In the latest release of the Playstation operating system, Sony seem to have finally come to their senses and given the device the media playing functionality it always deserved.
The Playstation 4 is now capable of streaming content over Wi-Fi using DLNA, or playing content off external storage such as a USB device.
Supported media types for the media player are as follows:
Movies in:
- MKV
- AVI
- MP4
- MPEG2
Photos in:
- JPEG
- BMP
- PNG
Music in:
- MP3
- AAC
If you’d like to build your own DNLA server, I’d highly recomend running Kodi.tv on a Raspberry Pi!