Hi went ahead and tried out PS3MediaStreamer. It works for Pictures at least.

Here it is on the N900 running default settings out of the box.


One problem seems that the configuration screens are larger than the N900's resolution. Other java apps have scrollbar controls, but this one doesn't. Perhaps there is a way to create a configuration on a desktop Linux PC and then copy the config files down to N900. It may also be possible to just modify configs by hand, but not sure. I just wanted to test this software out as a proof of concept.

It should be noted that I didn't attempt to get video streaming to work. Apparently PS3MS uses mencoder, mplayer, and ffmpeg. I have mencoder and mplayer from extras, but no ffmpeg. Transcoding on the N900 may be too taxing on the CPU anyway. I run mine overclocked with power kernel, but I still don't think transcoding would work well (just a hunch).

It may be possible to forego transcoding in the PS3MS settings altogether, but I haven't research that because I couldn't access all the settings due to the scrollbar issue mentioned above.

Perhaps somebody can take this proof of concept work farther along and create a wiki page for solutions? I have come across many posts requesting UPNP server request and never solutions. This may finally be the one. I have never needed this feature in the past, but maybe it will help somebody else out.

Also, I must say that Java on N900 has opened a world of possibilities. To those who say Java sucks, think again. It truly is a powerful platform that works across environments. I do java programming and this makes me smile. I may even try to install Tomcat server on the N900 just for the hell of it now that I think about it....


CHEERS!

Here are the screens from the PS3:

PS3 can see N900 over UPNP


Browsing Photos


Here's my cat!


PS3MediaServer settings. Not sure how to use them as I've never used the software before today.


Web streaming (listing only


XBMC on Windows 7


Update
I was able to stream video after installing ffmpeg from extras-dev. It didn't show in the UI, but apt-get install ffmpeg worked.