if there are any issues. Before being recommended tversity I didn’t realise it was possible to stream without having more expensive specific versions of windows  which support media streaming, that’s why it rocks so much! And it saves on consumable media like DVD’s and CD’s.

Right enough geeking for tonight. Stream away.

Great news, everyone!

My Panasonic VIERA X1 Series TC-L32X1 32-Inch 720p LCD HDTV is suitable after all for my Mac Mini Home Theater (or media server).

After I hooked my Mac mini to my 720p HDTV, I was really perplexed to see that the image was cut off on all four sides.

My menubar was almost completely off the screen (but still usable).

This is due to a process called overscanning which defines the “TV Safe Zone” which originated because ye olde CRT TVs could not display a picture properly all the way to the edge of the screen.

[ Overscan is officially defined as the extra image area around the four edges of a video image that is not normally seen by the viewer. ]

There are tools such as DisplayConfigX and SwitchResX that you can use to customize and control your Mac mini’s screen resolution and (in theory) get your mini’s screen to display properly on a 720p HDTV screen.

I gave both of these utilities a tumble but both seemed a bit over my head.

(And I lacked the necessary patience / intestinal fortitude to figure them out.)

Hey-O, I wanted to watch HD movies, DVDs, My Netflix watch instantly queue, classic TV shows (via Hulu), Blondie music videos and other neat stuff on my Panasonic (and not muck around with screen resolutions, gamma Ghzs and whatnot).

Then I finally read in some forum that I could use adjust screen preferences in PLEX (which is the virtual doorway to my Mac Mini media empire) to get all of my media to display correctly on my 720p HDTV screen.

Yowza!

(Please see tomorrow’s blog post for the skinny on that operation.)

My slacker heart was all a flutter because my Mac mini is a living room centerpiece / media server only.

(My trusty and stalwart iMac is my computing workhorse.)

This being the case I don’t need my menubar and program dock to display correctly on my HDTV.

And I’m using Remote Buddy to control my Mac mini from the couch (no need for menus or the program dock to launch the necessary apps.)

Thanks for reading!

More to come…

En los últimos días he venido jugando con esta idea. Estaba pensando, hace tiempo, comprarme un disco duro externo, digamos de 1TB, para poder hacer backups de todos mis archivos y poder migrar allí toda mi colección multimedia – música y videos, básicamente. Estaba convencido de la utilidad de esta idea hasta que el geek que vive en mí tomó control del asunto y se salió completamente fuera de control.

Lo que era un inocente disco duro externo para hacer backups se convirtió en el siguiente proyecto para empezar el próximo año: ¿por qué sólo un disco externo, cuando podría tener un servidor de archivos completo – un NAS (Network Attached Storage? Así que ahora el plan es el siguiente: montar un servidor Linux, probablemente con Ubuntu, en una máquina nueva que arme con piezas recicladas pero con discos duros que sumen un mínimo de 2TB. Dejarlo corriendo y conectarlo a la red (manejarlo vía web y ssh) y que funcione como servidor de archivos para todas las computadoras de mi casa, es decir que debe ser capaz de servir tanto Linux, Windows y Mac. Luego quiero configurar scripts para que todas las computadoras hagan copias automáticas de alguna carpeta en particular de backups, que corra incrementalmente cada noche o cada vez que prende cada computadora. Por el lado del servidor puedo configurar otro script que bote backups generales una o dos veces por semana que puedo almacenar en una ubicación diferente.

Luego, la idea es que el servidor también funcione como servidor de medios. Usando algo como Firefly, que me permita transmitir música y videos a cualquier computadora de la casa – en el mejor de los casos, que me permita botar señal de video directamente a mi televisor. Como plus, quiero manejar toda mi biblioteca de música directamente en el servidor y poder sincronizarla directamente con mi iPod. Y, además, quiero la posibilidad de poder descargar torrents directamente desde el servidor vía un cliente web.

