PS3 Media Server Install
Ubuntu 8.04 and higherI have been tinkering with the new PS3 Media Server as Fuppes is no longer under development.
Here are the steps I have done on my Ubuntu server to get it going.
Hopefully it will help you set yours up.
Here you go !
1) Open a Terminal or SSH into the box
2) Move to a root account with the su command or use sudo with each command.
3) Create a directory called video or codecs. I have used video for my example.
4) cd video
5) Purge any old packages
apt-get purge ffmpeg x264 libx264-dev
5) Install codecs and utils
apt-get install build-essential libavutil-dev libavformat-dev libavcodec-dev subversion libtool automake autoconf libsqlite3-dev libpcre3-dev libxml2-dev libfaac libfaac-dev libfaad libfaad-dev libmp3lame-dev libsdl1.2-dev libtheora-dev libx11-dev libxvidcore4-dev zlib1g-dev git-core checkinstall
6) Intstall x264 codecs
git clone git://git.videolan.org/x264.git
cd x264
./configure
make
sudo checkinstall --fstrans=no --install=yes --pkgname=x264 --pkgversion "1:0.svn`date +%Y%m%d`-0.0ubuntu1" --default
7) Install ffmpeg from apt repositories or from svn sources.
a) apt-get install ffmpeg
OR compile it.
b) svn checkout svn://svn.ffmpeg.org/ffmpeg/trunk ffmpeg
cd ffmpeg
./configure --enable-gpl --enable-nonfree --enable-pthreads --enable-libfaac --enable-libfaad --enable-libmp3lame --enable-libtheora --enable-libx264 --enable-libxvid --enable-x11grab
make
sudo checkinstall --fstrans=no --install=yes --pkgname=ffmpeg --pkgversion "3:0.svn`date +%Y%m%d`-12ubuntu3" --default
7) close the terminal
If for some reason you wish to remove the installation you can do so with
apt-get remove
or if you want to toast all of it.
apt-get purge
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Now lets install the PS3 Media Server.
For this you will need two things
1) A terminal window with root access.
2) Either be at the machine or if you are like me VNC into it.( heads up VNC is slower than town hall meeting especially with the java gui it uses.)
3) Open a terminal
4) cd video
5) wget http://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/files/pms-linux-1.10.5.tgz
6) tar -xf pms-linux-1.10.5.tgz
7) cd pms-linux-1.10.5
8) chmod a+x pms.jar
9) chmod a+x PMS.sh
10) ./pms.jar
11) From here you can adjust all your setting and your shares.
- hit save at the top when you are done and then close it.
12) Back at the terminal type the following.
./PMS.sh
13) Now go to your PS3 and check under video for your new server, it should automatically appear in about 20-30 seconds.
14) If everything is satisfactory go back to your ubuntu box.
15) Type ctrl-c to kill the active task (pms.sh)
16) Now to run it in the background
./PMS.sh &
[press ENTER/RETRUN]
17) The rest is just tinkering and playing with settings and restarting the PMS.
I could not get the youtube and iptv options to work, to remove them i created a backup directory and moved the WEB.conf to there and restarted the PMS. The option will dissapear from the PS3 menu.
You can also adjust the main PMS.conf and the /renderers/PS3.conf for tweaking settings manually.
This project is under active development, so check frequently to the following sites for more updated info.
http://ps3mediaserver.blogspot.com/
http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/
http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/
http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/downloads/list
