Now that I ’ve added Sony’sPlayStation 3game cabinet to my home entertainment arsenal , I ’m looking to make it babble out with my Macintosh . So far , the software I ’ve found is n’t really rocking my domain , and I ’m wondering if you , devout lector , have any suggestions .
Like its rival , Microsoft ’s Xbox 360 , the PS3 features a build - in ability to watch flick and picture and listen to medicine ; thePlayStation internet(PSN ) is a burgeoning method acting of buying and downloading some of that content . The PS3 ’s “ Xcross Media Bar ” ( XMB)—its primary user interface outdoors of game and movies — lets you link up to a media server to view photo , telecasting and hear to euphony in much the same means as the Xbox 360 .
A company called Nullriver Software used this capableness to develop Connect360 , a Mac software system covering which allow the Mac talk of the town with the Xbox 360 ( I recently reviewed it here ) . This has been priceless to me to watch digital video and listen to music store on my Mac on the Xbox 360 using my heavy - screen projector and home stereo instead .
unluckily , due to conflict between how the Xbox 360 work and how the PS3 works , Connect360 does n’t forge with the PS3 . I hear the fine folks at Nullriver Software are developing ConnectPS3 to fill this gap , but I ’m impatient .
What I ’ve learned is that the PS3 supportsUniversal Plug and Play(UPnP ) , a criterion for connectivity between consumer electronics devices . And there are indeed at least a handful of UPnP waiter applications for the Mac out there . ( There are Mac UPnP clients , but that is n’t what I want — what I involve is to dish out the files on my Mac to the UPnP client built into the PS3 . )
Elgato ’s EyeConnectworks via UPnP. Philips has software . TwonkyMediamakes another . There’sMediaTomb , an open - reference system that is really wonky . All of these do n’t seem to be able-bodied to get past a problem serve up the media file cabinet on my Mac , which the Xbox 360 can run just fine . ( The PS3 sees the media file , but calls them “ unsupported data . ” )
There ’s another solution too , which my champion Dan clue me into : you’re able to also turn on Personal Web communion from the share-out druthers pane in your Mac ’s System Preferences , and share what files you want to remove that way .
I can also import files by copying them onto one of the various flash medium formats the PS3 supports . ( It features a make in ostentation card referee . ) But that ’s a dull and ill-chosen mental process that I want to avoid .
None of these systems is really idealistic , so I ’m rum to hear from you : Are you serving up medium file on your Mac using UPnP software ? If so , what are you using ? Are you happy with it ? Am I just doing something really silly that ’s preclude me from using the media on my Mac ?
