Today I decided to see how to connect the PlayStation 3 to my Ubuntu, to share multimedia content such as photo galleries, Music and Video. For this  I found MediaTomb a UPnP media server and open source (GPL) administered like a  web interface, fast, intuitive and friendly. I't allow us to transmit multimedia digital media through our local network to various UPnP devices within the latter PS3, but for this we must enable some parameters that I explain below

First, you have to download the MediaTomb from the official website or from Ubuntu repositories, as it is available. :D You can download fromt Synaptic, the Ubuntu Software Center or APT.

sudo apt-get install mediatomb

Once installed, we have to configure the network interface through which our computer MediaTomb going to work, we do this by editing the file /etc/default/mediatomb changing the line INTERFACE = "" by INTERFACE = "networkInterface"

sudo vim /etc/default/mediatomb

INTERFACE="eth0"

Now, to work withe the  console PlayStation 3 edit the file /etc/mediatomb/config.xml

sudo vim /etc/mediatomb/config.xml

In this file, under <server> add network interface:

<interface>eth0</interface>

In the same file, find <protocolInfo extend="yes"/><!-- For PS3 support change to "no" --> And change it for yes, it is as follow:

<protocolInfo extend="yes"/><!-- For PS3 support change to "yes" -->

Finally enabling the divx for the PS3 on the line

<!-- Uncomment the line below for PS3 divx support -->

<!– <map from=”avi” to=”video/divx”/> –>

And leave it like this:

<!-- Uncomment the line below for PS3 divx support -->

<map from="avi" to="video/divx"/>

Save and now swe have to start de MediaTomb daemon

sudo /etc/init.d/mediatomb start

Lunch the MediaTomb on the console and copy the last one line; the ip addres and the port (ip:port) and entered in our web browser

hollman@saboteur:~$ mediatomb &

Note: I think that same goes for the Xbox 360, someone confirm me?