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XBMC for Windows and PS3 Media Server - tangopapa - 2012-01-29 Hi all, Been scouring through the forums and have been unable to find an answer... Im running the latest version of PS3MS and have been trying to get a XBMC on a remote PC to connect n play the files with no luck. I am able to connect and even see the folders. However I do not see the list of movie files within the folder. ,I can see the #transcode folder and even see the list of files that can b transcoded. These dont play either. PS3MS also doesnt seem to detect XBMC as the render(WMP) instead... i havent made any changes to the conf file. Anyone else experienced this before? Any help would be very much appreciated!!! Tango - Ned Scott - 2012-01-30 Why would you want to use PS3 Media Server to share to XBMC? XBMC does not need anything transcoded. Just use Windows Sharing (SMB). - tangopapa - 2012-02-01 Because I don't want to share my folders to some of the machines in the household. I want to maintain one Media Server (PS3MS) and have the rest connect to that. XBMC seems to be the only piece of Windows software that has dlna capabilities but I can't get it to work. Does it work or does it not work? - Jean0987654321 - 2012-02-05 Don't know, works for me over here. I'm watching an MKV inside PS3MS/XBMC RE: XBMC for Windows and PS3 Media Server - Qwertypants122 - 2012-12-30 Spent an hour looking for a solution as well. Google is our friend but searching and wording this in forum format was kinda difficult to find/describe. OP hit it on the head. Sadly this will get buried , nearly a year old response... Latest version of PS3MS Latest versions Eden and frodo. Couldn't play any file, only option was to #trancode the file, and nothing played, Mki,avi,mp4. Mind you this works on my other pc in the house. Win7 x86 Ended up sharing out my drives via SMB . Agree with OP sharing out via SMB is silly, it should just work. Trying this on a win7 x64 laptop. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16834131323 Basic avg anti-virus Allowed to go through firewall. What gives? RE: XBMC for Windows and PS3 Media Server - Livor - 2013-08-17 altough the thread is a bit old already I want to contribute a bit to the problem (especially because I suffer from it as well ) I got the exact same situation with the empty folders, but i figured something (weird) out. At first my whole situation with three systems: PC (W7 64 bit) running PS3 Media Server Laptop A (W7 64 bit) running xbmc, everything seems to work like a charm Laptop B (W7 64 bit) running xbmc, empty folders like explained in the first post PMS & xbmc installed last week (therefore pretty recent builds I guess... ) After hours of trying and crying I found the following weird workaround for Laptop B: 1. Start both systems, including PMS & xbmc 2. using xbmc: select "videos->files->PS3 Media Server" (just so that a few of those nasty empty folders are listed) 3. restart PS3 Media Server (not with the "restart"-Button though, completely shut down the server application and start it again) 4. hopefully the PMS recognizes xbmc and it all now works as intended note: step 2 seems to vary a bit sometimes, not sure what's going on there... Hopefully this helps someone to find a better solution ... or at least just helps someone... RE: XBMC for Windows and PS3 Media Server - mickeym191 - 2014-10-11 Though this post is long past it's proper expiration date, I did experience the same "empty folder" problem last night and stumbled upon this thread while searching for a fix. I thought I'd post my solution. My issue arose from using a custom PS3MS renderer config file for a Sony Blu-Ray player that used a user-agent search to find the device. Quote:# ps3mediaserver renderer profile for Sony Bluray Disc Players (2010 Bravia Internet Video-enabled models) The problem was that my XBMC renderer was falsely identified as the custom renderer, and PS3MS was serving it the files in a way incompatible with XBMC. You can determine this by checking the logs to see which render is identified at the IP address of your XBMC client machine. Quote:Renderer XBMC found on this address: Client-PC (192.168.1.100) The issue arises because the renderer config files are processed alphabetically and the custom config caught the XBMC machine before it reached the XBMC.conf file, so I renamed the incorrectly assigned renderer config to be processed after the XBMC.conf file. (ie. BDV-370 to zBDV-370) Hopefully this is help to anyone else that experiences the same issue. |