Tversity + PS3 = Perfect Streaming Media Player

25 Jun 2007

I have been using Tversity with the Xbox 360 for awhile and have had very few complaints. Recently I upgraded the PS3 firmware and the latest version of Tversity and it was up and going with no configuration. The PS3 interface really shines when browsing through Music, Movies and Photos on the PS3. I am able to browse music by Album, Artist and Genre as well as Genre – Artist and Genre – Album, a feature that was killing me using it on the Xbox 360. I was having a hard time navigating 50,000+ tunes on the 360 without a way to drill down by Genre. The 360 has the Genre feature, but it once you go in, it lists all songs with no way to sort by artist/album.

One thing I still don’t understand is the sorting. When I do pull up an album or even group of songs by artist alone, they aren’t sorted by album or track order. I am not sure why that is.

Regardless of these shortcomings, if you have a PC with your tunes and vids as well as a PS3, you are doing yourself a great disservice by not installing Tversity on your machine. The PS3 is the perfect home media box for streaming from a PC.

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25 Responses to Tversity + PS3 = Perfect Streaming Media Player

September 22nd, 2007 at 12:59 pm

Hey dude,

I’ve tried to get my PS3 (1.93) to connect to my TVersity server (0.9.10.7) but with no success. I have set the Media Playback Device to Sony Playstation 3 in the Settings tab.

Entering http://localhost:41952/medialib/browse will allow me to browse my Audio/Photo/Video content on my PC without any problem and this can also be done using the flash interface.

I have previously used TwonkyVision and my PS3 was able to detect that immediately and I was steaming content without so much as a hicup, but now I’m not even close to getting my PS3 talking to TVersity so any help you can give me will be appreciated.

Best Regards

Ken

October 8th, 2007 at 8:02 am

I had problems getting my PS3 to find DLNA pc because of the firewall setup on the pc. If you are running a firewall (I hope you are), perhaps you need to adjust your firewall settings.

Brian

December 17th, 2007 at 6:00 am

I’ve just installed Tversity and after a few adjustments in the set up I was able to view *.mkv files in full resolution on my PS3, it’s the best streamer for a PS3

#Az
You have to use 2.** software on your PS3

Mike

January 3rd, 2008 at 9:41 am

Tversity is the best streamer for the PS3 indeed

Joe

January 4th, 2008 at 3:52 am

I have tried using Tversity a million times and my ps3 can’t detect it no matter what I do, please help.

wolfsheim23

February 29th, 2008 at 10:11 pm

If you have trouble with TVersity on the PS3. I found this in the FAQs on the Tversity website. It tells you how to make sure that on your PC you can put the Wireless or LAN connection that you use at the top of the list. This helps PS3 find it. To do this,

* Goto to the Windows Start menu and slect Setting / Network Connections (alternatively open the Network Connections icon from the Windows control panel). This should open a window titled Network Connections.
* In this window go to the main menu and select Advanced / Advanced Settings. This should open a window titled Advanced Settings.
* In this window make sure the Adapters and Bindings tab is selected. Inside this tab under Connections change the order of the network interfaces such that the one you need is first and then click OK.
* Now restart the media server and check if the problem is solved.

Here is the same for Vista:

* Click Start > Network > Network Center > Manage network connections > Click Organize > Layout > click “Classic Menus” > click Advanced (drop down menu)
* Select the adapter whose Binding Order you wish to change in the Connections box.
* Use the arrows on the right side of the Binding for to order the protocols.
* Press OK.
* If you are prompted to restart, press Yes.

You can find more help here, just search for the PS3 parts on the page.
http://tversity.com/support/faq/

The above worked for me.

nick

May 27th, 2008 at 10:09 am

so i added a folder to my tversity server and other computers see it but not my ps3. all the other files and folders i can see and the video format works. any thoughts?
oh ive restarted the server and my ps3.

Mitur Binesderty

June 3rd, 2008 at 5:24 am

If you think the PS3 + TVersity is the perfect media streamer you’ve never tried an original Xbox + Xbox Media Center (not the Microsoft version, the free version that only works on hacked boxes, xbmc.org).

It amazes me that something that people do for free on a last gen box is SO much better than what we have today. I’ve got 2 old Xbox 1’s I just use for media streaming and nothing can beat them.

Shininggg

June 9th, 2008 at 8:02 pm

I think the main point in Tversity is that you don’t have to reencode your media library to make it readable by the ps3. It automatically reencode media that aren’t compatible like those famous Xvid that you think are DivX…

I had my entire cd collection ripped in flac format and tversity stream it as pcm on the go no lag even wireless.

