The Foolish Fellow
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WHICH IS THE BEST MACHINE FOR MEDIA STREAMING , PARTICULARLY VIDEO .
XBOX OR PS3 .
XBOX OR PS3 .
MEDIA STREAMING XBOX OR PS3
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Pondboy
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Depends whether you like Sony or M'soft.
PS3 does it really well. Very easy to use on wireless or wired netsworks. Has a quieter fan and plays blu-ray.
y2blade will tell you how good the xbox is soon.
PB
PS3 does it really well. Very easy to use on wireless or wired netsworks. Has a quieter fan and plays blu-ray.
y2blade will tell you how good the xbox is soon.
PBroddy
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+1 for the PS3 wireless out the box if need be
another for the PS3 - playable straight out of the box. Plus plays BlueRay DVDs. BBCi Player included
XBox is cheaper but you need to buy the router to go on-line plus XBox Live membership fee (£36.00 per year??) if you need to play on-line games. You can get SKY with it for £something
You are going to get positive answers from both camps
for the PS3 - playable straight out of the box. Plus plays BlueRay DVDs. BBCi Player includedXBox is cheaper but you need to buy the router to go on-line plus XBox Live membership fee (£36.00 per year??) if you need to play on-line games. You can get SKY with it for £something
You are going to get positive answers from both camps
I use an Xbox 360, and think it works really well.
I run a home NAS with a video library that run TwonkyMedia Server. The Xbox plays that excellently. It's streaming video in avi format.
I addition I have a Windows Media Server in my office, and the Xbox runs as an extender for that, and again, works perfectly. Both are running wirelessly.
The WMS runs a TV tuner in the PC and is a central streaming for recorded media from the telly.
Can't comment on PS3 as I've not run one, but I do have a Wii and that runs iPlayer really well....
I run a home NAS with a video library that run TwonkyMedia Server. The Xbox plays that excellently. It's streaming video in avi format.
I addition I have a Windows Media Server in my office, and the Xbox runs as an extender for that, and again, works perfectly. Both are running wirelessly.
The WMS runs a TV tuner in the PC and is a central streaming for recorded media from the telly.
Can't comment on PS3 as I've not run one, but I do have a Wii and that runs iPlayer really well....
the director
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The Foolish Fellow
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ps3
I already use the ps3 to stream from my nas . My video is in lots of different formats and the ps3 does not play them all . ( It wont play mkv flies and quite a few others ) I would like a media player that will play most if not all of the different formats . I was wondering was the xbox any better . I am wired with cat 7 and dont need wireless
I already use the ps3 to stream from my nas . My video is in lots of different formats and the ps3 does not play them all . ( It wont play mkv flies and quite a few others ) I would like a media player that will play most if not all of the different formats . I was wondering was the xbox any better . I am wired with cat 7 and dont need wireless
roddy
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I had the same issue with my ps3 I found it was down to the software I used to do the media streaming, I found one called PS3 media server that seems to handle files better due to the fact it translates them on the hoof to a format the PS3 handles easier
, Also make sure you have the latest update for the PS3 they did improve the video file handling a while back.
don't know if this helps with your NAS ?
I all honesty I would imagine the Xbox to have similar issues
Not really - it can't play mkv directly either.
I had the same issue with my ps3 I found it was down to the software I used to do the media streaming, I found one called PS3 media server that seems to handle files better due to the fact it translates them on the hoof to a format the PS3 handles easier
I all honesty I would imagine the Xbox to have similar issues
Xbox does have similar issues - I use the same software as above for streaming codecs the Xbox can't handle.
mcbikerider
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PS3 is no good as a media center due to the limited support for media formats. After years I have finally given up using the PS3 as a media center. It's very good for DVDs, BluRay and gaming but that's about it.
Example: Yesterday I made a bike video on my wife's new macbook pro. I exported the video to avi but this was not recognized by the PS3 as it uses another avi codec. I therefore had to spend money buying a conversion program, convert the movie to mp4 (taking ages) to get it to work. It's just to much work.
I know I can use various programs for transcoding on the fly, but I don't really se the point of having one computer and the PS3 working simultaneously in order to be able to watch a movie?
Instead, I'll buy myself one of those neat little desktop computers built on the Intel Atom architecture supporint video in HD. This will be a quiet, small and highly configurable media server.
