With the stunning features, PS3 has won lots of fans. The users of the PS3 can play games, watch Blu-ray/DVD movies, and play videos on it. What’s more, the users can also stream thousands of 3D and HD movies along with your favorite TV shows through Netflix, Hulu Plus, CinemaNow, and VUDU. Thus, do you want to transfer movies, music, photos to PS3 from Mac OS X for enjoying? Here I show you three ways.
Solution one: Stream movies, music, photos to PS3 form Mac with PS3 Media Server.
Download and install the best PS3 Media Server on your Mac OS X and launch it. Use the "Copy" option from the Triangle menu for a video, music menu and picture menu sharing with PS3MediaServer. And then, you can stream your movies, music, photos to PS3 form Mac with PS3 Media Server easily.
Solution two: Stream videos, music, pictures to PS3 form Mac with MediaLink.
Download and install the MediaLink on your Mac OS X.
In the video section of your XMB on PS3 click on MediaLink Icon and navigate to the music, video, picture folders where you saved your video, music, pictures files one by one. Once you've found them hit triangle for video, and music, picture icons and then copy one by one. This process takes a few minutes.
Solution three: Transfer videos, music, pictures to PS3 from Mac OS X via the PS3 Internet Browser.
1. Turn on 'Web Sharing' under Sharing, which is under System Preferences. Make a note of the address for the Website.
2. Go to your user directory in the finder e.g /Users/Yourname/Sites
3. Delete the default index.html and images folder and place the files you wish to copy here.
4. Fire up the PS3 and open the Internet Browser. Go to the address you took a note of in step 1.
5. If you have done it right you should see a list of the files you placed in the Sites folder.
In fact, the PS3 only can support MPEG-4, H.264, MPEG-1, MPEG-2, AVI, Motion JPEG, AVCHD(.m2ts / .mts), DivX, WMV, VC-1 formats. If yo want to stream MOV, FLV, MOD, TiVo, VOB, MKV Video to PS3 from Mac Lion, you have to convert MOV, FLV, MOD, TiVo, VOB, MKV videos to PS3 compatible format on Mac firstly.
Step 1: Import video MOV, FLV, MOD, TiVo, VOB, MKV to the best PS3 Video Converter for Mac.
Free download the best PS3 Video Converter for Mac and run it. Click the button “File” to add MOV, FLV, MOD, TiVo, VOB, MKV video files to the PS3 Video Converter for Mac. If you wanna join your several video files into single one, just check the “Merge into one” box for playing videos on PS3 without any interruption.
Step 2: Select an output format for PS3 and set the output folder as you need.
Click on the dropdown menu of “Format” and then move your pointer to “Common Video”. From the sublist, the H.264, MPEG-4, AVI, WMV formats are compatible with PS3. Of course, you can also choose the output format from “PSP/PS3”.
Step 3: Click “Settings” icon to adjust audio and video parameters.
Click the “Settings” icon and you will go into a new interface named “Profile Settings”. Note: You cannot support importing single video file over 4GB to PS3 directly.
Step 4: Start converting your video MOV, FLV, MOD, TiVo, VOB, MKV to PS3 on Mac OS X.
Click the “Convert” button; it will convert video MOV/FLV/MOD/TiVo/VOB/MKV to PS3 on Mac OS X immediately. You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface.
Tip:
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