Finalmente, la cerecita del helado es que pueda ver todos mis archivos vía web o ftp, con la debida seguridad, desde cualquier lugar fuera de mi red, cosa que puedo acceder a mis archivos en cualquier momento.

Así que será un proyecto divertido. Cualquier sugerencia o comentario es más que bienvenido.

ps3mediaserver – Project Hosting on Google Code

If you’re like me who doesn’t own a PC to stream media to the PS3 then this free alternative is a good idea. It runs on macs, PCs and Linux and developed on the Java platform.

It’s fairly simple to use if you know your way around media servers but to put it simply, it gets the job done. I’m using my mac mini  ( not the latest but the first generation intel Mac mini with 2 GB of RAM to do this. It automatically sets up the DNLA protocols necessary to communicate with the PS3 and automatically sets the movie folder in your home folder as the default source for the media. You can add additional folders as well.

But what makes this piece of software great is the transcoding. Up until now, we’ve always been dependent on the formats that the consoles supported and it hasn’t been easy. Not all avi files would play, incompatible condec and so on that it’s been quite a challenge to play anything off a home media server to the PS3 but it all changes with this software and it’s built in transcoder.

Yes folks it has a built in transcoder which will allow you to transcode in almost faster than real time any format to make it PS3 friendly.  That means all your mkv, avi, ogg, and so on will be transcoded in almost real time. Note that I stress almost real time. This is because results may vary on the processor, RAM and so on of your computer and may either be faster or slower.

Sound transmitted supports dolby digital or whatever audio encoding is in your files. Scrubbing through the movie may prove to be difficult for some formats since I’ve stated above that it may or may not be transcoding. This means that if the file is being transcoded, chances are you can’t skip any further than what has already been transcoded. So be warned. A mild inconvenience but nothing that should seriously affect the overall experience.

The PS3 automatically detects the presence of the media server and everything can be accessed from there. The one amazing thing I’m very very much impressed here is tha ability to select language. Yes I do mean the audio language of the file. The file format mkv is used mostly if there are multiple languages in the file. It’s like the DVD language menu option but can usually only be controlled or watched on a PC. PS3 Media Server ia able to dissect through the language options and send that information to the PS3 which will allow you to select your desired language.

The best part of this, it’s free. Yes, click on the link above to bring you to the developer’s page and download away. I do hope that they continue to develop and support this important piece of software and keep it free.

This is the best deal on Ebay that I’ve found for a Logitech Dinovo Cordless Keyboard Mac Edition.

$59.99 and free shipping.

These keyboards are refurbished but come with a 30 day warranty.

Plus the seller has 99.2% Positive feedback for over 80,000 transactions so I guess it’s safe to say that they’re reputable.

Retail price for this Logitech Mac keyboard is $99.00

Amazon’s price is $79.00.

I do a lot of writing so I’m willing to pay extra for a full-sized keyboard that has good tactile response and is a pleasure to use (which this keyboard reportedly is).

Plus this Mac keyboard is wireless and has some multimedia functions so I can use it for my long anticipated Mac mini media center.

When my Mac Mini is connected to my HDTV, I can use either this keyboard and/or my Aluminum Apple Remote (enhanced by the Sofa-Control app) to surf the Web and perform other righteous Mac computer tasks.

The aesthetics of this keyboard are a great bonus!

Apple quietly killed the 40GB Apple TV and slashed the price of the 160GB Apple TV by $100 to $229.  So, if you’ve ever thought about setting up a media server or trying out Boxee it’s great news! Although if you’re going to go with a media center computer in your living room, and you’re bent on getting a Mac, we recommend going the Mac Mini route.

Read the Full Article

An Apple Media Box is the missing link, and would conceivably sell like hotcakes. So, where is it? And why did we spend all day watching demos of Nanos with cameras and FM radios instead?

link: CNet – Home Sharing is great, but where’s our Apple home media server?

Infatti. Sarei anchio curioso di vedere un Media Server casalingo prodotto da Apple e magari valutarne l’acquisto, prezzo permettendo.

