On 06/03/10 01:20, Phil Cook v2 wrote:
> And lo On Mon, 31 May 2010 00:12:15 +0100, Neeum Zawan
> <m.n### [at] ieeeorg> did spake thusly:
> 
>>     I got the PS3 because it had 3 things:
>>
>> 1. Ability to play Blu-Ray.
>>
>> 2. Ability to stream videos from the computer.
>>
>> 3. Ability to stream from NetFlix.
>>
>> I originally had thought of getting 3 separate devices. A friend
>> convinced me to buy a PS3 instead. I wish I hadn't listened to him.
> 
> OOC why?

	When you want to fast forward, you get a choice of 1.5x. The next
bigger option is 10x. That's retarded. Even worse, when you want to seek
backwards, the first choice is 10x.

	Technically, you can go into a menu and pick stuff like 4x, but you're
not really going to want to go navigate menus just to get that.

	Can't remember more things now, but there were a whole bunch of related
usability issues for watching videos, that any decent player can take
care of. Fact is that the PS3 just wasn't meant for this.

	As for the streaming from computers, I use the PS3 media server
software. I had considered a Western Digital device just for this
purpose. From what I'd read, the WD had better support for more formats.
With the PS3 media server, it could handle a lot of things, but if not,
your computer would start transcoding live (using mplayer on Linux).
Sometimes it just wouldn't work (although mplayer plays it fine), or if
it transcoded, my computer sometimes couldn't handle the load (these
weren't HD videos) - P4 2.53 GHz. I now have a newer computer so that
problem is taken care of.

	From everything I've read, the WD device just supports more formats. It
puts us at the mercy of their firmware updates, but they seemed to have
frequent updates. Furthermore, the actual "frontend"/OS of the device is
based on GPL libraries, so lots of people add all kinds of goodies - you
can't do that with the PS3 media server.

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