For those who have trouble with the media server detection if you are behind a router (you should be) you need to forward the port because upnp is really sucky… Just go to portforwarding.com choose your router brand, ps3 and follow the tutorial.

Hameed

August 7th, 2008 at 3:00 pm

Hallo.Do I need any other hardware besides a PS3 and a PC?

Nate

September 13th, 2008 at 11:02 am

There are other streaming clients available out there for you to use. Twonkymedia, Orb, Fuppes, EyeConnect, Nero MediaHome, etc. While Tversity is nice being free, I gladly paid the $40 for Twonkymedia and never looked back.

If you need help setting up any of these streaming clients I have, take a look at @ http://blog.hillbillyhardare.net and just click on the PS3 tab.

eltaco

October 15th, 2008 at 1:53 am

@Wolfsheim23

man, you saved my bacon there. I’ve been fiddling around with tversity for the past 5 days, trying to wokr out why media since the upgrade won’t play on my ps3. I’d totally forgotten I’d mucked around with those settings for hamachi when gaming recently. it all works again. thanks man

Amit

October 27th, 2008 at 3:38 am

Hi I just want to know by browsing files on your PC Hard drive via your PS3 using TVersity, does it affect your internet download, i.e will it upload/ download file therefore using your ISP cap? Or is it all via the Wireless LAN?

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December 18th, 2008 at 9:55 pm

Tversity is the best streamer for the PS3. It’s powerful by itself.

joe

January 8th, 2009 at 5:12 am

i would like to point you to the best media server for your ps3 at the moment and the best news it’s totaly free !!!

it put tversity and twonky in the corner. this software is the best and the only thing you need. you can browse your pc structure like you would normaly do and many more. dvd support, stream direct from iso’s zip files and more

http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/

this baby can do anything :

* Ready to launch and play. No codec packs to install. No folder configuration and pre-parsing or this kind of annoying thing. All your folders are directly browsed by the PS3, there’s an automatic refresh also.
* Real-time video transcoding via MEncoder, tsMuxer or Avisynth
* DVD ISOs images / VIDEO_TS Folder transcoder
* OGG/FLAC/MPC/APE audio transcoding
* Thumbnail generation for Videos
* You can choose with a virtual folder system your audio/subtitle language on the PS3!
* All formats PS3 natively supports: MP3/WMA, JPG/PNG/GIF/TIFF, and all kind of videos (AVI, MP4, TS, M2TS, MPEG) the ps3 is willing to play
* ZIP/RAR files as browsable folders for pictures/audio files
* Preliminary support for pictures based feeds, such as Flickr and Picasaweb
* Preliminary Internet TV / Web Radio support with VLC, MEncoder or MPlayer

Windows Only:

* Lossless 5.1 PCM transcoding with DTS movies

greg

February 13th, 2009 at 3:14 pm

My OpenVPN connection was at the top, moved the main network connection up and it now works!

There is no way in hell I would ever have worked that out – thanks.

Xae

February 22nd, 2009 at 3:29 pm

@Joe

Does it play .mkv ?

Andy

March 10th, 2009 at 8:55 am

Thanks that priority things is helpful.

Dan

March 12th, 2009 at 12:20 pm

Yes it does play .mkv. files but you have to convert the audio IF it is not in AC3 format. Best thing to do is just download the file already using AC3 =) but it plays it perfectly…with awesome quality!!

Jim

March 25th, 2009 at 5:17 pm

Thanks For Your Help. IT WORKED!!!

Thanks Again Mate, Would Of Never Figured That Out.

Sysgod

May 25th, 2009 at 11:59 pm

Why go through all that trouble? lol

Download and install PS3 Media Server. It will play anything your throw at it including rar and iso files with video files within. By far the best solutions. Give it a shot! http://rapidshare.com/files/237312598/pms-setup-windows-1.10.51.exe

Aeblis

July 14th, 2009 at 12:38 am

Awesome! Thank you, that totally solved everything. For the longest time, I couldn’t figure out why the PS3 couldn’t see TVersity and vice versa. I (needlessly, I see, now) opened a bunch of ports and went through a million different configurations of “Network Discovery” before coming across this gem of advice. I’ve never had to deal with binding orders before, so, it’s no wonder that that’s really the last thing I would have thought of as the main problem. Thanks, again.

del

November 14th, 2009 at 11:11 pm

hey guys i have tried everything to get my mp3 files to play on my ps3 thru tversity, i have all the folders and then in the folders it says no tracks, when i got o GUI i have all folders and files why cant i play them any help would be great thanks.