A common question I get asked by friends and relatives when they come over to my house is “How does my TV do that thing with all the movies on it?” What my friends and family are referring to are my media servers and the ability to stream all of my data to every TV in my house. To answer this question, I thought I would post is up here so I can just direct people to this post rather than explaining it every time.

The Hardware/Software Overview:

File Server
Thermaltak Armor Full Tower Case
Asus A8N-E Motherboard
4GB DDr-400 RAM
AMD Athlon X2 3800+ (939 Socket)
Enermax Liberty 600W PSU
LG Black DVD-RW
3Ware 9590SE 8 Port Sata Card
8 Hotswapable HD Cradles
5 1.5TB WD Caviar Green HD
2 Hauppauge PVR250 SD TV Tuners
Windows 2003 Standard Server
Sage TV Server Software
K-Lite Codec Pack Standard
Power DVD 8 (For the Blu-Ray Playback Codec)

Media Extender Boxes
2 Sage HD-1000 Extender Boxes

In my basement I have my file server setup in the closet. I have wired my house with Cat 6 Ethernet cable and have a total of 16 connections throughout my house. All connections are connected through two Gigabit Netgear Prosafe switches.

At each TV I have placed one of the Sage HD1000 extender boxes and connected them to the network. These boxes allow each of the TV’s to connect to the Sage server software running on the file server and in turn allow these boxes to then access all of the content stored on the file server.

That is pretty much it, nothing to fancy.

As a note, I used to have cable and that is the purpose of the tuner cards in the server. With the cards I was able to record up to 4 channels at a time and all TV’s could access the content and perform PVR functionality.

Nearly every device sold these days is packing a network jack and whether TV, set-top box or game console many of them are capable of easily tapping into DLNA compatible servers, but which one is right for you? The folks over at tubeCore have gone to the trouble of trying each one out (PlayOn, PS3 Media Server, TVersity and other familiar names are on the list) and presented their impressions in easy to digest chart form. Sure you could investigate the specs on your own, but when it comes down to it, price, ease of use and media formats supported will be the key factors, and here you can quickly get an idea of them. So, which one are you using foor easy cross platform media streaming, or did you go a different route entirely?

via Media server software capabilities charted for your easy reading.

Part 1 is here

Part 2 is here

Here are the pics as promised No one knows who is reading these posts..

Chapter 1 – The Ordnance

Part 1 can be found here. It deals with the reasoning behind having a file and media server in the first place. Part 2 goes into choosing the hardware and how it was chosen.

When we decided to put a server in our home, we needed to decide what it would end up doing. This is important in any context, the right tool for the job, so to speak. Our needs were as follows

1. A central repository of all our files – mp3s (around 50 GB), movies and tv shows (around 100 GB but keeps on increasing) and documents (including photos right from the days i was wearing nappies,around 20 GB)

2. Downloading torrents 24×7. We have a 256 kbps (yeah its measly) connection, with no b/w limits as far as i can tell. So in order to maximise bang for the buck and in order to provide the entertainment we find hard to get on TV, we download 24×7, every day, all week, no sabbath! A previous laptop of mine had already suffered an untimely death due to being on continuously and we wanted to move this critcal function to a desktop which wouldnt generate too much heat and be able to handle torrents in an always on environment.

3.  Play media in the living room. Some kind of video output of halfway decent quality and 6 channel audio to output to the 5.1 system we have was mandatory

4. Transcode and Stream Media. I have a PSP right now. This may expand to an XBOX 360/PS3/Wii in the future and the serve rmust be up to transcoding and streaming on the fly with performance drops

Now, a lot of people think servers are some esoteric alien machines which have nothing to do with the computer we use everyday to check our mail. Nothing could be farther from the truth. Servers are merely specialized computers designed to do some compuing jobs exceedingly well (which makes them suck at others). Underneath all the jargon, their parts are mostly the same as the laptop this post is being written on!

With that concept in mind and a ridiculously low price point of Rs. 7000 in mind, I set out researching for the ordnance I would need for the battle, so to speak

This is how my needs translated into hardware requirements.

