Montana Harkin

So we moved our media center into the basement and are now using an XBox 360 and a PS3 as our media hubs. The XBox360 works great as a media center extender but we lost access to our videos as the XBox doesn’t handle divx very well.

PS3 Media Server to the rescue.

Download the latest (1.20 beta), Start it up, and point it to our media. Transcoding as needed and everything is working great. From old divx to new mkv at 1080i, everything is kosher.

Now I needed to get everything running as a service.

See http://gist.github.com/455483 for the script. Place it in /etc/init.d/pms if you’re running debian/ubuntu. Might symlink it into /etc/rc2.d if you want it to start up automatically.

Right now it’s still in my home directory, but modify what you need if you want it in /usr/local/bin  YMMV

Just some info to hopefully save some time for others. During the installation of the Spore Creature Creator Demo you are prompted to install DirectX 9 (wtf?). I went and started the installation until it came up with this error:

A cabinet file necessary for installation cannot be trusted. Please verify
Cryptographic Services are enabled and the cabinet file certificate is valid.

After searching the web and trying everything under the sun, it came down to deleting the “websetup” folder in the %systemroot%\system32\directx folder. After it was removed I ran the setup again and everything went as planned.