PS3 Media Server 1.40.0 Beta 2

The PS3 Media Server is an application for your PC (Windows, Linux, and OS X), that transcodes and streams your media directly to PS3 consoles, jailbroken of not, as well as several other devices. This latest release is still in the Beta stages, which means there may be some bugs. For more information about what this application can do for you, be sure to visit the official website, linked to at the bottom of this article.

General:

Built from SVN r813 (OSX version from r812).
Released as beta because many code changes haven’t been widely tested yet.
People have been testing the SubJunk Build, but I have so many things in there right now that aren’t in the official trunk so the testing doesn’t apply to the trunk as much as it usually does.
This will hopefully give us a more trustworthy idea.

Changelog:

• Updated OS X MPlayer to enable external VOBsub, ASS/SSA and Fribidi support
• Allow update checks to be performed manually (Windows only)
• Allow automatic update checks to be enabled (Windows only)
• Simplify PMS customization for packagers of custom builds
• Logging fix for headless configurations
• Added experimental support for iPad / iPhone
• Fixed DVD ISO playback on OS X (thanks, jjmojojjmojo!)
• Added support for the AirPlayer app
• Added support for Samsung TV model SEC_HHP_TV (thanks, coax-!)
• Added Aperture support on OS X (thanks, coax-!)
• Added thumbnail support for images (some code fromrayinblu.com/ps3mediaserver)
• The cache is now reset after each up- or downgrade (for versions higher than 1.40.0)
• Files with the extension *.vdr are now being recognized as MPG videos

Upgrade Notes:

For 1.23.0 and above:

• Just uninstall the older version and install newer one
• For versions prior to 1.23.0:
• To retain your old settings you may have to copy your old config file/s to a new directory.
• To find out where the new directory is on your computer, run the program and go to the Traces tab and look on the 14th line, the line that says “Profile directory:”, that is the folder your config files should be saved now.
• If you use the “media library / cache” option you should reset it.

Downloads:
Windows
Linux
OS X

Source: ps3mediaserver.org/forum

Project Home: ps3mediaserver.org

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How To: Install Windows 7 from a USB Key!

What if you want to install Windows 7 on a netbook or other computer without an optical drive? Fortunately, you’re not out of luck, because Windows 7 (and Vista, for that matter) can be installed from a USB storage key. Not only does installing from a USB key remove the need for a DVD drive, the install time is also greatly reduced – we shaved off minutes from the total install time. Our step-by-step guide will have you rocking the new version of Windows in no time!

1.    Format Your USB Key

Plug in your USB key and back up any existing data stored on it. You’ll need to format the key before you can make it a bootable device.

Open up a Command Prompt as an Administrator. You can do this by finding the cmd.exe in yoru Windows/System32 folder, right-clicking the executable, and selecting “Run as Administrator”. Alternatively, type CMD in the Start Menu search field and activate the Command Prompt usingCtrl + Shift + Enter.

You should be under c:\Windows\system32 (assuming your Windows partition is the C drive). Type “diskpart” in the command line to enter the Disk Partition command line tool, which lets you format and create partitions on active disks.

Type “list disk” to reveal a list of all your active disks, each of which is associated with a number. Make a note of which one is your USB key, based on the capacity. In our screenshot below, our USB drive is Disk 6 (8GB).

Next, type the following commands, one at a time:

Select Disk # (Where # is the number of your USB disk. We typed “Select Disk 6”)

Clean (removes any existing partitions from the USB disk, including any hidden sectors)

Create Partition Primary (Creates a new primary partition with default parameters)

Select Partition 1 (Focus on the newly created partition)

Active (Sets the in-focus partition to active, informing the disk firmware that this is a valid system partition)

Format FS=NTFS (Formats the partition with the NTFS file system. This may take several minutes to complete, depending on the size of your USB key.)

Assign (Gives the USB drive a Windows volume and next available drive letter, which you should write down. In our case, drive “L” was assigned.)

Exit (Quits the DiskPart tool)

2.    Turn the USB Key into a Bootable Device

Insert the Windows 7 install DVD into your drive, and view the files that it contains. Copy all of the files here to a folder on your Desktop. We put the disc contents in a folder named “Windows 7”

Go back to your command prompt, running it as an Administrator. Using the “CD” command, find your way to the folder where you extracted the ISO files. Your command line path should look something like “C:\Users\USERNAMEHERE\Desktop\Windows 7\”.

Type the following commands:

CD Boot (This gets you into the “boot” directory)

Bootsect.exe /nt60 L: (where ‘L’ is the drive letter assigned to your USB key from the previous step)

Bootsect infuses boot manager compatible code into your USB key to make it a bootable device.

IMPORTANT: If you’re currently running 32-bit Windows Vista or 7, Bootsect will only work if you use the files from the 32-bit Windows 7 install disc. The Bootsect executable from the 64-bit version will not run in 32-bit Vista.

3.    Load the USB Key Up with the Install Files

 

Copy all of the extracted ISO files into the USB drive. You don’t need to do this from the command prompt. Just drag and drop the files from the “Windows 7” folder into the drive using Windows Explorer.

Your USB key is now all ready to go! Plug it into your target system and make sure you enter the BIOS (typically with F2 or F12) to temporarily change the boot order to allow booting from the USB key before your primary hard drive or optical drive. On the next restart, your system should automatically begin speedily loading setup files off of the USB key and entering Windows 7 installation.

Note: This guide will only work within Windows Vista or 7.

How To Format A Large Hard Drive To FAT32 In Windows

Trying to format a large external USB or Firewire hard drive to the FAT32 file system? Can’t do it? Only see an option for formatting the drive using the NTFS file format?

Well if you answered yes any of those questions, then you’re at the right place.

Here’s another program that worked great in Windows . It’s called Fat32format.

Download link:

http://www.ridgecrop.demon.co.uk/guiformat.exe