Help Ps3 / dlna / nas

[Bodhi]

I think this is the direction i'm forced to go down.

One thing about my media setup, is that I want CD quality audio, and by that I mean the proper full CD quality instead of compressed. This leaves me WMA lossless, FLAC or plain old WAV rips. Sadly, WAV doesn't support tagging although all my CDs are ripped to WAV. I did plan on re-ripping it all to WMA lossless to have a) proper CD quality bit-rate and b) tagged audio files.

I find out tonight that the fucking PS3 doesn't support WMA lossless, even thought it supports WMA (just not the all important lossless part). That is a real fucking pain in the pisser, I can't tell you how frustrating it was to find that out. After a lot of digging on the web, lack of lossless support (FLAC and WMA lossless) is pissing a large amount of people off.

At risk of saying "the PS3 has aids", it might be the best route to be running a media PC that I can fully configure to do what I need it to do. I really don't want a PC running 24/7, but I don't see much choice.

I had hopes that Twonky on that Icy Box would take care of some conversion of the WMA lossless to stream to PS3, but it looks like it won't.

TVersity seems to do the trick in this respect, but I understand that'll need to run from a PC 24/7? Additionally, I might lose the tag functionality if TVersity does some sort of WMA -> WAV/PCM conversion thingy, but at least my audio library is in the format I want it to be until fucking Sony get their act together and sort out this LOSSLESS FUCK ABOUT.

GRRR.

Edit: reading up on this foobar2000 thing - foo_upnp - Hydrogenaudio Forums

Do not use TVersity, it is also an enormous steaming pile of gay.

PS3 Media Server

Doesn;t need anything else installed except Java. Currently using it to stream FLAC flavoured goodness to my PS3 which is hooked up via the A/V multi-out to my hi-fi. They sound abso-fucking-lutely superb.

 

[old.user4556]

I love you Bodhi. I don't tell you enough I feel.

 

[nath]

I love you Bodhi. I don't tell you enough I feel.

How long has this been going on, Bods? WERE YOU GOING TO EVER FUCKING TELL ME?

 

[Bodhi]

Uh-oh. The missus has found out about you G.

 

[Ch3tan]

Bods, did you change any of the default settings in ps3mediaserver to get a better quality sound / picture? Apart from installing all the codecs it uses, I have not messed with anything.

 

[Trem]

Do not use TVersity, it is also an enormous steaming pile of gay.

PS3 Media Server

I also hated TVersity and I loved ps3mediaserver....until it decided to stop working and no amount of messing/reinstalling cured that, it really pissed me off as I found it ubersome.

 

[Bodhi]

Bods, did you change any of the default settings in ps3mediaserver to get a better quality sound / picture? Apart from installing all the codecs it uses, I have not messed with anything.

Nope just a plain install pretty much. Just set it up to remux rather than transcode on HD content, as my old P4 doesn't like transcoding HD much.

 

[Ch3tan]

I also hated TVersity and I loved ps3mediaserver....until it decided to stop working and no amount of messing/reinstalling cured that, it really pissed me off as I found it ubersome.

Dude, I've installed it for 5 people now, and it's worked for all of them. I think this is another case of you Treming it up (TM).

 

[old.user4556]

Gents,

Just to take this discussion a slightly different route, I have a smashing Ahanix HTPC case with an Athlon 3200+, an nvidia 8600 GT and 1 GB of RAM to which I was going to plonk in my old 120 GB Western Digital drive for the OS then get the RAID card as suggested by Bodhi + 2 SATA drives. This currently lives in my cupboard as a project that never came to light for a media PC, but I'm going to bring it back to life for the very purposes as discussed so far.

Questions:

1) Recommend me a reasonably priced (under £50 if poss) RAID card (needs to be PCI, mobo is an Abit AN7) ?
2) I can use remote desktop to control that box that lives in a cupboard (so I don't need a monitor connected) and feed it a 'shutdown' command to turn it off remotely, but what options to I have for waking it up remotely?

 

[Ch3tan]

wake up on lan?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wake-on-LAN

 

[Cyradix]

I'm think of getting one of those ion based boards and sticking it in something like this : X-Case Atomic Cube
From what I've read they can handle 1080p and HD sound while only using about 30-40 watt

 

[old.user4556]

wake up on lan?

