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Thought I'd have a bash at this but been struggling. Keep getting an error message when trying to play the streamed audio. PS3 sees PCM tracks but won't play them:

"The folder could not be accessed. This content may have been deleted from the media server."

Don't really understand it. Probably done something really stupid. From the log it seems like TVersity is streaming the flac as a wav file but for some reason the PS3 won't play it.

Any clues?

TVersity is a tricky swine. It's not worth the hassle now that foo_upnp is available. I've updated the OP to link to a thread I wrote some time ago, bringing it to the attention of the forum.

foo_upnp is a piece of cake and has a single button you press which configure for use with the PS3. One downside. With the version I have, it doesn't stream the album art.....or at least I can't get it working.

Hey PJPro.

Beforehand I should mention that I'm from Portugal so pardon my english. I'm a passionate for music and everything that concerns it. Being so, the way I listen to music i.e., reproduce it, has always been of my concern but with recent developments on the way we do it have somewhat changed the paradigm from what used to be done to achieve great sound. I've been reading your posts about computer based music, and thanks a lot to bring up this issue, you're the first I can find that is thinking specifically about this. I recently bought a PS3 with the intention of using it as a multimedia center in my living room. I already have my music collection ready form the PC and my intention is to stream it from my office (where the PC is) to my living room (where the PS3 is). I've learned with your post about going around windows music processing with foobar - my question in this particular issue is: my PC is a laptop with no audio card although it has an SPDIF out wich I normally use to connect it to a Yamaha RXV-550 receiver. The sound is acceptable, by I wouldn't mind (surely!) improving it. 

The question I would like to put you is:

1 - Right now I have the receiver at the office and I plug it straight to the PC via SPDIF. Does the trick with foobar, changing the PC OUT also work without any sound card or DAC? Does this improve the sound, leting the music reach the receiver unprocessed by Windows (Vista)? The Yamaha RXV-550 doesn't have any DAC's for digital media, I suppose.

2 - In a few months (new house -> marriage!) the plan is: PS3 at the living room and the PC at the office to stream the music wirelessly to the living room. I should mention that the receiver, of course, will be at the living room, connected to the PS3 through an optical cable. I am thinking of getting a DAC (DacMagic from Cambridge Audio) and use it as a processor for digital music. I assume the path would be: PC -> PS3 -> DacMagic -> Receiver. The questions are: does wireless streaming hurt the music quality (more jitter)? Would it be better in the PS3's hard drive and then trough the DAC to the receiver? Is it still possible to avoid the Windows processing by sending bit perfect streams wirelessly with Foobar? Or does this only work with a sound card? I mean, when reading your posts, when you mentioned streaming to PS3 was it wireless? Where do you use the DAC? After PS3 and before the receiver? 

 

Hope I'm not being too complicated in my doubts. I would really apreciate it if you would care to share some thoughts.