PS3 Streaming error – Resolved.

OK right some of you may have read my previous post “Annoying PS3 Streaming error!“  I have recently overcome this issue and worked my way around it.

Previous issue

This is the error I was recieving when streaming video files from my iMac using eyeConnect, the film would play fine but would also show the error message shown to the left every couple of seconds. After a while I wouldn’t notice it and wouldn’t even bother me, a couple of other issues I came across with eyeConnect was the fact that it couldn’t stream MP3 files which was also annoying.

eyeConnect didn’t like it when another device was connected to the wireless router, such as when I was surfing the internet while streaming a movie, it would often lock up and freeze every couple of minutes, this was really annoying.

Resolution

I decided that I was going to remove eyeConnect from my iMac and find a better solution, after browsing the net for PS3 Media Servers I came across PS3MEDIASERVER origonal name I know but hey it’s a beauty! It is a Java application and is avaliable for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X. Very simple to install, very quick at detecting your PS3 when connected to the network and does exactly what it says on the tin. This in my opinion is 100times better than eyeConnect and best of all its FREE!

Installed on the Mac and set it to launch at Statup and run minimized so I will always be ready to stream my media from my PS3, simply choose the folders you want to share and your PS3 will automatically show them when powered on.

I am very happy with this find of streaming server, especially a Free one that runs on Mac OSX. The steaming is perfect, it took a little time to load a movie over WiFi for the first time but my PS3 is some distance away from my router. I even did the test as previous with having another WiFi device connected at the same time as streaming and this didn’t effect the movie in anyway, neither did it effect the movie when I closed my living room door & have WiFi deviced connected! its nice to know I finally have the perfect media streaming server installed, also does MP3′s! Could it get any better?

Give it a try and let me know if it works as good for you has it has done for me!