Comments on: DLNA is not a total loser http://www.mustbeart.com/wp/2009/12/13/dlna-is-not-a-total-loser/ If there's no other explanation, it must be art. Wed, 17 Aug 2011 16:01:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Phil http://www.mustbeart.com/wp/2009/12/13/dlna-is-not-a-total-loser/comment-page-1/#comment-76432 Phil Wed, 16 Dec 2009 21:02:36 +0000 http://www.mustbeart.com/wp/?p=160#comment-76432 Hi Paul, I didn’t know you had a PS3. We have one, and I’ve also wanted a way to stream videos to it from a (Linux) file server. It didn’t support any of the network protocols I already had (NFS, AFP, CIFS, DAAP, Slimserver) so I eventually found something called Mediatomb. I never did get it to work right; at most I could see my directory structure, but the actual files were missing.

Eventually I gave up. When I want to look at a video file on the PS3, I use sneakernet on a flash stick. Slow and ugly, but it works.

There has to be a better way. And I’m beginning to rethink the whole file server concept. Hard drives are getting so huge that you can easily afford to duplicate your whole library on each device that might want it — if you can make that modification. I wonder, will a PS3 see an external hard drive plugged into a USB port? It always sees flash sticks, but I’ve had trouble on the few times I’ve connected portable hard drives.

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