A.Processor Generally speaking, any processor launched in the last 5 years would do the job, as the activities i had in mind for my server are not processor intensive. Even Windows 7, the latest version of Windows requires only  a 1 Ghz processor!

B. RAM, however is a different story. Windows 7 requires a minimum of 1 GB RAM. Servers require a lot of RAM when multiple users connect to them (which wouldnt be the case iner well, my case!). Even so, I needed to future proof the machine a bit and decided not to settle for anything less than 2 GB RAM. Luckily, RAM is dirt cheap nowadays, with 2 GB costing around Rs. 1250.

C. Video Memory I will never play any games on this computer. However, todays HD content would benefit from a decent video card / video memory of atleast 128 MB (which by the way is what Windows 7 requires for fancy Aero effects).

D. Motherboard. Would have to be extreme bang for the buck, with a good complement of ports and a chipset which doesnt suck too much.

E. Hard Drive. Since  content always expands till your current HDD is filled and putting in new stuff means deleting new stuff, I needed the biggest drive I could afford. And it had to be SATA (not only are read write speeds are better, the cable is thinner and lends to more elegant innards when it comes to assembling the system)

F. Display – None! Servers dont need monitors! My server is a zombie!

G. Input Devices – None! Servers only need keyboards and mice while initial config is done. Just borrow from your desktop or neighbour and return when your server’s online!

H. Case – The smallest case to be found locally, with its own power supply, must be black in color!

A lot of googling and sifting through various reviews and multiple visits to Newegg. I finally decided on the following combination of hardware for my server.

Processor – Intel – Atom 330 (1.6 Ghz Dual Core with HyperThreading)

Motherboard – Intel – D945GCLF2 – Based on the Intel 945 chipset

RAM – Kingston – 2 GB

Hard Drive – Samsung – 1 TB

Case – Zebronics –  Nick Micro ATX

The beauty of the Atom 330 has to be seen (read about, rather) to be believed. The processor and motherboard are assembled by the manufacturer and shipped as 1 unit. Even though the 945 chipset negates the power savings achieved by the ultra low voltage Atom processor, the price point of the package is too attractive to ignore!

A review and bench mark of the Atom 330 can be found here. I’ll simply say this – Pentium 4 beating performance, Gigabit Ethernet, S-Video Out, Onboard video memory which is expandable in BIOS, with a PCI slot thrown in for good measure, at a price point of $ 85 (Rs. 4250) ? ION can be ‘fully-capable’ all it likes, but my server’s running the 330!

The Samsung HDD cost almost as much as the motherboard+processor itself! I somehow landed a deal which got me a 7200 RPM, 3 GBPS drive for $ 75

Total cost

Motherboard + Processor – Rs. 4250

RAM – Rs. 1250

HDD – Rs. 3750

Total – Rs. 9250

Yes, I overshot my budget quite a bit, but thats the price you have topay for future proofing the machine. If I had toned down my HDD size to 250 GB, I would have been well under budget!

Note:  I ordered all the above parts on Newegg and had them shipped to inside the US. I got them a month later when an Indian returned home! The Atom 330 is not available in India as of today. DO NOT buy the Atom 230, it sucks hairy balls.

I bought the case on Ritchie Street, and it cost me Rs. 1250, ratcheting the total cost to Rs. 11,000 ($ 220). Thats cheaper than an iPod!

Part 3 – Pics of the assembly process. Coming Soon..

Russound is preparing to launch their new HomePlug-based system dubbed “Collage.”  The system offers up whole-home music, video surveillance, intercom and control for retrofit applications – no new wires required (except maybe a few short runs of speaker wire).

Collage is Russound’s  new power line media and intercom system that employs PLC (power line carrier) technology to distribute media throughout the home.

The collage system core is a modified version of HomePlug 1.0 technology to deliver audio and video streams from sources (iPods, Servers, NAS Drives, Computers, CD Players, etc) which are controlled via Collage keypads.

The whole-home system taps into Romex (electrical wiring abundantly available in every home) to get power and transfer signal.  The diagram below depicts the Collage topology.

