Getting your PS3 to connect to your home network

randombar

Lads any suggestions for this? I have a terabyte of stuff on one of the computers in my home network just screaming to be watched/listened to and I can't seem to share it?

I've tried tv versity but it doesnt seem to find it?

stevenmu

Something I've noticed about TVersity is that if it's started before your PS3, your PS3 won't find it. Usually what I'd do is turn on the PS3 then restart TVersity and it picks it up right away.

Also check that you can ping your PS3 from your PC, check firewall settings etc

mathias

This can be quite complicated depending on how your computers are already set up , but in general this is what you need to do ,

Set up file sharing on the computer with the media , this computer will already have to be part of the home network , if its the only computer then , it will have to be set up with either a wireless or a wired network and then set the media folder to share.

Set up T versity as a Upnp server and point it to the folder with the media

Then on the PS3 , on the xmb , select search for media servers , it should find the folder with the media.

Now , thats greatly simplified , as I have no info on what your current set up is ,

Some of the pitfalls you may come across are ,

Windows doesnt like sharing the whole C: drive so if your media is scattered all over it then your going to have to gather it all together so you can share one specific folder ,

Your PC should ideally be set up with a wireless router , note that this can be a modem/router combo as supplied by the likes of eircom , but dont assume that the wireless device you have is already a router.

And so on ....

If you post exactly what you have then it would be much easier to post a specific answer that will get you up and running.

randombar

Hi,

That's basically what I have.

Computer downstairs with wireless card, sharing D,E,F drives on it (music drive, video drive and so on)

Can access the drives no problem on the laptops and computers around the house, do remote log in and the whole lot.

so tversity is still the main way to go ya? thought there would be a more hardwired option where you can actually see the drives and all that!

mathias

T versity is useful in that it can encode on the fly so that the source file is converted to a format thats playable on the destination device, thats its main attraction ,

If you just want to share the files , then the home network on its own can do that , however with high definition content , the speed of your wireless network can come into play and may cause stuttering.

The PS3 , with all the latest updates , plays a lot of content , but there are still some form of Divx files and audio files it cannot play , in this case Tversity is the way to go.

randombar

I'll try reconfiguring the TVersity set up at home.

But how do you share files with the PS3 from the home network without tversity?

guil

to do it without tversity ya have to set up file sharing in windows

randombar

Ya I've done that ages ago! what do you do for the playstation to see them?

stevenmu

The PS3 can't connect to a windows file share. One way around this is to use something like Red Kawa file server, it runs on your PC and you can browse to it in your PS3s web browser to download the files. Haven't tried it myself but it's supposed to work well.

Tversity is probably a better bet though because it will transcode anything the PS3 can't play into a format it can. You shouldn't need to change anything in it's setup, all you really need to do with it is install it and then choose what folders you want it to find media in. Just make sure the port it's using (you should be able to see that in it's settings) isn't blocked by a firewall and make sure you start/restart tversity after starting up your PS3.

mathias

You need to set up a Upnp server , there are many ways to do this , and many programs that will do it , some routers can do it , but basically thats what you need to do , then the PS3 will see it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UPnP_AV_MediaServers

Theres a list of programs in the wiki ,

ongarite

You can also share your media with WMP11. Works the same as sharing media with 360.

Cardinal

How are people having so much trouble with this?

1. Turn on sharing in Windows Media Player.
2. Add the folders containing the video to its library.
3. Never use WMP for any thing else ever again.
4. Connect to media server from PS3.
5. ...
6. Profit.

randombar

Guess I'll go ahead with WMP method, don't really like it but we'll see!

Cardinal

I don't like it either but it is quite simple and once you've turned on sharing and specified the folder in which you keep your music and videos you literally never have to open the program again. Of course, there's probably a service running constantly once you enable sharing and I haven't check but I doubt it uses much of your system resources.

randombar

Ya it's windows media connect I think but sod it you're bound to have to have something open the whole time! Installed it last night remotely so will test tonight!