Connect360 was not bad for xbox, they also do a PS version, but for straight media serving, Plex no question. Mercenaries 3: No Limits would have been the next game in the series following the releases of the first two games: Mercenaries: Playground of Destruction (2005) and its sequel Mercenaries 2: World in Flames (2008). If you need this its a mixed bag regarding codec support, and I found the issues with other servers made the solution less viable.
From my perspective, I needed something to access my library, rather than rely on hardware specific transcoding. The only thing I can't comment on is transcoding I assume their clients manage this. Don't want to name names but I've pretty much tried them all.
Plex takes a while to run through a big, say 3tb collection but it genuinely has been the most painless and reliable of all I've tried and the searchable options are far more varied and sensible than those for others. Download PS3 Media Server - PS3 Media Server is a DLNA-compliant UPnP Media Server. This may sound set up but save yourself the pain and effort and try Plex first.
I have an iMac and MacBook Pro both running Mountain Lion, and the iMac now serves my xbox, wdtv live and archos 7 faultlessly. Plex server is totally free but you can pay for mobile clients. So forget about flash drives for transferring the data, and. Instead, you can simply stream them with amazing quality.
This means that you can access videos, music or photos stored on your PC from your console without having to download them first. Launch the Media Player app on your PS4, and select your DLNA server. But then last week I found a poster who recommended Plex media server and its so good I'm trying to find the post and poster to thank him. PS3 Media Server is a free application that can function as a media server for PS3s or XBOX360s. I've had this same frustrating hunt for ages, tried and found all of them to have serious issues either with usability or actual functionality. That said, the mac mini stays on and has been running mediatomb for the last month without touching it, job done. I typically have the movies in the mkv container, but unfortunately the xbox does not support 5.1 sound in mkv. But, it's not a simple download, run and you are working. Im running PS3 Media Server to stream movies to my Xbox 360. Supports on-the-fly transcoding of video and music. The paths must not be crossed, except if you use a bridge. In each puzzle a path appears when you connect the stars of the same color. To play, link all the stars of the same color with your finger.
You can do all this remotely via ssh, and then the web interface. Plex, a cross-platform and closed source software media player and entertainment hub for digital media, available for macOS, Microsoft Windows, Linux, as well as mobile clients for iOS (including Apple TV (2nd generation) onwards), Android, Windows Phone, and many devices such as Xbox. Catch is one of the best Puzzle Game You have to catch all colored stars spread across many levels. You have to start the mediatomb demon from a terminal screen.
So, you can have say a folder with holiday snaps in it updated only manually, and another folder which is updated a lot re-scanned every 3 minutes, every hour, every day or whenever.ĭownside is you'll need a working fink, and that needs the Apple xcode stuff installed - from a clean install of the OS on the mac mini it took about a day to download and install all the bits including the OS X updates (my OS X dvd was 10.5.0). It also allows you to read the directory/folder where the media is either as a one off or automated rescan. Also it's the only media server on the Mac I've found that allows you to add media from internal/external and Airport/network drives. Download fink and install, and then run fink to download and install mediatomb. Go to the apple website, Apple Developer Connection and register. Other than that it's strightforward and not as bad as it sounds.
Upside, is it's all free (the apple developer kit is free after you register for it - if you're on an older OS X, it may be on the OS install DVD), fink is free, as is mediatomb. It streams to many devices including PS3, Xbox One and 360. Over a wired network and this works fine. Popular Alternatives to Universal Media Server for Windows, Mac, Web, iPhone, Linux and more. This is running this on an old G4 mac mini (OS X 10.5.x) with 4 external hard disks connected (USB and Firewire mix), holding video, iTunes music, pictures - which sits on a shelf hidden with no screen/mouse/keyboard. But, the initial set-up is a bit long winded if your not a bit techie. I've installed MediaTomb, and this works fine (and is free ).