More Playstation 3 Media fun
As I’m sure anyone who read my previous comment on the topic can tell, the Playstation 3 is currently fairly esoteric in what it supports as far as media types for video playback. From as far as I can tell, Sony (nor Microsoft for that matter) has not licensed DivX, and while rumors abound that they have been talking to the DivX folks I’m not holding my breath. In that vein I have been looking for DLNA UPnP media servers that do transcoding. The sad reality is that currently no one does (for Linux at least, nor Mac OSX as far as I have found). The only project that seems to come close is MediaTomb, and they have an open SourceForge feature request for transcoding that seems to be expected to be finished soon.
So I installed MediaTomb 0.10.0 on my Slackware 11 server and after installing libmagic from an external package repository, I had it up and serving data.
If you use Windows (which thank God, I don’t) then you have some choices (list, Wiki Article, Wikipedia Article), including a few free ones that do transcoding.
Once Mediatomb makes a release with transcoding support I’ll get it setup and let everyone know how it went.
Tags: PlayStation 3, technology