PS3 Firmware 2.10 and Mediatomb
PS3 Firmware update 2.10 brought VC-1 and DivX playback (finally) to the PS3 natively. Now I have been playing back my 400GiB DivX/XviD/h264 collection via transcoding for quite some time now using the development branch of mediatomb. Now when I setup mediatomb it autodetected .avi as the mime-type of video/x-msvideo, the PS3 doesn’t recognize that mime-type. That was fine since I was on the fly transcoding it to MPEG2, but the PS3 wants video/avi. So I changed the config.xml file to include a new mapping and I removed the transcoder mapping for the video/avi and video/x-msvideo mime-types:
<mappings>
<extension-mimetype ignore-unknown="no">
<map from="avi" to="video/avi"/>
...
</extension>
</mappings>
Then I deleted the shared folders from the db and rescanned, since I use inotify the mime-type mappings in the db won’t automatically update unless the kernel tells mediatomb the file changed.
So far, I have gotten native VC-1 and DivX playback working on files up to 720p.
Hooray Sony, just hooray. Now if we can have messaging and music playback working in game it would be everything I could hope for in a system. It is a fantastically powerful system and I am ever gladder that I replaced the XBMC box with it.
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