![]() □ Only needs an S-Video out, so we’re set! For software, we’d use Karafun, which is free and simple enough to use. □ Available karaoke players are also not free.Īnd then we have my HP Compaq 6910p: new and tons of RAM, but it’s the office notebook. Contacting Apple now to see if we can still get it exchanged. ![]() It also has an overheating battery that was recalled in 2006 but we’re still using it. So we have Faizah’s Powerbook G4: it’s nice and small, but it needs a proprietary AV out. Besides, having a full tower that generates enough heat to power the Matrix in a living room without A/C isn’t generally a good idea. A notebook would be better than a desktop because 1) we already have two, and 2) we’re trying to keep the number of running machines in the house to a minimum. The last choice that we have: use a dual-screen notebook. □īut anyway, that particular alternative is a dead end. Windows Media Player has a media sharing function, but you can’t drag zip files into its playlist. None of the karaoke players have a webcast function either. Problem is, we can’t find any webcasting programs that simply supports DirectX. It’s better than the original idea whereby we can browse for songs and add them to the playlist while people are singing. We can then configure PS3MS to grab it as Internet TV. The next idea that we had was to instead stream the karaoke playlist from the media server as a webcast. PS3MS has an option called Browse ZIP/RAR files, but that doesn’t help in this matter. Seems like a waste to keep 2 sets of the same files for different purposes (1 set is currently 7GB).īoth PS3MS and TVersity don’t show ZIP files on the XMB. The IRC channel that we hang out in to get new English karaoke songs also requires our files to be zipped for sharing. We assumed that they should be unzipped to be played, but apparently most karaoke players can play them zipped (in fact the free karaoke filter I mentioned earlier can do that using a bundled unzip filter). There’s a paid one available from Power Karaoke, but I can’t get the trial version to work (no audio in WMP, slow load in PS3 and hangs after about 5 seconds of play).Īnother issue: English CDG files are usually paired with an MP3 file for the audio, so they’re usually zipped together for distribution. A free DirectX filter available on the net can’t work, because it’s too old and missing some tech. TVersity shows them, but requires a DirectX filter to play them. PS3 Media Server does not show CDG files on the XMB, so that’s off the table. we must have them!).įorgetting about hardware for the time being, we need to do a POC. Hardware needed: PS3 (got it), mics with echo chamber (got a pair lying around in the old house), AV receiver & surround speakers (not really needed for this particular use, but you know. Initial plan was to stream karaoke files as video to the PS3. With vsfilter.dll in the Avisynth plugins folder, I’m expecting double subs to appear for movies with external subs (this is my assumption by logic, but might not be the case), so removing vsfilter.dll from the plugins dir might help with that. I’ve tested this so far with MKV files that have built in subtitles. ![]() (Take note of the different registry path for 64-bit in the comments) ![]() Replacing the Default DTV/DVD Decoder without Breaking Live TV Playback Then implement this hack to stop Windows 7 from using its built in DTV-DVD filter: So yes, follow the instructions for CoreAVC in PS3 Media Server’s README/FAQ files. And since I have CoreAVC with CUDA acceleration, might as well make use of it for the other 1080p files. AviSynth/Mencoder displays them fine though, with all 3 screen modes available, but of course, no subtitles. there is no Zoom screen mode on the PS3, instead Normal mode displays like Zoom mode). However, I have some anime files that don’t size/zoom just right on the TV (i.e. Finally managed to get CoreAVC + Subtitles + Avisynth/Mencoder working for the PS3 Media Server on Windows 7 RC.īy right, the default usage of just Mencoder for transcoding with subtitles is just fine.
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