Wake-on-LAN - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Ta,

Anything on:

1) Recommend me a reasonably priced (under £50 if poss) RAID card (needs to be PCI, mobo is an Abit AN7) ?

 

[Trem]

Dude, I've installed it for 5 people now, and it's worked for all of them. I think this is another case of you Treming it up (TM).

Hey fuck you!

It worked great for ages then I didn't go on my PS3 for a while then it got all gay and wouldn't pick up my PS3. I blamed bodhi but now I blame you, tell me, would you like me to try and split the atom by it to fix it?

 

[Moriath]

i dont see anything wrong with

Novatech 2 Port SATA Raid Controller Card PCI : novatech.co.uk : NOV-SATAR

or the pci express alternative on the same page

much of a muchness imo if they have raid 0 its all you need

 

[soze]

I keep thinking of one of these ML110 4 bays raid and should have some decent bios options for power saving.

 

[Ch3tan]

Hey fuck you!

It worked great for ages then I didn't go on my PS3 for a while then it got all gay and wouldn't pick up my PS3. I blamed bodhi but now I blame you, tell me, would you like me to try and split the atom by it to fix it?

What did you change Trem, did you change your router? Reinstall windows? Change some network settings on your pc? Windows firewall blocking the program maybe?

 

[Vae]

What did you change Trem, did you change your router? Reinstall windows? Change some network settings on your pc? Windows firewall blocking the program maybe?

You missed out the more obvious options: Set fire to the PS3? Drop a house on it? Sever the network wires with a chainsaw? Install a large satelite dish blocking all wireless signals?

 

[Ch3tan]

You missed out the more obvious options: Set fire to the PS3? Drop a house on it? Sever the network wires with a chainsaw? Install a large satelite dish blocking all wireless signals?

Note the obvious flaw in your logic Vae; had Trem done any of those things we would have had a thread from him moaning about the loss of a limb. As he has not blamed me for an injury recently, I can only conclude that Samm is keeping an eye on him.

 

[Trem]

Note the obvious flaw in your logic Vae; had Trem done any of those things we would have had a thread from him moaning about the loss of a limb. As he has not blamed me for an injury recently, I can only conclude that Samm is keeping an eye on him.

Keeping a fucking eye on me? Yeah right, she has damaged me more in the last week than you ever have.

Swiss army knifed my ear to remove a spot, asked her to trim my neck hair which involved her continuing down my back popping spots as she went and trimming all my crack fluff and this morning she has popped another spot which hurt more than losing a bollock to a hammer.

I didn't change anything with my PC Ch3t, its all good now because the NAS is sexual in every way.

 

[old.user4556]

Just found out my Abit AN7 has SATA and supports RAID right off the mobo. Shows you when i last looked at the manual.

 

[MYstIC G]

Never?

 

[old.user4556]

Damn right!

 

[dysfunction]

The WD media player will now be even better with networking capabilities!!

Western Digital WDBAAP0000NBK-EESN WD-TV Live MKV/H.264/.ISO (+More) Media PLAYER -HOT!! - Scan.co.uk

I'll be getting one of these....

 

[Cyradix]

Hmm... that WD thingie looks really great

 

[Ch3tan]

It is fairly cheap, I wonder how upgradeable it is to new formats and how quiet it runs. Not worth it if you already own a ps3 or 360.

 

[dysfunction]

There are firmware upgrades and these people do custom upgrades if you are brave

WDTV Forum - WDTV Media Player - Index

 

[soze]

Depending on how noisy it is and if it browses a NTFS formatted disk i will get one of these to browse my 1080p Media.

 

[Insane]

drop.io wdtvlive
(for the user guide for the new WDTV Live)

it states on page 9 of the user guide that it supports NTFS, FAT/FAT32 and HFS+ on usb drives
(im going to assume this is read-only mode as well)

 

[soze]

I have been thinking about these but then i saw this Acer R3610 Revo - Atom 330 Dual Core - 160GB HD - 1GB RAM - Linux - £154.20 - HotUKDeals Forum and can't help but think for £50 more it might be a better idea.