This $100 USD Plug Computer may seem intimidating to some at first due to its lack of a visual interface, but fear not, this series of tutorials should help familiarize anybody with the command line. It can be purchased online from Global Scale Technologies. I have found that Marvell's SheevaPlug is the perfect candidate for a home media server. For about $100 USD and an external hard drive you can set up a media server that streams to all the computers and gaming consoles in your house providing you with media wherever you are.
If you'd like to have PS3MS startup when you log into Ubuntu desktop you can simply add /usr/bin/ps3mediaserver (or PMS.Over the next few days I will be posting a series of tutorials on setting up a kick ass media server that is cheap, powerful, tiny and dead silent. In the Navigation/Share Settings add any folders of media you would like to share for example ~/Videos and ~/Music In the General Configuration tab Under Network Settings choose the network interface you want to stream your media from (ex wlan0, lan0, etc) You maybe want to tick Start Minimized. Finally just double click on PMS.sh and choose run to start the program! Do the same thing for a file called tsMuxeR which is in a sub-folder called linux. Navigate to that folder, right click on PMS.sh and choose properties now in Permissions allow it to be executed. tgz file you just downloaded and select extract here. Navigate to your home directory, right cilck on the. Grab the latest version of Playstation 3 Media Server and save it on you home directory Mencoder ffmpeg mplayer vlc sun-java6-jre
Or you can click on these packages individually if you'd prefer to avoid the terminal:
#Setting up ps3 media server install
Sudo apt-get install mencoder ffmpeg mplayer vlc openjdk-6-jre Sudo apt-get install mencoder ffmpeg mplayer vlc sun-java6-jre PMS requires the following packages: MEncoder, Mplayer, FFMpeg, and Sun's Java Running PS3 Medias Server with unsupported ffmpeg or mencoder like following method suggests may cause numerous bugs! That's why it is highly recommended to install it from PPA (see above) bundled with all necessary tools independent from ssytem-wide binaries or build dependencies from source with provided contrib/build-pms-binaries.sh script. Important notice! PS3 Media Server requires specific versions of ffmpeg, mplayer, mencoder and libmediainfo different from those available via official Ubuntu repository. etc/init.d/ps3mediaserver /etc/default/ps3mediaserver (startup options) $HOME/.config/ps3mediaserver/PMS.conf $HOME/.config/ps3mediaserver/WEB.conf Now you should see PS3 Media Server tray icon. To enable icons for all applications open Terminal and enter this command: gsettings set systray-whitelist "" If system tray icon is missingįrom version 11.04 upwards Ubuntu has known bug (Canonical insists its a feature) when Unity desktop hides system tray icons for some applications. Don't forget to restart GUI server after update.įor more information visit official forum. Now you can run PS3 Media Server from Applications -> Audio and Video. You can install PS3 Media Server (and keep it up to date) with these commands: sudo add-apt-repository ppa:happy-neko/ps3mediaserver Note that the repository might not contain the very latest version. Supported Ubuntu versions are 10.04 LTS (Lucid) and higher. It's backed up with the powerful Mplayer/FFmpeg packages. PMS is written in Java, with the purpose of streaming or transcoding any kind of media files, with minimum configuration. PS3 Media Server is a DLNA compliant Upnp Media Server originally written for the PS3, now supports Xbox360, Sony Bravia, Popcorn Hour, Samsung Wiselink, Freebox HD & others. Stream Media to your DLNA compliant devices.
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