Serviio is DLNA compliant which basically the same thing as uPNP. PS3 Media Server would display previously downloaded covers, but who has time to search for all of those things. It makes it look like your media collection is on your TV naturally rather than some kind of cheap hack, which really impresses my less techy friends. Having the DVD/BluRay covers is a must for me. It also gets the cover art, so that you scroll through images rather than simply text. It find directors, actors, and other useful info so that you can simply select "Angelina Jolie" and watch all the movies you have with her beautiful presence or hunt for all the movies directed by Micheal Bay. The reason it took so long was Serviio (optionally) extracts the metadata for each file and goes to the Net to find information used to sort the media. I did have to wait quite some time for all my media to show up. Next, I fired up the PS3 and it picked up the server by the time the PS3 booted up. I then pointed the "share" to my external 1 TB, NTFS formatted, drive that is my video collection. I installed Serviio, which was a pretty standard and simple process. I have a pretty puny computer being used as my media server with only 512MB of RAM (its Rhambus memory and its too expensive to add or replace) and PS3 Media Server used most of the resources while it was being used, especially while transcoding.
#Serviio sony movie#
I had a few problems with it crashing on me when trying to view some movie files and it would crash on those specific files every time, regardless of the format, while it would play others in the same format with no problems, so I always assumed it was just a "bad encode" of those files. Previously I have been using Java PS3 Media Server and over all was quite happy with it.
I am absolutely hooked! I have been trying many different servers for quite some time now and I believe I have finally found what I have been looking for.
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