I just started fiddling with it lately. In my opinion, it works better as a Media Extender than a Media Player. The PS3 supports Windows 7's MCE platform, dun need PS3MediaServer.

The interface for managing and browsing media locally is very bad. The albums, photos and video files all show up individually in the XMB instead of a "stored locally" sub-menu, making navigating the files a PITA especially when you have tons of CDs ripped into your library (they can only be grouped by artist, genre or year which if your CD collection is very diverse like mine, you'll end up with a messy XMB). It's even worse for videos and photos (since those typically can only be grouped by date, which in my case is not useful at all). Why they don't put a "Local Music", "Local Videos" and "Local Pictures" item in the XMB and put the files into those instead of scattering them on the main XMB menu, I don't understand.

Yes, I dun use MKV and RMVB. All my videos are in AVI format, so it's more universal. But the clutter it creates on the XMB is unbearable to me. At least as a Media Center Extender, you pick the server name from the XMB first (in my case, only one server shows up, my HTPC, which doesn't mess up the XMB too much).

This post has been edited by RAMChYLD: Mar 5 2010, 03:35 PM