Video tools provider Onlinelib recently announced that Video Communication Server (VCS) has been successfully ported to the PlayStation 3. This is important to you as users because this means that you can now stream video on demand (VOD) - and enjoy live streaming and e-learning from the Internet to your console.

VCS, to those not familiar with it, is a unix-based streaming server. It is capable of supporting development of a portal and as well as protecting content through sophisticated security mechanism. VCS PS3 Framework is still under development and no release date has been announced as of yet.

Despite that, the following are the different features one can expect from the product once it becomes available:

• No Installation For Users
• Real Live Streaming To PlayStation 3
• High Quality Preview Videos Of Your Content
• Download And Encoding Of MPEG 4 AVC up to 1920x1080p
• Top Level Security For Your Contents
• Payment Gateway Solution
• Powered by VCS Technology

To know more about this, you can refer to our "Read" link below. It should take you to Onlinelib's product page for VCS PS3 Framework.

Damons2k2's Vilvic Media Center is a new media app that rivals Red Kawa's own media centers, allowing users to share their own media from their PS3 to PCs running the Vilvic Media Center. It's still in beta stage though, so expect some work to be done before you can fully explore everything this app has to offer.

One thing you'll have to remember though is that since this can be accessed from any web browser, this can work just as easily on the PlayStation 3 or the Wii. Make sure you read the Vilvic Media Center readme though, because the process to set it up does take while to complete.

In any case, Here is the release information for this application:

• Fixed the problem with streaming mp3's.
• Added support for very large files - should be able to handle files up to 8388607 terrabytes!. (in theory)
• When the PS3 sends a request to VMC for a file there is a header placed at the beginning of this file. In this header it specifies the size of the file. It appears if this number is 4294967296L (4gb) or bigger then the file fails to download. So the solution to the problem is to not return the file size for files equal to or bigger than 4gb. What happens for files of 4gb is that the progress bar goes straight to 100% but you will notice that circle thing in the top right is rotating. It is actually downloading at this point. When it has finsihed you will get the usual message that the download has complete. The strange thing is that it reports that the file is 0k but fortunately it is lying. Go to the video menu on the PS3 and check the file size and it's the correct size.
• Out of interest on my local PC the through put is approximately 4Mb per second.
• Removed the attribute replacespaces from directories and folders (it served no purpose).
• Added new attribute filesystemicon to the server for Unix and Mac users where it is unable to retrieve the file system icon. This has added two new images that can be skinned (folder.png and file.png). It is also worth mentioning that if you have large directories and it is taking a while to load the page set this option to yes and you will see an improvement in performance. The changes made in this release appear to make the icons load quicker (but atleast you have the option to switch it off).
• Fixed the problem on Unix (and hopefully Mac) where the file server was struggling to locate files.
• Removed the attribute replacespaces from directories and folders (it served no purpose). Added new attribute filesystemicon to the server for Unix and Mac users where it is unable to retrieve the file system icon. This has added two new images that can be skinned (folder.png and file.png).
• Added parameter to vmc.jar to specify the location of the server.xml. Now works properly with Unix and Mac.
• Initial release

Download: Vilvic Media Center v1.0.4