Thread: Playstation 3 Skips while playing Movies

I stream movies from a D-LINK device and my PS3 will skip. Like pause and it is very annoying. The movie plays fine when streaming to my PC from my D-LINK. The PS3 just stutters...

Anyone know how to fix movie skip on the PS3?

I'm using Wireless but I don't think that is the problem, is it?

This is normal. The PS3 has a crappy uPnP implementation.

A reader, Kulmanister, did some very detailed digging and found the poor streaming performance over WiFi could somehow be connected to the uPnP implementation the PS3 uses

Another reader, Lennos, took the healm of investigation using Kulmanister’s tips and did some further investigation and found that during MPEG4 playback, for some reason, the PS3 saturates a 100 mbit wired connection at almost 60% worth of data (with no CPU usage from the streaming PC to account for potential transcoding of the media) — given that level of data saturation, the entire video itself should be transfers to the PS3 in under a minute (800mb DVD rip) — unfortunately there are still occasional stutters experienced and that level of wired network utilization stays that high the entire time during playback.

• The PS3, for whatever reason (RAM? software implementation, etc) doesn’t seem to buffer much video at all – if any. This causes stuttering and or pauses during playback of any media that cannot be streamed unusually fast.
• Most folks on Wireless-G setups seem unable to playback any medium-high or higher quality video (DVD resolution, 2048KB/sec) without stuttering even though they have the bandwidth to copy the entire video file to the PS3 remotely without issue relatively quickly.
• Moving to a wired Gig-E setup resolves most stuttering issues reported – but it is not an option for everyone (including me).
• In most cases changing the media-streaming software being used (PS3 Media Server, Nero Media Server, TVersity) didn’t have any impact on reducing stuttering during playback.
• PERSONALLY: Moving to a Wireless-N configuration did remove stutter for me when playing back DVD-rips. I doubt this will work for HD-quality media though.