XBMC for Windows and PS3 Media Server
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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
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#2
Why would you want to use PS3 Media Server to share to XBMC? XBMC does not need anything transcoded. Just use Windows Sharing (SMB).
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#3
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?
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#4
Don't know, works for me over here. I'm watching an MKV inside PS3MS/XBMC
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#5
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.as...6834131323
Basic avg anti-virus
Allowed to go through firewall.

What gives?
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#6
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 Wink )

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... Wink )

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... Smile
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#7
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)
# Refer to PS3.conf for help

RendererName=BDV-E370
RendererIcon=C:\\Program Files (x86)\\PS3 Media Server\\BDV-E370.png
UserAgentSearch=UPnP/1.0 DLNADOC/1.50
UserAgentAdditionalHeader=X-AV-Client-Info
UserAgentAdditionalHeaderSearch=(cn="Sony Corporation"; mn="Blu-ray Home Theatre System")



Video=true
Audio=true
Image=true
SeekByTime=false
TranscodeVideo=MPEGTSAC3
TranscodeAudio=LPCM
DefaultVBVBufSize=true
MuxH264ToMpegTS=false
MuxDTSToMpeg=false
WrapDTSIntoPCM=false
MuxLPCMToMpeg=false
MaxVideoBitrateMbps=0
MaxVideoWidth=0
MaxVideoHeight=0
H264Level41Limited=true
#MimeTypesChanges=
DLNALocalizationRequired=true
#TranscodeExtensions=
#StreamExtensions=
MediaParserV2_ThumbnailGeneration=false

# For Sony Bluray players and Bravia TVs
ForceJPGThumbnails=true
# For Sony Bluray players
ChunkedTransfer=true

# Specs below taken from http://www.sony.co.uk/product/blu-ray-di...nicalSpecs
# then fine-tuned by lengthy trial and error since so much of that advertised spec is inaccurate.
# US models don't support video/divx mime type but European and Canadian models do.
# Subtitles in mkv files are only displayed if mime type is video/divx.
# Vob subtitles are not supported.
# See also http://forum.serviio.org/viewtopic.php?f=11&t=2004 for more DLNA-related info on these players.

MediaInfo=true
# --- video ---
Supported = f:mpegps|mpegts v:mpeg1|mpeg2 a:ac3|dts|lpcm|mpa|mp3 m:video/mpeg
Supported = f:mpegts v:h264|vc1 a:ac3|dts|dtshd|truehd|aac|lpcm|mpa|mp3 m:video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts
Supported = f:mp4|m4v v:mp4|h264 a:ac3|dts|dtshd|truehd|aac|lpcm|mpa|mp3 m:video/mpeg
######### NON-US MODELS: CHANGE THE FOLLOWING 2 MIME-TYPES TO m:video/divx
Supported = f:avi|divx v:divx|mp4 a:ac3|lpcm|mpa|mp3 m:video/mpeg
Supported = f:mkv v:mp4|divx|h264 a:ac3|dts|dtshd|truehd|aac|lpcm|mpa|mp3 m:video/vnd.dlna.mpeg-tts
# --- audio ---
Supported = f:wma n:2 m:audio/mpeg
Supported = f:mp3 n:2 m:audio/mpeg
Supported = f:lpcm n:2 s:48000 m:audio/L16
# --- image ---
Supported = f:jpg m:image/jpeg


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.
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