Will Windows Media Player Serve MP4 files

[SCDVD]

I am using Windows Media Player to serve XVID videos to a PS3 via my network. It works great with no problems. I just made a MP4 file with H.264 using the PS3 compatibility mode in Fair Use Wizard. It plays fine on my computer but it isn't listed when I look on the videos menu on the PS3. Does Windows Media Player recognize and serve MP4 files?

[Baldrick]

Isn't it enough with haali media splitter and ffdshow? I remember a topic about this with some more information, I will see if I find it.

I use tversity as media server for my xbox 360 and it works fine with mp4 files.

edit: Maybe http://www.htpcnews.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=21984 (it's for mce but I guess it's same for wmp)

[SCDVD]

edit: Maybe http://www.htpcnews.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=21984 (it's for mce but I guess it's same for wmp)

I will try changing the file extension from .mp4 to .avi this evening and see if that works. I suppose the PS3 doesn't care what the file extension is. It it recognizes the structure and has the codec, I guess it plays it. I will report back after I try it.

[SCDVD]

Well, that didn't work. I changed the file extension from .mp4 to avi. It then showed up on the PS3 video menu but when I attempted to play it, the PS3 objected with a "corrupt data" message. I am going to try Tversity this weekend. I looked at their web site and it looks like an interesting media server with a number of nice features. My only concern is that it apparently needs a number of helper applications which seem to make the installation more complex. I have a general concern about programs that need helper apps; keeping everything in sync can sometimes be a problem. If "A" is upgraded, then "B" and "C" need to be upgraded and "D" needs to be deleted and "E" and "F" need to be added etc. Sometimes the only way to root this out is by crawling around on forums and other sites for a couple of days trying to find out why it suddenly stopped working.

I do have one question. Tversity gives the option of transcoding in the server PC to Flash or to serve it without conversion. Recommendations? Is there any benefit to setting it to transcode to Flash? Why take the transcoding quality loss if there is no good reason to do so? Obviously this is useful if a particular video file isn't compatible with a PS3, but is there anything else that I am missing?

[SCDVD]

I just installed Tversity and I can play .mp4 files fine now on my PS3. It's a nice program. I suggest that anyone considering installing Tversity first spend some time on their web site. There is a lot of useful and important information there that will make installation easier and save you a lot of frustration as well.

[dmaster5150]

I like Tversity as well however I run Vista and the Tversity service will NOT automatically start no matter what. I have read many posts about this but have not seen a solution (and have tried just about everything).
The service needs to be restarted manually in order to get it going (on Vista).
Other than that is is fine and transcoding works well on faster machines.

[SCDVD]

I had the same problem but there is an easy fix. Just put a shortcut to launch Tversity in your start folder and all is well.