<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV><DIV>On Mar 19, 2006, at 14.59, casey dunn wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite">music only..<BR><A href="http://www.twonkyvision.de/UPnP/devices.html#media-players">http://www.twonkyvision.de/UPnP/devices.html#media-players</A><BR><A href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephbu/sets/1637080/">http://www.flickr.com/photos/stephbu/sets/1637080/ </A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Progress is progress! :)</DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR>Check out Transcode360 for some background on why this isn't easy. (short story: Just because it plays in MCE doesn't mean the 360 will play it)<BR><A href="http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=497340"> http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=497340</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Doesn't the 360 require everything to be transcoded to WMV before playback? And does "everything" include MPEG-2? Because, it would kind of suck to have to have your Myth system transcode all your recordings just to watch them. The loss of quality, oh the humanity! And I could only imagine what kind of power this would take for high-def recordings.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR>Projects are getting there though...<BR><A href="http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gmediaserver-devel/2006-01/msg00009.html">http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/gmediaserver-devel/2006-01/msg00009.html </A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV>Totally nifty. Though I imagine making Myth masquerade about as WinXPMCE is going to take a lot of work before it reaches functionality near what a dedicated front-end can do. Does MCE do commercial flagging? And I bet the commercial flags are a bit different from those of Myth. Still, not to say this is a worthless experiment. I'd love to see what these guys could come up with.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>I hate to be a formatting nazi, but please don't top-post. In cases such as these, it was a little confusing if you were replying to me or not. Just try to do some in-line reply.</DIV><DIV><BR><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><BR><DIV><SPAN class="gmail_quote">On 3/19/06, <B class="gmail_sendername">Kichigai Mentat</B> <<A href="mailto:kichigai@comcast.net">kichigai@comcast.net</A>> wrote:</SPAN><BLOCKQUOTE class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> <BR>> stirring this one back up because I found an xbox 360! The 360 has a<BR>> media interface for talking to PCs running MCE. Is this really just<BR>> uPNP with some sort of signature? It would be excellent to be able to <BR>> trick the 360 into thnking the backend was an MCE box.<BR>Wouldn't that require the use of Microsoft code? As far as I'm aware<BR>(and it is possible I'm wrong) no one has MythTV speaking WinXP MCE,<BR>and I don't know if anyone knows how to do it yet (except Microsoft) </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE><BR></DIV><DIV>I stand corrected on the limitations.</DIV></BODY></HTML>