PS3, Wii and OpenSuse11/KDE3.5

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Apologies for the double post (Suse, PS3 and Wii - openSUSE Forums)

But I wonder if anyone has experience in using Suse 11 kde3.5 acting as a media server for a PS3 or Wii?

The original message is:-

I wonder if someone could please help!
I’m wanting to set up a “media centre server” for someone so they can watch movies etc on their PS3 or Wii.

As I do not own either (awwwww) I have no idea where to begin!
A friend said that it’s not a straight forward Samba share but something else (which I didn’t catch). Now he has gone off on holiday (how dare he?!) I can’t just re-ask him!

I was considering using a suse 11 install for the server (running in init 3) or perhaps freenas or a.n.other distro. Having become accustom to suse I would like to stay with it if possible.

I was also thinking of providing them with a ready built NAS like the buffalo Linkstation I have but again, having no experience with PS3 or Wii LAN setup etc, I can’t be sure it would work.

I was suggested to try MediaTomb for the PS3 but this still leaves the Wii question un-answered.

Thanks for any help/advice!
Badger

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um, anyone?? :(:’(

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sorry for the bump but i’m real stuck with this; can anyone offer any guidance at all ??

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Sorry I didn’t catch this before - saw your post the other day.

You’re looking for a package called “mediatomb” from sourceforge.net. Tech is related to UPNP, not Samba/CIFs. You can also use VLC to test client, as is supports the same protocol.

Read the mediatomb documentation - some newer video formats were being tagged with the wrong mime type - so I had to go to “database” in mediatomb and change them to mpeg4 for my PS3 to play back the videos properly - otherwise you’ll see “unsupported data format” or something similar on your ps3.