Comments on: Turn Fedora into a PS3 Media Server [Tutorial]

By: sixfootmidget

sixfootmidget — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 23:32:36 +0000

i too share bob and kevin’s problem. ive tried mediatomb with the same end result (no files found) i thought it might be a permission issue too but changing the permissions did nothing. this whole process has been completely infuriating.

By: chandra sekhar

chandra sekhar — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 02:35:26 +0000

am unable to see the file that i have shared,my ps3 shows no titles found

By: SendDerek

SendDerek — Sun, 01 Nov 2009 07:50:21 +0000

I’m not sure about the other problems you’re having, but you’re probably right about the port forwarding… it might not be required.

By: Curtiss

Curtiss — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 18:29:48 +0000

I’m having a few problems, i got it to work, but i had to disable the firewall in Fedora, and i’m not really trying to do that, just for testing… Also, once i got connected I couldn’t see any files in the shared folder similar to what a few others were saying… Any ideas would be great. Also why is port forwarding required??? I have my PS3 open on my router, so i can browse the internet and such… Thanks

By: SendDerek

SendDerek — Sun, 18 Oct 2009 01:33:33 +0000

There are similarities between the two systems, but I can’t verify that it will work for sure. The best advice I can give is to try it out for yourself!

By: Ray

Ray — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 12:24:44 +0000

Thanks for this great tutorial. Can I assume the same steps would work for Ubuntu?

By: Robin

Robin — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 22:10:25 +0000

Hello,
I followed your instructions for ushare and it worked except for opening firewall ports on the Linux box. I needed to open 1900 (UDP) and 2869 (TCP) to get ushare to work. I have not tested to see if both parts are needed but this is what I found early this morning.

Once doing this, I was up and running except for the PS3′s limitations. Most of my music is in FLAC. This is a problem as mp3′s are to lossy for my preference.

I tried Daniel’s suggestion of mediatomb and was up an running in 10 minutes on Fedora 11 (64bit). The web browser is a nice way to configure available media.

Also for both services, you can use the /administration/services to configure the daemon process.

And to keep some sense of security on your system, if your media files are controlled by groups, then you can add ushare (mediatomb) to the group list for those groups. I provides some control over the subdirectories. I have mine setup with the MPAA suggestions of G-PG, PG-13, R and X. Needless to say, I don’t share the R or X over the UPNP at this time.

Thank you for the tutorial, it was very educational.

By: Kevin McDuck

Kevin McDuck — Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:59:27 +0000

I’m having the same problem as Bob. I see the folders, but my PS3 says there is nothing in them. I’ve set the permissions, and there are plenty of files in those folders, but the PS3 doesn’t see anything in them.

Any assistance would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

McDuck

By: SendDerek

SendDerek — Sun, 31 May 2009 16:00:27 +0000

I would suggest opening the permissions all the way initially just to test it out:
chmod 777 -R /folder (or something like that)

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 31 May 2009 05:18:21 +0000

ONE HOURE!?

It took me less than 10 minutes to go through the instruction and install everything. That is a complete one.

However, it’s been more than 6 hours that I have a small problem and I can’t fix it.

I see all the shared folders that I add into the config file in my PS3, but they are all EMPTY!!

I believe it is a simple permission issue that I can’t figure it out.

Please help!
thank you