PS3 Media Center X is a free multimedia server developed by Red Kawa. It allows you to stream certain types of pictures, music, videos and files from your computer (where the server running) to your Sony PlayStation 3. It runs on most major operating systems including Windows, Mac OS X and Linux.
Features
Videos - PS3 Media Center X lets you stream and watch videos in the Flash video format (FLV) on your PS3. You can download flash videos from many places on the internet or create your own using PS3 Video 9. Music - PS3 Media Center X lets you playback MP3s on your PS3 without the need of any copying or downloading.
Pictures - Red Kawa Media Center lets you view pictures on your PS3 without the need of any copying or downloading.
Files - PS3 Media Center X lets you browse and copy files located on your server to your PS3.
Download
The latest version of PS3 Media Center X can be downloaded by clicking the link below.
Notice: There are known issues with this first early alpha. You can find out more details here. We are working hard to fix these issues.
Download Now - Windows Installer Early Alpha
Download Now - Multi-platform Alpha (Mac OS X, Linux, Unix)
Tutorials
To learn how to setup and use PS3 Media Center X, please visit our tutorials section for screenshots and more detailed explanations about the features of the Red Kawa Media Centers.
Tutorials
Donate
Although PS3 Media Center X is available free of charge, there are still costs involved with developing and distributing the software. If you enjoy using PS3 Media Center X and would like to support its development, please consider making a donation.
Donate
Contact
Please use the Red Kawa Media Center Forum for any help requests, technical support requests, software problems, bug reports or feature requests related to PS3 Media Center X.
If you need to contact the Red Kawa Media Center development team regarding an issue that is NOT mentioned above, please use this contact form.
This tutorial will help your install Media Center X (MCX) on a Mac that is running OS X.
Requirements: Mac OS 10.4 (Tiger) or newer Java 1.5 Unfortunately at the moment MCX requires the Java 1.5 (5.0) runtime environment (JRE) or newer to run. As of right now Apple has only released the Java 1.5 for OS X 10.4 (Tiger) and according to their Java FAQ “There are no plans to release J2SE 5.0 for earlier releases of Mac OS X”.
If you have managed to successfully run MCX on a version of OSX 1.4 please let us know what version of Java you are running and any modifications you made.
In the future we hope to release a version of MCX that officially supports older versions of OS X (JRE 1.4.2).
Installation Steps: Unzip the mediacenterX_Jar.zip to your desktop. Open a terminal Click Applications->Utilities->Terminal.app Change directories to mediacenterx_jar folder on your desktop cd ~/Desktop/mediacenterx_jar/ Run MCX java -jar MediaCenter.jar If you see errors or warnings on the terminal screen read the Troubleshooting section bellow. Test MCX from your computer When MCX starts it will inform you what Internet Address and Port the server is running on, write this address down.
Open a web browser and open the MCX address you wrote down. If you do not see the MCX screen you should check your terminal screen for errors and read the Troubleshooting section of this document. Run MCX from your console Using your console’s web browser open the web address you wrote down in step 5. At this point you should see the MCX screen and your all done. Check out the Red Kawa Forums for Skins and other MCX information.
If you do not see the MCX screen proceed to Step 7 to update your firewall settings. Updating your firewall settings If you can use MCX on your computer but not on your console you need to configure your computer’s firewall to allow connects to the MCX server. Open the System Preferences Click the Sharing Icon in the Internet & Network section Click on Firewall and in that section, click the New Button Click the Port Name dropdown and select Other Type in 8192 (if you changed the default port to something else use that here) for both TCP and UDP Port Number fields and give it a description like Media Center X Click Ok and Reload the MCX webpage on your console. Troubleshooting:
A. Failed SocketConnector
MCX is a small web server and it needs a free TCP port to listen on. The default port for MCX is 8192 but there is a possibility that another application is already using this port. To get around this error you will need to change the default port number to one that is not being used. Stop MCX if it is running Edit webserver.prop located inside the mediacenterx_jar folder on your desktop using a text editor. Change the 8192 to 8196 Save webserver.prop Run MCX --> java -jar MediaCenter.jar If you still get this error try different port numbers, examples: 8250, 8257, etc. Anything above > 1024! B. UnsupportedClassVersionError
Unfortunately at the moment MCX requires OS X 1.4 or newer and the Java 1.5 runtime environment. We hope to release a version in the future that supports older version of OS X / Java.
Credits:
The Red Kawa development team would like to thank the following Red Kawa Forum members for their help troubleshooting MCX on OS X.
msgyrd, ExtraLars, artist25, Bluearmy, forcaca, babywriter, jackcheng, and everyone else who reported problems using MCX on OS X.
Feedback: If you notice any mistakes or feel that something was left out of this tutorial please let us know.