Just starting to get into the digital media center thing and have been researching various devices such as tvix, popcorn hour, etc. But now my Playstation 3 has new streaming support and I think it's enough for my needs. I basically just want to rip all my DVD's to .vob on my computer and stream to my plasma. I have done this with a few of my DVD's (dvdshrink to one large .vob file, serve with tversity) and it seems to work fine (except fast forwarding froze the video in Star Wars, but I just stop and play again to fix it). I realize some of the other players can play more formats, but I'm not really interested in those since I want uncompressed/no quality loss. DVD's already look bad enough on my 58", no need for compression. Actually, I would really like a way to backup my 50 or so blu-ray/hd-dvd's and stream, but it looks like there are no devices that do this yet. Anyway, is my PS3+tversity setup good enough for streaming .vob's, or am I missing something that the other devices offer?

to my knowledge the PS3 only supports compressed files such as Divx and Xvid among a few others.

You are going to get the same functionality out of a 360 for less money and better interfacing. But personally the other video players offer a much better solution and support many more formats.

I recently got a PS3, but still watch all my movies on my mediagate mg350hd. The PS3 just isn't there yet as a media streamer.

I'm using tversity too, and it works so-so, but is problematic.

The PS3 won't stream divx (yet). It'll stream mpeg2 and mpeg4/AVC and a few other formats natively, and you'll need to transcode others (decode it on the PC w/tversity and re-encode it on the fly).

I have managed to rip one BD (bridge to terabithia, an AVC-encoded BD) onto an external USB drive and copy it to the PS3's internal drive. I haven't tried it over the network, which is an eventual goal. I have not had any luck getting VC1 content to play though.

Divx support added in latest firmware.

tested yesterday, out of 3 files, only one was playable

tested yesterday, out of 3 files, only one was playable

Could you be a little more specific please? Like which encoder you used, and what the encoding options were for the file which worked and the ones that did not.

For some people, that one file that did work might be the same codec with the same settings they've used to encode their entire library of 10,000 files, and they've now got 10,000 files that will play back w/no problems.

Also, what was the container? AVI, MP4, or other?

sorry jhue :D
avi container to test with dvix on the ps3

dint did any encoding, as it is
will post up the divx type later if possible

hi def avi and hi def wmv work for me

So neither PS3 nor XBOX 360 (or Wii for that matter) will handle Video_TS .VOB streamed over ether then?

So neither PS3 nor XBOX 360 (or Wii for that matter) will handle Video_TS .VOB streamed over ether then?


Right, and that's never going to happen.
If you want a device to do that, you have to go with a real digital media machine like a D-link DSM series or one of the thousands of others people here use (they are more economical IMO)

I would also like to know how to use this as a media centre