Browse and play recordings on PS3

[rbelisle]

I got a PS3 about a month ago and have been looking at the best way to stream recordings from my GBPVR pc to my HDTV using it. After much trial and error, here is what I have come up with:

Option #1 -
Use a UPNP server (like tversity). Works but the problem is that you are browsing files by filename. It's ok when you have an idea of what you want to watch (for example, the newest 'House' I recorded) but bad for my kids and wife because they are used to the MVP/Native GBPVR interface.

Option #2 -
Use the web browser built into the PS3 to browse the Web pages from my GBPVR box. Issues there are AJAX support (ps3 doesn't have it) so there are repeated Javascript errors that make it very cumbersome to browse because you have to repeatedly dismiss the errors. The other issues are the inability for the PS3 browser to run some of the Javascript so you can't uncheck 'pending' recordings so they don't show in the list. Frustration for WAF and kids.

Option #3 - Thought I could use the RSS feed, but again PS3 browser doesn't display an RSS feed, thinks it's a file and tries to download it.

Option #4 - This is what I ended up doing. I used the Yahoo Pipes tool to feed two aspx files I created in the Web/Public folder in GBPVR. The first page displays a list of all of the show names from the 'Completed' RSS feed. When you click on a name, a second web page loads with the episode list. When you click on the episode title, it streams to the PS3. Works well.

Just wondering if anyone else is using a PS3 to access recordings and how they decided to tackle this?

Ray

[garymeds]

only just got my ps3 and haven't looked into this yet, so valuable info above. thanks!

[rbelisle]

The Yahoo pipes tool was pretty helpful in getting what I wanted. Here is the link to the two pipes I created:

Here is the first pipe I call, it provides the list of shows:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_...8DXgBB50VA

When you click on a show name, it will call this pipe to show the list of episodes:
http://pipes.yahoo.com/pipes/pipe.info?_...f83hBB50VA

There is an option to create a badge at the top of the pipe page. This gives you javascript you can embed in a webpage. That is what I put in the aspx files on the public folder.

Ray