(how to browse and play videos and mp3s with your ps3 from your linux box)

I wanted to share my videos and MP3’s from my linux box (in my case gentoo) with my PS3 with out having to transfer them so here are the steps to make it happen…

first you need to get net-libs/libupnp

emerge net-libs/libupnp
or
yum install libupnp (from the kbs-CentOS-Extra repository for CentOS)

*note it has to be equal or higher than version 1.4.2
if you are using another distro you can get it from http://pupnp.sourceforge.net/

then download this great application that was developed for the GeeXboX called uShare

wget http://ushare.geexbox.org/releases/ushare-0.9.10.tar.bz2
then decompress the bz2 file
tar xvjf ushare-0.9.10.tar.bz2
then go into the folder
cd ushare-0.9.10
now lets configure and compile
./configure --prefix=/usr
then
make
make install
now you can run it
ushare -c /home/DIRECTORY TO SHARE1 -c /DIRECTORY TO SHARE2 &
after doing this go to: http://localhost:49152/web/ushare.html
if you see the ushare page everything went ok and now you should be able to see your linux box from the ps3

*UPDATE: Only VIDEO via uShare works, MP3 playback don’t work yet under uShare yet…

From the command line:
emerge lame
emerge twolame

autoreconf -i
./configure --prefix=/usr
make
make install
then just run it:
fuppes
*make sure you configure it via the webinterface and rebuild the database

I was able to play MP3’s, Photos and Movies with Fuppes

Saw this on the Compiz site, it’s a plugin called Lowfat. Really worth checking out. Developed by somebody called “MacSlow” its in the early alpha stage but there is a git repo availible, download
video of demo

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