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.
Installation
You can install SMS Media Player using these methods:
- Using your memory card (Freevast MC Boot)
1. Download Freevast MC Boot
2. Download SMS Media Player
3. Include SMS Media Player to MC Boot
4. Burn it to CD
5. Install on PlayStation - Using a bootable SMS CDR (Modchip needed)
1. Download CD ISO
2. Burn it to CDR
3. Run it on PlayStation - Using a bootable SMS DVDR (Modchip needed)
1. Download DVD ISO
2. Burn it to DVD
3. Run it on PlayStation
Note you can also burn the media files to SMS Media CD/DVD.
To stream media files from PC:
- Using RadHostClient
1. You need to download RadHostClient
2. Run it on PC
3. Specify your Playstation IP Address
4. Specify media folder to make it available on your PlayStation by dragging it into RadHostClient.
5. Run SMS Media Player on Playstation 2
6. Press Start >> Device Settings >> Network Settings >> Edit IPCONFIG.DAT >> Specify your PS2 IP Address defined in RadHostClient on your PC >> Save/Update
7. Return to device settings menu, choose Start network support
8. Don’t forget to save settings - Using Shared Folder on Windows
1. Choose a folder to make available for Playstation 2, you can navigate through subfolders within your Playstation
2. Open notepad in Windows, enter the following:
[ip address of the SMB server (computer sharing the files)]
[name of the SMB server]
[name of the PS2 (any name will do)]
[username (optional)]
[password (optional)]
for example:
192.168.2.20
MyFolder
Playstation2
3. Save the file as SMS.smb. Note that you will probably have to type the ” marks into the SaveAs box in notepad, i.e. “SMS.smb”. Just typing SMS.smb will probably give you a file called SMS.smb.txt (although windows will hide the .txt) which is not what you need.
4. You must copy the SMS.smb file to SMS Media Player folder on the MemoryCard. Read User Manual for details.
Note you can choose Autostart network, so it automatically detect network device
Usage
- Remote (if you have one) button mappings in SMS file browser:
- “Reset” – turns console off;
- “Enter” – equivalent to “cross” gamepad button;
- “Play” – equivalent to “cross” gamepad button;
- “A-B” – display about;
- “Menu” – display SMS menu;
- “Top menu” – activate device browser menu (ignored in the device browser);
- “Subtitle” – equivalent to “circle” gamepad button (ignored in the device browser);
- “Program” – equivalent to “square” gamepad button (ignored in the device browser);
- “Return” – equivalent to “triangle” gamepad button (ignored in the device browser);
- Button mappings in SMS player:
- “Pause” – pause;
- “Menu” – player menu;
- “Play” – resume;
- “Reset” – equivalent to “triangle” gamepad button;
- “Return” – equivalent to “triangle” gamepad button;
- “Stop” – equivalent to “triangle” gamepad button;
- “Scan >>” – equivalent to “right” gamepad button;
- “Scan <<" - equivalent to "left" gamepad button;
- "Display" - equivalent to "square" gamepad button;
- "Time" - equivalent to "cross" gamepad button;
- "Audio" - equivalent to "circle" gamepad button;
If you would like to know more, please read the User Manual.
You can download SMS Media Player here. Enjoy your New Media Player, share your experience here.
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