Name: PS3 Media Server
Rating: 3.7674 (40 reviews)

PS3 Media Server overview

PS3 Media Server runs on your Mac as an DLNA compliant Upnp media server. You just share a folder (or more), and this folder you can browse on your PS3 - when you see a media file (e.g. MKV), just press play - and the media server will process real-time video transcoding via MEncoder to the PS3. This means the PS3 will play unsupported files. Even with external .srt / .sub subtitles.

Current features:

Ready to launch and play. No codec packs to install. No folder configuration and pre-parsing or this kind of annoying thing. All your folders are directly browsed by the PS3, there's an automatic refresh also.
Real-time video transcoding via MEncoder, tsMuxer or Avisynth
DVD ISOs images / VIDEO_TS Folder transcoder
OGG/FLAC/MPC/APE audio transcoding
Thumbnail generation for Videos
You can choose with a virtual folder system your audio/subtitle language on the PS3!
All formats PS3 natively supports: MP3/WMA, JPG/PNG/GIF/TIFF, and all kind of videos (AVI, MP4, TS, M2TS, MPEG) the ps3 is willing to play
Display camera RAWs thumbnails (Canon / Nikon, etc.)
ZIP/RAR files as browsable folders for pictures/audio files
Support for pictures based feeds, such as Flickr and Picasaweb
Internet TV / Web Radio support with VLC, MEncoder or MPlayer
Podcasts audio/ Video feeds support

What’s new in version 1.90.1

Updated on Aug 18 2013

Version 1.90.1:

Engines

FFmpeg Video, FFMpeg Web Video and FFmpeg Web Audio:

Fix issue that prevented plugins extending FFmpegWebAudio and FFmpegWebVideo safely
Updated FFmpeg for Windows

MEncoder Video: Fix for spaces in font names breaking playback

Miscellaneous

Fixed regression with tsMuxeR and H.264 support
Restored Java support for file names with special characters on OS X

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Macs-Pain

Mar 3 2020

1.90.1

5.0

Version: 1.90.1

Still better than "Universal Media Server", still working like a charme. :)

Quiiick

Feb 26 2014

4.0

I have several media servers, including PMS, on my Mac. Since upgrading to MacOS X 10.9.2 earlier today, none of them finds my PS3 renderer anymore! Has anyone else experienced similar problems?

Gravitonmatrix

Dec 1 2013

Easy to install, easy to use. Works perfectly getting my MKV files on my Mac running Mavericks to my PS3 and my WD TV LIVE streaming player. I was using TVMOBiLi until I ran into their data streaming limit. PS3 Media Server is noticeably faster. Instant streaming instead of waiting up to 30 seconds for video to start using TVMOBiLi. Streaming via TVMOBiLi also would pause video quite often while PS3 Media Server simply allow the videos to stream uninterrupted. This is the solution that I have been looking for!

Eddiemp

Nov 28 2013

1.0

After 3 months still no fix on the installer problem ...

Arnauld

Sep 24 2013

Intego's "Virus Barrier Express" (Definitions 09/17/2013) reports me of an infection inside the downloaded -> SelfModifier.class Java/CVE-2012-1723.gen As a Mac-user I have not much knowledge in viruses and I'm not able to assess the "nastiness(?)" of this "thing". Any ideas? TNX!

Aug 23 2013

This new installer gives me a "Permission Denied" while it is NOT asking for an ADMINUSER/PASS ... I can not install/upgrade the latest version :-(((

Aug 19 2013

Can someone please explain to me why the new version (1.90.1) needs an installer now. I prefer having "drop 'n' drag" installs of software on my desktop computer.

apelike22

May 4 2012

1.52.1

Version: 1.52.1

Extremely easy to set up and use. I have a Macbook Pro with an external USB drive with my movie collection on it. I have a wifi connection and my PS3 is connected to an Airport Base Station via an ethernet cable. PS3 Media Server automatically found my PS3 (as well as my Panasonic Viera TV) and on my PS3 I was able to navigate to my drive and pull up my movies. It seamlessly played back a copy of Dolphin Tale encoded by Handbrake from the Blu Ray disc. Minimal and rare stuttering of playback, no worse than what you'd get from Netflix or Amazon, and the overall quality looked better than those. Can't believe this is free. Don't stress about the user interface unless you have to. I don't have anything special or unique about my setup and it worked fine without me doing anything. I highly, highly recommend this app.

