PS3 Media Server - Playstation 3 Full HD Movie Player

In addition to my previous post, I’ve also tried “PS3 Media Player“, which seems like a better match; in my tests it played less movie formats but the ones it did play (about 80% of the ones TVersity did), it did it in greater quality and with less resources on the serverside. So check out which features and quality are the best for you. I use both next to eachother.

TVersity and Playstation 3 - Full HD Transcoding

I wanted to watch some movies on my PS3, therefore I was in need of something that could stream my movies to my PS3 and making them suitable for the PS3 ‘on-the-fly’, this process is called ‘transcoding’. So here’s my guide to get it working.

You need a fast PC. In my case an Intel Core2 Quad Q9550; and you need your PS3 to have a wired connection to your network!
To get things working do the following:

1. Install the K-Lite Mega Codec Pack
2. Install TVersity
3. Click Start, Run, and type ’services.msc’, go to the TVersityMediaServer service, click the Log On tab and change the so that the service will log on under your current account (in my case Administrator)
4. Start TVersity and configure as desired.
5. Stop TVersity including the service.
6. In the installation directory of TVersity you’ll find the config.xml file, modify the highlited values:

   <transcode when="pprofile" optimize="quality" connectionSpeed="WIRED_HIGH" downsampleForConnectionSpeed="false" audioCompressionRatio="8" videoCompressionRatio="18" disableDecodingClock="true" wmProfile="wmv8" wmEncodeDShow="true">
   <maxVideoInfo width="1920" height="1080" bitrate="10000000" fps="30"></maxVideoInfo>
   <minVideoInfo width="0" height="0" bitrate="0" fps="24"></minVideoInfo>
   <maxAudioInfo sampleRate="48000" bitsperSample="16" bitrate="384000" nchannels="6"></maxAudioInfo>
   <minAudioInfo sampleRate="32000" bitsperSample="0" bitrate="0" nchannels="1"></minAudioInfo>
   <maxImageInfo width="1920" height="1080"></maxImageInfo>
   </transcode>

7. Start the service again.

And you’re set; now TVersity will transcode most movies to your PS3 in good HD quality. Transcoding will always incur quality loss.