With a built-from-the-ground-up approach, Russound packed their new in-wall Collage controllers with smart processors and interface modules to allow communication over the Romex network. The brawn of the Collage keypads encompass a touchpad, click wheel and quarter VGA (QVGA) display which is about the same resolution and look of an iPhone screen; behind that lies the brains: a CPU, modified HomePlug technology, a 30-watt amp, power supply, and even an FM tuner is built into each keypad.

Sources can plug into any AC outlet in the home to be accessed from any zone.  This works thanks to Russound’s new Gridcast communication protocol which is built into every product in the Collage ecosystem.  Behind every keypad and the powerline plug-in modules is a Gridcast product; iPod docking stations and Gridcast bridges for connecting (and controlling) analog audio sources and surveillance cameras.  Gridcast-enabled Media Manager gateway delivers IP-based content from media servers and DLNA-compliant devices, as well as Web-based music from sources such as Rhapsody, Shoutcast and Internet radio stations (no PC required).

In addition to functioning as the whole-home music system we’ve described above, Collage is also an intercom system.  Best of all, you will find many high-end features such as room-to-room, whole-home paging, listen-in, and hands free as you would normally see on more expensive stand-alone intercom system.  To top things off Collage also has a built-in alarm clock with a sleep timer and snooze feature.

Perhaps one of the most amazing features is the fact that you can have as little as one single zone or as many as 10.  The reason we find this so fascinating is because with tradition hardwired whole-home music systems you typically will purchase a six zone multichannel receiver and processor.  That means if you originally installed six zones and want to expand to a seventh, you would have to add the cost of buying another six zone multichannel receiver.  With Russound Collage you build the system for how many zones or areas of audio you want and you’re done – no more excess or overly abundant system architecture.  Collage can support up to 34 sources, including iPods, analog audio devices, surveillance cameras and networked sources via Russound Gridcast network plug-in modules.

Anywhere you have an outlet or light switch, you can have Collage!

www.GoQAV.com

Prologue – The Imperative & The Cognisance

Recently me and my sis decided to switch to Windows 7, as the Release Candidate was out and Badri raved about it. I was naturally the sacrificial goat (being more tech-savvy AND more patient). I found myself in the most ghastly situation. Both our laptops had only one partition and Windows 7 doesnt allow you to upgrade from Windows XP. It has to be a clean install. Which means the entire hard drive needs to be formatted. It wouldnt do at all to lose my entire 20+ GB music collection and assorted movies now, would it?

I managed to get through the installs after jumping through a million hoops. Imagine transferring almost 100 GB of data onto other computers (yes, plural there), installing Windows 7, hunting for audio and video drivers that were released like 3 days prior to my installing the OS, then transferring all the media back to my computer, to get a fully functional Windows 7 installation.

Trust me, its worth it! Windows  is the best thing to come from the belly of the beast in the last decade. The last time i was so pleased with an OS was when the XP beta started floating around in mid 2001. It was called Whistler then, and ran gloriously on my then cutting edge machine (800 Mhz P3, 128 MB RAM, 20 GB HDD!). Ah the good old days..

But this is not a nostalgic piece, neither is it a review of Windows 7. You can find plenty of those two on the interwebs.

What I realized during this painful transition is that every home should have a centralized repository of their files, photos, music, videos. The huge convinience of not having to move around data when upgrading PC’s, regular backups of all data to ensure availability and reliability, and the instant streaming of all music and video to any device on the home network is not only cool, its mandatory in this day and age!

As a victim of a failed laptop whose day came all too soon because it was subjected to the pressures usually reserved for hardy desktops, I came to the conclusion – Never send a laptop to do a server’s job!

With this in mind, and an extremely tight budget I began to do the research that would culminate in ATLAS – my media + file server ( I love giving fancy names to my devices, my personal laptop is called PROMETHEUS).

