I've got both installed on a pretty powerful Vista 64-bit Quad processor machine with 6GB of ram and powerline Ethernet to my PS3 that I tested is getting about 25mbit/s bandwidth (my 54g signal is very weak at my PS3 - about 15mbit/sec).
Tversity seems to be the more "polished" product but there's a HUGE following of PSM users that swear it is "the best." I'm finding both have their drawbacks. Wondering what other people think.
On Tversity, you can't play MKV files, but there does appear to be some workaround that I haven't tried yet. It just doesn't appear to be able to play them "out of the box" so to speak. That seems to be the 'major' hole in Tversity. I know there is probably a few other filetypes PSM supports but Tversity doesn't but as far as ripping and playing DVDs and Blu-Rays I doubt they are significant? Correct me if I'm wrong.
The main problem I've encountered with PSM is that while it plays VOB files beautifully, if you want to simplify the menu so all you have to do is select a folder that has a VIDEO_TS subfolder instead of having to select an individual VOB I get stuttering as it transcodes the VIDE0_TS subfolder files. If I take the VOBs out of the subfolder and play them separately, no problem.
If I select a VIDEO_TS folder in Tversity it streams them flawlessly. Haven't gotten around to ripping some of my Blu-Rays yet. But if this article written about 6 months ago still holds true, it looks like Tversity will be my go-to media server.
If there is a major advantage or disadvantage to either of these other than what is in this article or if the article is now in error, please let me know!
yeah i agree with that, though also PSM can play mkv files, it will only play the default audio and subtitles of the file. SO if it's an anime with dual audio and subs, and it's default is set to play as english audio and no subs, you cannot change it to japanese audio with subs.
This I found annoying as I prefer subs to dubs, and half my dual audio files have english dub as default.
Ive stopped using either of these, gone back to watching them on PC, dont see the point in streaming to PS3, just a waste of electricity. Thats why the PS3 needs to be hacked, so someone will create some homebrew to play all these video codecs.
They both have their advantages and draw backs imo. I tend to use TVersity more often, but as of late I have had no end of issues with it. So I went back to PSMS and haven't had any real issue other than the occasional buffer stop over WiFi on one of my PS3's. Though honestly I will probably end up using TVersity when I build my next PC (this P4 is REALLY struggling lately) because it is so much more easy on the eyes and works quite fast/well overall for my needs.
Originally posted by Oner: They both have their advantages and draw backs imo. I tend to use TVersity more often, but as of late I have had no end of issues with it. So I went back to PSMS and haven't had any real issue other than the occasional buffer stop over WiFi on one of my PS3's. Though honestly I will probably end up using TVersity when I build my next PC (this P4 is REALLY struggling lately) because it is so much more easy on the eyes and works quite fast/well overall for my needs.
Another member of this forum pointed something out to me over PSN. Tversity also works with the psp, and PSMS doesn't. As far as a P4 goes, I understand how that goes. 2.8 ghz P4. Plan on building a new one in 2 weeks :)
Well I finally finished my first Blu-Ray backup and the jury is still out. I ripped to an MKV because in RipBot, when I demuxed the raw PCM track to FLAC, it only allowed me to mux the FLAC audio with an MKV and not AVCHD file. I couldn't play the MKV on Tversity. The steps to get that to work require Haali Media Splitter to be removed and that happens to be required for RipBot to work. Go figure.
So then I used eac3to to convert the FLAC to AC3 and then TSMuxer to mux the AC3 with the video from the MKV to create an m2ts. Go figure, TSMuxer can't load FLAC audio. No one likes FLAC! It results in a 3GB file that is 1080Presolution (the black bars cropped it is 1920x802). Amazing to get that kind of file size with high-def.
Here's the kicker, the PS3 scene browser (the one that you can see frames for every 1, 2, or 5 minutes - hit square button) doesn't work when playing m2ts with Tversity or PS3MediaServer. Trying to use scene browser on PS3MediaServer on MKV results in corrupted data message. I'm exhausted trying to get all this stuff to work good.
Originally posted by ooZEROoo: Another member of this forum pointed something out to me over PSN. Tversity also works with the psp, and PSMS doesn't. As far as a P4 goes, I understand how that goes. 2.8 ghz P4. Plan on building a new one in 2 weeks :)
I haven't had a chance to try that out on my PSP with PSMS but I have done so in the past with TVersity...looks like another + for TVersity.
