Building PS3 Media Server from SVN

Submitted by greg; April 21, 2011

This guide assumes you have Ant, Subversion (svn), Java, and X11 installed. I'm building PS3 Media Server (PMS) on OpenSUSE Linux, which is what my media server runs. You can also follow this guide to build PMS on Mac OS X. So SSH in or open a terminal and lets get started:

svn co http://ps3mediaserver.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/ps3mediaserver
 cd ps3mediaserver
 ant
 cd dist

Inside the "dist" directory you'll find a tarball -- inside the tarball is PMS compiled, ready to go.

tar -zxvf pms-generic-linux-unix-1.21.2.tgz
 cd pms-linux-1.21.2
 ./PMS.sh

Now I don't run the GUI; I leave PMS running in the background. Here is a copy of my startup script:

#!/bin/sh
 PMS_HOME=/opt/pms
 PMS_JARS="$PMS_HOME/update.jar:$PMS_HOME/pms.jar:$PMS_HOME/plugins/:$PMS_HOME/plugins/*"
 cd $PMS_HOME
 nohup /usr/bin/java \
   -Xms1000M -Xmx1280M -Xss32M \
   -Djava.encoding=UTF-8 \
   -Djava.net.preferIPv4Stack=true \
   -classpath "$PMS_JARS" \
   net.pms.PMS console > pms.log &

Easy, peasy -- now you can enjoy PMS on the absolute bleeding edge. Also, if you're experiencing audio/video sync. problems when watching DVD ISOs, you can try these settings out; they worked for me: Open the PMS GUI and go to [Transcoding Settings] -> [MEncoder] -> [Expert Settings : Codec-specific paramaters] and uncheck "Use application default codec parameters" and copy/paste these into "Custom parameters" at the bottom:

vcodec == h264 && width >= 1280 :: -mt -lavdopts fast
 framerate == 29.97 && container == iso :: -mpegopts tele_src=24000/1001:tele_dest=24 -ofps 25 -noass
 framerate == 25 && container == iso :: -mpegopts tele_src=25:tele_dest=25 -ofps 25 -noass
 (container == avi || container == matroska) && vcodec == mpeg4 && acodec == mp3 :: -mc 0.1
 container == flv :: -mc 0.1
 container == mov :: -mc 0.1 -noass
 container == rm :: -mc 0.1

Or, you know... Just download the pre-compiled binaries: Download: PMS v1.21.1 (latest stable versions)

Tags: ant, DVD ISO, Linux, mkv, OS X, PMS, PS3 Media Server, svn, X11

1. Who ever said that the programmers hacked PSN? From what we know so far, even Sony still has no f*cking clue themselves as to what's causing the problems with PSN, meaning that it could be internal, and they're just trying to push the blame on others.

2. There is nothing wrong with doing stuff like this when Sony are the ones trying to bring down the hacking/homebrew community, which only exists to create cool software and solve problems encountered by your typical PS3 owner, such as the current problem that everyone is having with PSN.

3. Take your big corporate love somewhere else if you're going to blame others for something that, even Sony, has few details about. Granted I like Sony too, for what they've created, but not for the way they bully people and try to choke personal information out of them.

# jstSayin99 2011-04-23 08:51

Ahhh can people research a bit before leaving dumb ass comments. PMS <> PSN!!! Enough said.

# Vinez 2011-04-23 09:01

well, as PMS is written in java and thus platform independent, it should have exactly the same features on both windowze, linux and mac.

If you have a headless server your really should try linux ;)

# Andrew 2011-04-23 23:11

how have you been playing online with ps3 whats the alternative let me in on your secret

# Bill Stick 2011-04-24 12:48

fix it.................

# The Life Pursuit 2011-04-25 01:32

I thought I'd be the first one to reply to that post. huh.
No one knows who did it for sure. But that Anonymous announcement can't be just a mere coincidence.

# Sammy Lopez 2011-05-01 11:19

private networks there's a few already accepting ps3 connections but since I only play with irl friends it doesn't bother me we all hop on the same network and are able to play its like having your buddies at your house and everyone has their tv and ps3 in a different room it works similar to that.

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