What's the best programme to stream videos from my laptop to my ps3?

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Media player is a bit pants for streaming and will cut out randomly which annoys me, what's a good alternative?

TVersity. Very good program. I use it. It's free, you can download it from www.tversity.com

Google and download Mediatomb, a free and quick streaming program. When you start it up, pay attention to what it says its port number is, then open your web browser and type in your pc's network address (192.168.0.x:portnumber) with that port number at the end. You'll enter the Mediatomb control screen. There you have the option of choosing anything you want on your pc's hard drive to be streamed over your network. If you so choose, you can make your entire hard drive available. You don't have to pick and stream things one at a time, you simply add folders to the "available to stream" list.



Then go to the ps3, go to video, scroll up and hit x on the Mediatomb icon, and you will enter the folder tree of everything that you made available on your pc's hard drive. You can browse around all the available folders, select any video and play it. Essentially, Mediatomb uses streaming to create a direct file-sharing system between your pc and your ps3.



The downside is some stuff comes up as "unsupported data." At least, it does for me. Might work better for you.

Yep, definitely TVersity. They work together brilliantly and buffering only takes a few seconds.

I use Nero MediaHome as I already have Nero Burning Software on my PC.



Run software......Tell it which folders to share from your Laptop/PC....Start running server on Laptop/PC.



On PS3 - search for Media Servers.....They will connect.



Stream to your hearts content...As long as it is in a format the PS3 can play you will be able to play it.



Job Done