Scottyo

Mar 26 2012

1.52.0

Version: 1.52.0

The new version started pausing playback and loading buffers every 10-15 seconds on my 802.11n connection (iMac i7, pretty new Samsung 46"/Rosewill wireless USB dongle), for 640x480 movies. In the Transcode Settings tab, inputting keyint=5:vqscale=1:vqmin=3 got it streaming smoothly; IOW, I increased vqmin from 2 to 3. I also lowered the AC3 bit rate to 384 kbps, though that may not have been necessary. These were shot on our ca 2005 point-and-shoot, so didn't really benefit from high-quality settings. But this change probably wouldn't get 720p or 1080i/p streaming working smoothly, though increasing the vqscale and vqmin parameters *might* do so. For the HD formats you might need a 100 mbps wired ethernet connection.

incrzr

Feb 24 2012

1.50.1

Version: 1.50.1

Yeah, it works great with my WD TV Live and Lion! Thanks.

Ry-ma

Jan 30 2012

For me the best Media server. The only one, which operates error free so far.

folivares

Oct 29 2011

1.50.0

2.0

Version: 1.50.0

Had to upgrade to Isedora; unstable (at time's would stream to my Xbox 360, at times would not). Video quality was terrible (or I just couldn't figure out how to tweak it).

anonymous-worm-6592

Oct 24 2011

The developers of this app need to take a good hard look at what StreamToMe/ServeToMe has accomplished, *also* using open-source components but having significantly improved playback compatibility, interface quality, and overall polish and presentation If ServeToMe could act as a DLNA server there would be no reason to use PS3MS ever again.

bigbearhunter

Oct 8 2011

1.40.0

Version: 1.40.0

AMAZING! First off, this is not the most intuitive program at all. It's got buttons and weird names for items and protocols, so, you have no idea what it's talking about. The next version needs to have an interface more like HANDBRAKE, where you just punch a few presets in and it works. It couldn't find my PS3 at first. Then after some research I found out that you have to make some changes to get it to sync. You might have to go to general settings and under Force switch it to 1o0 and under that type in your COMPUTERS IP Address. That did it for me and at worked just fine. So despite it's complicated nature I give this 5 stars because it's free and it does exactly what I needed it to. It's not a cure all by any means and you shouldn't expect it to be, but it showed some videos I had on the computer just fine and others not so much, but avi's and mpegs play perfect. And again. It's FREE.

truthhurts

Oct 4 2011

0.5

Horrible little program. I kind of suspected this based on the screen shot of the interface - that's actually one of the *better* looking screens. This is a poorly done, confusing, and badly laid out port of a piece of Linux software. The interface on the PS3 isn't much better. Special folders for "# VIDEO SETTINGS #" and "# TRANSCODE #" - you know, instead of actually doing the right thing and just sending the appropriate stream. And all of that might be forgivable if it worked - but it doesn't. It transferred one YouTube video successfully, and every MKV I threw at it failed. Among other things, it doesn't support MKV header compression, which anything worth its salt supported over a year ago. The forums are worthless. Report a bug or criticize anything and you're told not to do it that way, or remux all of your files; basically, the program can do no wrong, and if it fails (and badly), well, that's your fault - never the program. Free, and yet you still don't get what you paid for, as there's no reimbursement for time wasted on this thing.

P=NP

Jun 25 2011

1.25.1

4.5

Version: 1.25.1

I've been using PS3 Media Server since 2009 and have yet to find another media server application that is better. I've tried just about every media server available, however, none of them can beat this thing. What's most surprising is that most of the others cost money, seem to have less capabilities, or just aren't as versatile. To anyone needing a solid media server look no further — it's awesome, and best of all FREE.

anonymous-gopher-3791

Jun 24 2011

1.20.409

Version: 1.20.409

Version 1.25.1 – http://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/files/pms-macosx-1.25.1.dmg

brianmac350

Jun 7 2011

Uncaught exception in main method: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Java heap space I have this issue and cannot connect has anyone ever had this before?

Maboroshi

May 27 2011

This is pretty nice work. Especially considering its free. For those having trouble getting it to see their PS3 on the network, one thing you may need to do is go under "General Configuration" and in the "Force IP of the server" field, put in the network IP of your mac running the software. For example 192.168.1.2 After that click save and then restart the server. You may also have to choose one of the network interfaces from the "Force networking on interface" dropdown. I've never had problems connecting as long as I have those 2 options set.

Leesa

Feb 22 2011

The newest version does NOT transcode on a PPC Mac. It does, however, connect to my G5 to play any file that my PS3 will normally play... but no transcoding. Assuming there was an older version that worked on a PPC, I was hoping to find it on their site... no luck.