Just read this news about the new 1.80 PS3 firmware...

"The new PS3 firmware will also allow users on a home network to seamlessly view and play images, music and video on their PS3, that is stored on their DLNA3 enabled devices such as PCs and laptops elsewhere in the house, the company said."

http://www.smarthouse.com.au/Gaming/Console/J5G8K4P5

I can imagine when the price comes down significantly that the PS3 will make a nice alternative frontend for playing recording and ripped movies from a KM backend. The fact that its a blu-ray player as well and will now upscale dvds to HD will make it a nice little (or medium) sized addition to my lounge room. Oh, I've heard its good for games too

You also can't forget how good these are at folding proteins

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Girkers

Is there a linux server for streaming this stuff that can be added to my myth box? It would be awsome to be able to stream stuff from my mytht to my PS3

KnoppMyth is automatically set to be a UPNP server, i.e. http://www.mythtv.org/wiki/index.php/UPnP

In doing a little more research I find this tid bit contained in the linked wiki article:

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Girkers

goldenfri,

I would have thought that a combonation of MythPretty and Samba on your mythtv box would do the trick but after googling abit more, I don't think the PS3 can simply access a network share.

Apparently TwonkyVision (non-free) support the PS3 in their new beta version, so that might be an option. Hopefully someone will come up with a DLNA linux server soon.

http://www.twonkyvision.de/forum/viewtopic.php?t=3066&highlight=ps3

BTW, Heres an article with some screenshots of the PS3 playing music. Apparently it uses 175 watts to do this!

http://www.hardcoreware.net/ps3-18-firmware-streams-music-photos-and-video-from-vista/


Regards,

Owen

It appears MediaTomb just added support for the PS3. I've never used it, but unlike Twonky, it's GPL.

http://mediatomb.cc/changelog.txt