Part 2 – Servers are cheap! Coming Soon..

blueTunes, a streaming music site that lets you stream your music library from the cloud to any computer, is launching a new desktop app tonight that looks to make the service an even more compelling alternative to other online music sites and possibly even iTunes.

For those who aren’t familiar with the service, blueTunes lets you scan your hard drive for music files and upload them to the site’s servers, which you can then stream from wherever you are. This process would take a very long time (and quite a bit of bandwidth) were it not for a shortcut the site is employing: while you still have to prove that you own your music (the site uses a Java app to check through you music folders), the site only makes you upload songs that aren’t already in its database. In other words, unless you’ve got a really eclectic collection, you’ll be able to transfer your library to the cloud without having to move many files.

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Another music site that also lets you stream your music library from the cloud is Lala, which we’ve been following pretty closely since the service’s relaunch last year. As with blueTunes, Lala only makes you upload songs that aren’t already in its library, and Lala also has the benefit of deals with all the major record labels, so it doesn’t have to worry about any potential legal troubles.

via blueTunes: Music In The Cloud Comes To Your Desktop.

E rieccomi dopo un piccolo periodo di pausa, del resto avevo avvertito della potenziale discontinuita’ dei miei post

Un paio di mesi fa ho acquistato finalmente una Play Station 3 da usare prettamente come lettore Blue Ray (ad oggi ancora non ci ho inserito un singolo gioco) e, dopo qualche tempo passato a godermi i film in alta definizione, ho deciso di cercare qualcosa per vedere i cari vecchi DivX.

Senza troppa fatica ho trovato un software in Java UPnP compilant chiamato PS3 Media Server.

Il software in questione e’ ricco di funzionalita’, prima di tutto gira su tutte le piattaforme ormai piu’ diffuse quali Windows, Linux e Mac OS. Non richiede quasi alcun tipo di configurazione, non richiede l’installazione di codex e plugin.

PS3 Media Server esegue una transcodifica realtime dei file e, con mio grande stupore, permette anche lo streaming dei formati MKV.

Ovviamente, piu’ alta e’ la qualita’ video dei filmati, maggiore sara’ la potenza di calcolo richiesta dal vostro processore (e’ anche presente il supporto sperimentale per processori a core multiplo). Per i file ad alta definizione e’ anche consigliato avere una rete Gigabit per riuscire a gestire il pesante flusso di dati che deve essere trasferito tra il PC e la PS3.

Di seguito un po’ di feature tratte direttamente dal sito del progetto:

• Ready to launch and play. No codec packs to install. No folder configuration and pre-parsing or this kind of annoying thing. All your folders are directly browsed by the PS3, there’s an automatic refresh also.
• Real-time video transcoding of MKV/FLV/OGM/AVI, etc.
• Direct streaming of DTS / DTS-HD core to the receiver
• Remux H264/MPEG2 video and all audio tracks to AC3/DTS/LPCM in real time with tsMuxer when H264 is PS3/Level4.1 compliant
• Full seeking support when transcoding
• DVD ISOs images / VIDEO_TS Folder transcoder
• OGG/FLAC/MPC/APE audio transcoding
• Thumbnail generation for Videos
• You can choose with a virtual folder system your audio/subtitle language on the PS3!
• Simple streaming of formats PS3 natively supports: MP3/JPG/PNG/GIF/TIFF, all kind of videos (AVI, MP4, TS, M2TS, MPEG)
• Display camera RAWs thumbnails (Canon / Nikon, etc.)
• ZIP/RAR files as browsable folders
• Support for pictures based feeds, such as Flickr and Picasaweb
• Internet TV / Web Radio support with VLC, MEncoder or MPlayer
• Podcasts audio/ Video feeds support
• Basic Xbox360 support
• FLAC 96kHz/24bits/5.1 support
• Only: DVR-MS remuxer and AviSynth alternative transcoder support

E finalmente ecco il link alla pagina del progetto: http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/

Motivo 3

Dando continuidade ao post do n0153, eu Jaunzim me apresento aqui no XMBuzz para falar de uma funcionalidade do PS3 a qual vejo como um verdadeiro show a parte, até mesmo para quem não costuma jogar videogames… A possibilidade de se conectar a Media Servers.

