PS3 Media Server

Philips TV's are supported by PMS

The new PMS (PS3 Media Server) now also supports Philips networked TV's.
For this you have to use the PMS version 1.11.366, which contains a Philips TV configuration file.

(It took a while in searching and testing. With the great help of Shagrath and Tomeko the on-TV browsing was fixed and finally the streaming was fixed.)

There are two sorts of Philips networked TV's: the models like e.g. the Aurea and the NetTV models.
Both have the same basic networking capabilities and are quite similar to PMS.
The NetTV's have more native play (i.e. no transcoding needed) capabilities than the Aurea.

How to start?
- Connect the TV to your network. A wireless network works, but for streaming a cabled network is better.
- Install PMS PMS version 1.11.366. You can get it here: http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3217
- Switch on the TV and start PMS on the PC. After little time you see at the main PMS screen (Status Tab) an Aurea TV picture
called "Philips Aurea TV NetTV".
- If the TV is not found then check in the Traces Tab which network has been used.
You can force the correct network in the General Configuration Tab.
At "Force network on interface"you can select your favorite network here.
(This is needed e.g. when you did install a virtual machine like Virtual Box or VMWare on your PC.
Such virtual machine adds a new network definition that is often chosen by PMS.
Also this can be used for selecting the best network connection for PMS e.g. forcing to use the cabled and not the wireless network.)
- In the same General Configuration Tab you can select your favorite language.
- Select your video (and audio and photo) folders in the Navigation Tab.
- In Transcoding Settings Tab set number of audio channels to "2 channels Stereo". You can also disable Tsmuxer
- DO NOT FORGET to push on the Save button to keep your changes!

At the TV side
- Now select on your TV remote control "Source" and select "PC-network" from the list.
You should see the browser screen on TV and you can select a media server e.g. "PS3 Media Server"
- Now browse to your favorite media folder with video, audio or photo content.
Just learn by playing around!
- There is a special virtual #-TRANSCODE-# folder. Just browse in it and find for all video different transcoding options.
The Philips TV can only play so called Program Streams.
Just select a MEncoder type, but "MEncoder {Audio:AC3/Undetermined}" will always play.
- Click on your favorite video and its should start play on your TV.
- Audio and photo's are similar, but much simpler.

Native capabilities of Philips networked TV's
The current generation Philips networked TV's can only play Program Streams (no Transport Streams).
(Program Streams are simpler and Transport Streams have more error correcting. So the latter is used in e.g. broadcasting. But for local usage a Program Stream works fine.)
Programe Streams are output by some transcoders and "MEncoder {Audio:AC3/Undetermined}" will always play.

Philips Aurea native formats:
Video: MPEG-1, MPEG-2
Audio: LPCM, MP3
Photo: JPEG

Philips NetTV native formats:
Video: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, MPEG-4, AVI, H.264/MPEG-4, WMV9/VC1
Audio: LPCM, MP3, WMA
Photo: JPEG

Configuration file Philips.conf
See the philips.conf file in the renderer folder. Here you can experiment with configuration settings.
Please note that the newer Philips TV use a new DLNA stack with a different user-agent detection string!!
Older Philips TV:
# Renderer name string: Allegro-Software-WebClient/4.61 DLNADOC/1.00
UserAgentSearch= Allegro-Software-WebClient

Newest Philips TV:
# Renderer name string: Windows2000/0.0 UPnP/1.0 PhilipsIntelSDK/1.4 DLNADOC/1.50
UserAgentSearch= PhilipsIntelSDK

The standard Philips.conf file contains the older Allegro string.
You can find the proper string for your TV in the debug.log file (in the program folder): just search for the line with "USER-AGENT".

The following settings in the philips.conf are required for the Philips TV to work properly with PMS:

The current generation Philips networked TV's can only play Program Streams (no Transport Streams).
Mencoder and avisynth/mencoder will output MpegPS when TranscodeVideo=MPEGAC3.
Tsmuxer will always output MpegTS and cannot be used. http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2099&start=260#p18487
TranscodeVideo=MPEGAC3

The Philips TV needs to receive a transcoded video with minimal delay (this TV has a very small timeout delay).
If not set, the TV will abort the play with "Not available" due to a "detected" time-out.
TranscodeFastStart=true

The size of the transcoded file is required to be -1 for the PS3, but this will crash the browsing for other TV rendererers.
For the Philips TV it need to be a positive integer, and we had better make it large:
TranscodedVideoFileSize=100000000000

Formats that cannot be played native like MKV, need to be transcoded, e.g. MKV, Flac, PNG
For the Aurea you specify formats that are forcefully transcoded:
TranscodeExtensions=avi,wmv,mkv,wmv,ts,m2ts,tp,iso,mp4,mov,hdmov,hdm,flac,fla,dts,ogg,asf,asx,m2v,av,m2p,mts,gif,tif,tiff,png,bmp
Many are not needed for Philips NetTV that can handle many formats natively

Questions, discussions, remarks? Use this forum.

question:
Is there a list of supported media renderers (streaming clients) for PS3 Media Server?

answer:
At the moment the PS3, XBOX360, and Philips (networked) TVs are well supported. There is experimental support for Sony Bravia and Samsung Wiselink tvs, XBMC (e.g. on XBOX), PopcornHour, FreeboxHD, and Realtek chip based media renderers. Other media renderers may work. You have to create a conf-file in renderers subdirectory of PMS installation directory.

First of all have a look at the changelog of current beta: http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/source/browse/trunk/ps3mediaserver/CHANGELOG

Also have a look at the already existing renderer config files in current beta: http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/source/browse/#svn/trunk/ps3mediaserver/renderers

Finally read this thread about new media renders: http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=2099

supported media renderers / ready to use conf-files:

PS3: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ps3

XBOX360: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbox360

Sony Bravia tv: http://www.sony.co.uk/hub/bravia/block/6/subblock/1

Samsung Wiselink: http://www.samsung.com/uk/consumer/learningresources/media2.0/dlna_introduction.html

Freebox HD: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Freebox

PopcornHour: http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/index.php?pluginoption=whatisit

XBMC: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xbmc - for XBMC on XBOX 1 use T3CH XBMC 2009-06-01 9.04.1 stable build from http://t3ch.yi.se for example

Philips Aurea TV and Net TV: http://www.consumer.philips.com/c/televisions/33092/cat/gb/

Realtek media players (Asus O!Play, Xtreamer, AC Ryan PlayOn!HD, Brite-view CinemaTube)

If you need assistance getting a new renderer working you should do the following:

1. Download and install Intel upnp tools: http://softwarecommunity.intel.com/isn/ ... ogy_v2.zip
2. Run Device Spy
3. Expand: Device name > ...ConnectionManager...
4. Doubleclick GetProtocolInfo and click Invoke
5. Save the Sink response and follow the instructions on how to create a custom renderer.conf
6. Post your results to Alternative Media Renderers forum

You may also need to provide the Get Device XML (right click on device)

Best regards, Otmanix