Help with Ps3, mac and media streaming

momo1975 · 08-11-2009, 11:08 PM

Hi all,

It would be great oif someone can help me out here.

i have downloaded about 4 or 5 different programmes such as medialink ets for the mac to stream to the ps3.

problem is that the mac ca see the ps3 in all the programes i use but the ps3 cant see he mac.

i have the ps3 media sharing option on, and the version is the latest 3.0 with the medialink prog a demo (dont wanna pay if it doesnt work)

can anyone tell me where i am going wrong, the option just doesnt pop up on the ps3 menu. i have restarted both mac and ps3 to see if that works and it doesnt ;-(

Uridium · 09-11-2009, 9:36 AM

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Originally Posted by momo1975

Hi all,

It would be great oif someone can help me out here.

i have downloaded about 4 or 5 different programmes such as medialink ets for the mac to stream to the ps3.

problem is that the mac ca see the ps3 in all the programes i use but the ps3 cant see he mac.

i have the ps3 media sharing option on, and the version is the latest 3.0 with the medialink prog a demo (dont wanna pay if it doesnt work)

can anyone tell me where i am going wrong, the option just doesnt pop up on the ps3 menu. i have restarted both mac and ps3 to see if that works and it doesnt ;-(

Try PS3 Media Server. does the same as Medialink and it's free. If you still can't see it from your MAC then you have either a firewall issue or something on your router not allowing the connection. Make sure you have enabled UPnP on your router and all firewall/security software on your MAC is definitely allowing both inbound and outbound connections (completely disable it to test if possible)

momo1975 · 09-11-2009, 6:13 PM

Hi, Can i ask how do i enable
UPnP on my router?

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Originally Posted by Uridium

Try PS3 Media Server. does the same as Medialink and it's free. If you still can't see it from your MAC then you have either a firewall issue or something on your router not allowing the connection. Make sure you have enabled UPnP on your router and all firewall/security software on your MAC is definitely allowing both inbound and outbound connections (completely disable it to test if possible)

momo1975 · 09-11-2009, 6:24 PM

i have chcked and is enabled.

i have a sky netgear router, is there anything else i need to fo?

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Originally Posted by momo1975

Hi, Can i ask how do i enable
UPnP on my router?

Uridium · 09-11-2009, 8:15 PM

There is an option on the XMB to make allow the PS3 to connect to Media servers. Worth checking

momo1975 · 09-11-2009, 8:22 PM

i have had a look at this guide and i cant seems to see where it says this?

is xmb the interface of the ps3?
i have enabled the media server bit it there anything else?

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Originally Posted by Uridium

There is an option on the XMB to make allow the PS3 to connect to Media servers. Worth checking

Uridium · 09-11-2009, 8:48 PM

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Originally Posted by momo1975

i have had a look at this guide and i cant seems to see where it says this?

is xmb the interface of the ps3?
i have enabled the media server bit it there anything else?

Yes that's the one.

Basically if the PS3 isn't seeing the media server it will be a Firewall or routing problem.

Have a look in the PS3 Media Server trace log (post it here if you want) as it may give you some clues

momo1975 · 10-11-2009, 9:04 AM

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Originally Posted by Uridium

Yes that's the one.

Basically if the PS3 isn't seeing the media server it will be a Firewall or routing problem.

Have a look in the PS3 Media Server trace log (post it here if you want) as it may give you some clues

Hi, thanks for your help here is the trace log.... still cant see my mac on my ps3 i did the 'search for media server' and nothing was found :-((

Help with Ps3, mac and media streaming-picture-1.png

Uridium · 10-11-2009, 11:43 AM

Not sure about the "Unable to retriev MAC address for UID creation line" but that could be your issue.

I'd try specifiying the IP address of your MAC as well as the Network adpator in the general settings tab.

also try changing the port from the default 5001 (i had problems with this port) to something else as that port could already be in use by another app (I use port 5005)

momo1975 · 10-11-2009, 11:54 AM

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Originally Posted by Uridium

Not sure about the "Unable to retriev MAC address for UID creation line" but that could be your issue.

I'd try specifiying the IP address of your MAC as well as the Network adpator in the general settings tab.

also try changing the port from the default 5001 (i had problems with this port) to something else as that port could already be in use by another app (I use port 5005)

hi, i tired this and these are the screen prints. still the ps3 cant seethe mac :-(((

Uridium · 10-11-2009, 12:13 PM

Try updating Java to the latest version.

momo1975 · 10-11-2009, 12:48 PM

my mac is on auto update and updated java this morning......

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Try updating Java to the latest version.

Uridium · 10-11-2009, 1:41 PM

Ah..

In the general settings tab there is a dropdown for specifiying the network adaptor the app uses. Is this greyed out or can you select and adaptor in there?

If it's not greyed out choose the adaptor for the IP address you've specified.

momo1975 · 10-11-2009, 1:45 PM

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Originally Posted by Uridium

Ah..

In the general settings tab there is a dropdown for specifiying the network adaptor the app uses. Is this greyed out or can you select and adaptor in there?

If it's not greyed out choose the adaptor for the IP address you've specified.

i can drop this down and i have 3 options each of which i dont know what the mean

Uridium · 10-11-2009, 2:14 PM

Not a MAC person I'm afraid but I assume you'll have a connection manager utility somewhere on the MAC?

In there you need to find your Network cards and find which have an entry that match the ones in the drop down.

The one you want is the one that corresponds to your main network card. At a guess I'd say this will be the one called EN1

momo1975 · 10-11-2009, 2:37 PM

yes i have found it and the active one is en1

i have tired this with the ip address as shown and still at a loss :-((

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Originally Posted by Uridium

Not a MAC person I'm afraid but I assume you'll have a connection manager utility somewhere on the MAC?

In there you need to find your Network cards and find which have an entry that match the ones in the drop down.

The one you want is the one that corresponds to your main network card. At a guess I'd say this will be the one called EN1

Uridium · 10-11-2009, 3:15 PM

Well it looks like PS3MS is configured OK so it does point to either a firewall or Network routing issue.

first thing to try is from a CMD/shell window try pinging the IP address of the PS3 from your MAC....

find out the IP address your PS3 has leased from your router; either from the PS3 Network settings on the XMB or from the router directly...

so from the shell window type....(where xx is the IP of your PS3)

ping 192.168.0.xx

momo1975 · 10-11-2009, 6:42 PM

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Originally Posted by Uridium

Well it looks like PS3MS is configured OK so it does point to either a firewall or Network routing issue.

first thing to try is from a CMD/shell window try pinging the IP address of the PS3 from your MAC....

find out the IP address your PS3 has leased from your router; either from the PS3 Network settings on the XMB or from the router directly...

so from the shell window type....(where xx is the IP of your PS3)

ping 192.168.0.xx

here si the result, does this help?

Uridium · 10-11-2009, 7:10 PM

OK so we know your MAC can 'see' your PS3 on 192.168.0.7 and actually if you look at the last couple lines of your tracelog posted earlier we can see that the PS3 actually sent a request to PS3MS using that IP.

does look like a firewall issue somewhere. I'd suggest the MAC isn't allowing outbound traffic on the port PS3MS is using (port 5005 i think we set it to)

Here's where i struggle due to lack of MAC knowledge. you need to allow all PS3MS processes and all Java processes through your firewall (or better still completely turn it off temporarily so you can prove once and for all that the firewall is the issue)