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Popcorn Time From Mac to PS3

How to watch Popcorn time on PS3

For convinience I placed this little gem here. Just follow the exact steps and you will be able to watch your Popcorn Time movies/tv shows on your PS3!

I did not author this tutorial but was only lucky enough to find it, as I am not an active redditor I feared I might lose the article, hense the reason I created this gist.

Original tutorial can be found on Reddit kudos to Ferricfox who authored the post.

  • Step 1. Download Popcorn Time.

  • Step 2. Download PS3 Media Server http://sourceforge.net/projects/ps3mediaserver/files/latest/download

  • Step 3. Configure PS3 Media Server to be able to use web streams.

  • 3a. Download PMSEncoder https://github.com/chocolateboy/pmsencoder

  • 3b. Open PS3 Media Server and click on the logs tab.

  • 3c. Scroll 50 lines down or so until you see "Searching for Plugins in /Applications…" and copy that directory address.

  • 3d. In finder, click Go -> Go to Folder, and paste the directory address for the plugins folder

  • 3e. Drop your pmsencoder-2.0.0.jar file into this directory.

  • 3f. In the logs tab of PS3 Media Server, about 30 lines from the top, find where it says "Web conf path." Copy that path.

  • 3g. Back in finder, again click Go to Folder and paste the file path. I had to manually create a web.conf file in here because mine wasn't automatically created. Not sure if this is standard or not. Here is a copy of the default https://github.com/ps3mediaserver/ps3mediaserver/blob/master/src/main/external-resources/WEB.conf

  • Step 4. Get URL for Popcorn Time stream.

  • 4a. Find your local IP address. I did this by going to https://www.whatismybrowser.com/what-is-my-local-ip-address in Chrome.

  • 4b. Open Popcorn Time and start playing a video of your choice.

  • 4c. Hit the 'U' key to copy the stream's IP and port to the clipboard.

  • 4d. Combine your internal IP address from step 4a and the port number from the end of 4c (i.e. 192.168.1.55 + http://127.0.0.1:56489/ = http://192.168.1.55:56489/)

  • 4e. Open WEB.conf in textedit and add "videostream.Web,TV=Popcorn Time,http://192.168.1.55:56489/" [obviously substitute your result from 4d]. Save.

  • 4f. Restart PS3 Media Server.

  • Step 5. Navigate to feed on PS3.

  • 5a. Scroll over to the Video icon on PS3.

  • 5b. You should see "PS3 Media Server" listed

  • 5c. Hit X, and then scroll down to the "Web" folder, then TV, then click Popcorn Time [PMSEncoder].

  • Step 6. Enjoy watching free streaming movies on your PS3.

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I'm having problems with item 4c: it doesn't happen anything when I hit the "U" key on my Mac... How can I see the stream's IP?

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