You can stream movies and music to your TV using Sony PlayStation 2. A homebrew programmer (Eugene Plotnikov) made PlayStation 2 software Simple Media System (SMS) Player.
Features of SMS include:
- Smooth DivX AVI Playback at decent resolution
- Pan/Scan and zooming
- Subtitles support (SRT and SUB)
- Visual seek (Fast Foward and Rewind)
- Multiple language and character set support for subtitles other than English
- MP3 Playback
- AC3 Surround support
- Full resolution
- Multilanguage
- Copy your movies and mp3s to your internal HDD
- Remote Control support (since v1.7)
SMS will read media files from a variety of sources:
- Network Streaming
- USB Drives
- Hard Drives (both the Official Sony HDD and any normal PC HDD)
- CD/DVD-ROM (and NO modchip required!)
- SMS can even read DVD-RW discs specially formatted with the DVD-Video filesystem, or CD-R Discs formatted with CDDAFS.
