Miyako (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gokugirl) wrote,@ 2009-02-01 21:30:00 |
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I've been using TVersity media server since about September to stream my anime from my mother's computer to my PS3 so that I can watch it on the HDTV. Besides her computer being pretty new, it has multiple processors and a huge hard drive. By contrast, my poor laptop is three years old, has only one processor and only a 100GB hard drive. My PS3 had been almost decorative up to that point because I only had one game (the stupid things are too expensive). I stumbled across the concept of media servers in an old PC World magazine in the doctor's office and inwardly jumped for joy.
It took a lot of tweaking but I can get it to play every format that I've tried so far. The only problems left to overcome is getting the subtitles in MKV files to show up and getting dual audio files to automatically play in Japanese instead of English. So far, one of the only sure-fire way to get subtitles to work in TVersity is to extract them from the file and save them in another one. There is no way I'm doing that for every anime MKV file I have so I decided to try using another program just for these files.
I just tried PS3 Media Server and, holy crap, the subtitles are there! They'd better be since the guy who made this also had trouble with embedded subtitles and TVersity. They're a little cut off on the bottom but that happens to everything I stream, for some reason (the extreme left and right portions are usually cut off as well). I thought I was going to have to download the non-HD Xvid version instead. I used to only get the Xvid version before TVersity because MKVs never played correctly on my computer.
(As an aside, DivX files can now be played natively by the PS3 if you install the latest firmware which makes the entire process more user-friendly, let me tell you. When you stream a file and it has to be transcoded, it doesn't like it when you try to rewind or fast-forward.)
Now I have a decision to make. Do I watch episode #2 of Kuro Shitsuji or do I continue to work on the essay about The Tale of Genji that's due on Wednesday? Hmm, such a tough decision!
It took a lot of tweaking but I can get it to play every format that I've tried so far. The only problems left to overcome is getting the subtitles in MKV files to show up and getting dual audio files to automatically play in Japanese instead of English. So far, one of the only sure-fire way to get subtitles to work in TVersity is to extract them from the file and save them in another one. There is no way I'm doing that for every anime MKV file I have so I decided to try using another program just for these files.
I just tried PS3 Media Server and, holy crap, the subtitles are there! They'd better be since the guy who made this also had trouble with embedded subtitles and TVersity. They're a little cut off on the bottom but that happens to everything I stream, for some reason (the extreme left and right portions are usually cut off as well). I thought I was going to have to download the non-HD Xvid version instead. I used to only get the Xvid version before TVersity because MKVs never played correctly on my computer.
(As an aside, DivX files can now be played natively by the PS3 if you install the latest firmware which makes the entire process more user-friendly, let me tell you. When you stream a file and it has to be transcoded, it doesn't like it when you try to rewind or fast-forward.)
Now I have a decision to make. Do I watch episode #2 of Kuro Shitsuji or do I continue to work on the essay about The Tale of Genji that's due on Wednesday? Hmm, such a tough decision!