Para quem não sabe, Media Server nada mais é do que um computador dedicado a armazenar diversas formas de mídia digital (audio, vídeo e fotos).
É claro que o seu computador não serve apenas para isso, mas, através desse recurso, você poderá acessar todos os arquivos de mídia de seu PC ou MAC diretamente do seu PS3 sem a necessidade de estar copiando arquivos em dispositivos USB ou gravando cds e dvds. Tudo isso sem gastar 1 mísero mb do HD do seu videogame.

Para ter acesso a essa comodidade é necessário no entanto que você utilize algum software em seu computador para que seja possível fazer essa conexão entre ele e o Ps3, o próprio Windows Media Player 11 faz isso; Mas de todos os programas disponíveis, eu recomendo de longe o PS3 Media Server, pois além de ser o mais user-friendly de todos, ele consegue abrir diversos tipos de arquivos como dvix e até iso’s.

Para habilitar o acesso a Media Servers no seu PS3, basta acessar a opção Setting no XMB

(Ícone do menu Settings)

Dentro do menu de Settings, acesse a sessão Network representada pelo link abaixo:

Nas opções de Rede (network Settings) Você irá encontrar a opção Enable Media Servers (habilitar servidores de mídia), se já não estiver habilitado, ative esse recurso.

O Próximo passo é Instalar o PS3 Media Server. Para isso basta executar o arquivo instalador dele.

Ao instalar o programa basta executa-lo e alguns segundos ele irá detectar o Ps3.

Feito isso, no XMB nas áreas de Fotos, Música e Vídeo estará disponível o acesso ao servidor de mídia, no caso, seu computador.
A partir daí basta curtir tudo no aconchego de seu sofá em uma tela grande.

O download do PS3 Media Server pode ser feito no blog oficial do projeto, no endereço: http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/ e conta com versões para Windows, Mac e Linux.

I always upgrade all of my Apple (s aapl) firmware as soon as the updates become available. I’ve never had a problem with any of the new firmwares, and most of the time they improve whatever product I am upgrading. I’ve never had a problem, that is, until I upgraded my Time Capsule to the 7.4.1 firmware.

I use my Time Capsule as a NAS, not a router, so it stores all of my music, movies, documents and photos…all the important stuff. Since my Time Capsule is being used as an external hard drive for all the computers on the network, it is essential to have a fast connection. If you try to stream a movie or even music from a drive that you do not have a good connection to, the media will be choppy and could eventually stop streaming all together.

Quick tip: To ensure the fastest streaming speeds, if you are using your Time Capsule as a NAS, I would recommend connecting it via Ethernet to your router instead of using the wireless. I have found that the wireless connection is not the best method when using it as NAS.

A few weeks ago I upgraded my Time Capsule to the 7.4.1 software and did not really think much of it. A few days later, my roommate told me they were having trouble streaming music. I thought that was weird, but told them to restart the Time Capsule and the router and then try it again. They restarted both items and told me they were still having trouble.

At this point, I didn’t remember that I had recently upgraded the firmware and was thinking, “This is weird, we haven’t changed anything but my roommate is claiming the network is messed up.” Later that day when I got home I investigated, and sure enough, something wasn’t right. After about an hour of poking around on the network, it finally dawned on me that the only change I’d made was upgrading the firmware, so I decided to downgrade to the previous version, and voila, my problems were gone!

To Downgrade Your Time Capsule Firmware:

1. Open Airport Utility: Applications → Utilities → Airport Utility
2. Find your device in the left-hand column and select the “Manual Setup” button
3. In the “Summary” window that pops up click on the word “Version”
4. In the pop up box that comes up next to the “Upload Version” select “7.3.2″
5. Click “OK”
6. Your Time Capsule will restart and be as good as new!

Frankly, I’m shocked that Apple would release a firmware update that would cripple the hardware and am looking forward to the next revision, which will hopefully address this issue.