Technical Help

[henry_gray]

I just bought a PS3 from my brother, it is a 160gb Slim, I bought a HDMI cable to use in conjunction with the PS3.

The poblem I am having is that the picture quality when streaming from my server is quite bad, the the credits etc seems blotchy and the actual videos seems as if you are watching a low quality video on youtube. The videos sometimes that bad that you see pixels popping around. Taking the same video and watching on my 360 and I have no problems.

I purchased Heavy Rain and played it and there was nothing wrong with it, so it would appear that its when streaming, when I  converted my DVD collection to the server I made them AVI so the 360 could play them, so therefore them same videos should play fine on the PS3 and although they play they are not watchable. Any help would be appreciated.

[strangeplaice]

Which media server software are you using? Some feature settings which may need altered to get a better picture on PS3

[henry_gray]

I have a Windows Home Server, and with all dvds converted to .avi. The only thing that will be in use is the Windows Connect 2.0 (I think).

[strangeplaice]

I think there's been reports of issues with Windows servers. I'm not certain but you may need additional plugins to get a better quality. Have you tried a different format of video?

[henry_gray]

never needed to, I am new to PS3, as I said don't have this problem on Xbox, I have tried Mp4's and they seem to be the same. Everything on PS3 seems to be fine, I haven't really changed any setting since my brother had it. Why would i need extra software? The PS3 see's the WHS computer, and can play files from it, it just doesnt seem to play the files properly.

[strangeplaice]

hmm. What is the signal strength percentage on the PS3? You can find it by going to the network settings part of the XMB and viewing the connection status.

[henry_gray]

The signal strength is on 100%

[strangeplaice]

Are both consoles set up in HD?

(I'm asking these things in the hope that someone else is able to step in with the info and help you solve the problem. I would try using something like XBMC rather than windows)

[henry_gray · Accepted solution]

Its ok, I think I have solve the problem. They are both on 1080p HD I have 4x HDMI slots 3x at the back and 1x on the side. I am using HDMI socket 1 and 2 on the back of the TV. Anyway it was nothing to do with the PS3 and more to do with the picture settings on TV. It seems like the settings on tv for HDMI2 were all messed up so I matched them to HDMI1 and seems to be fine.

Thanks strangeplaice for your help.

[strangeplaice]

No problem. Glad you got it sorted