I was having massive problems like this, but after reading around and trying a few different things in this thread I can now stream 720p/1080p with no slowdown during 30+Mbps spikes during the stream (Up (720p) and Dark Knight (1080p) during the Imax sequences as an example) over Wireless G.

Previously MP3’s would stutter.

The only setting I changed was Microsoft MPEG-4 to Windows Media Video 8 in the Transcoder settings.

Tested with Up, Dark Knight, 3hr version of Watchmen and a couple of FLAC encoded albums. All of which previously refused to function correctly or smoothly.

Up and Dark Knight were both orginally encoded in mkv, and re-encoded using mkv2vob (Automatic settings, x264 transcoding codec, PCM instead of AC3) to mpg.

Now Sony just needs to implement mkv support for the PS3…

Hope this helps someone.

http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4025

For some reason the PS3 will only connect properly at 100 Half duplex and will not attempt to connect in any 1000Gb mode so I can only assume there’s a problem with my ethernet cabling whih is currently using Cat5e cable so will try Cat6 cable eventually.

And I’m only happy if there’s even one place in the internets where people can find what might be the problem with their particular setup, I know I didn’t although I was looking for the solution to my problem for too long.

I think we are in the clear with some different configs, but I’m just bummed that my Wireless-G isn’t going to hack it for a standard h.264 DVD-quality rip.

I’m *still* waiting for damn Powerling Gigabit adapters to wire up my house with something more solid if they ever happen.

Only today I understood I would never get wireless streaming to work with public IPs, dunno why. So I resetted my Zyxel altogether (it actually lost my password so it was an easy decision…), changed it from bridged mode to routing, made it to fetch public IP for itself, put up a local lan DHCP server, enabled NAT to my 192.168.1.12 address PS3 with ports 80, 443, 5233, 3478, 3479, and 3658 (dunno why PS3 would need http/s server ports open? but so do the internets say).

Enabled uPnP on Zyxel, personally I don’t understand why do some media server uPNP guides recommend you to put up uPNP service discovery also in XP or Vista although all you need is your WLAN/router/switch/WLAN gadgit to let its uPNP open some ports for you…?

The I was able to fetch DHCP ip for my comp, fired up PS3 media server 1.11.356, tagged the new WLAN IPs to my PS3 (IP 192.168.1.12, gateway/router 192.168.1.1, first DNS same as gateway, other DNS IP I checked with ipconfig /all. Most defaults, enabled uPnP and voila, NAT 2 and uPnP enabled. Finally, after some funny 8 months of constant fighting with the troubles.

Yes I was stupid not to understand to change to routing earlier but c’est la vie. Hope this helps somebody.

And wireless G gives me something like 14-16 Mb speed, kinda far from advertised 54

WLAN streaming stutters less if you gap the PS3 MS bandwidth to such extent. PS3 itself shows rather much less, for me 6-7 Mb.

Ah, now for some movies

I still get stuttering from MP4’s but can only get around that by copying the file to PS3 instead, my network sits at 10%, CPU and memory hardly register, so it’ just a bug – I can live with that from just MP4’s. Maybe there is a setting for this, it looks like I can tweak the settings – I’ll repost if I find it.

Setup:
The one and only thing I had to do was to force the network port to my GigE interface because I think my VMware interface confused it and also changed the thumbnails to 200seconds from 1second – other than that this is THE most straightforward app for PS3 out there – bar none… Good job to those guys…

http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/

Thanks for the clarification and that’s excellent news — especially for folks looking for non-stuttering alternatives.

Weird… where, on the originating device? Are you streaming from a standard UPnP A/V device, some other software?

I actually streamed a divx file without any interruption using Mediatomb on Ubuntu. So I might try converting files to divx and try it again.

My WLAN streaming problems are now finally solved with the latest firmware upgrade (2.76), it was lot better for me than before with 2.70 but now I haven’t had any hickups with whatever I stream through wireless. You need to keep in mind if you use for instance PS3 Media Server with WLAN you need to cap the upper bandwidth limit.