Good morning,<br><br>For over a year I've been happily streaming my MythTV recordings from my Mythbuntu server to an Xbox "classic" which was running XBMC. I did this by setting up symbolic links with "pretty" names in a nicely organised TV folder directly to the MPEG-2 files in the MythTV recording folder.<br>
<br>Now times have moved on a bit and I've "acquired" some HD content which I'd like to view on my TV as opposed to my PC, or by connecting my netbook to the TV so I bought myself a broken 360 (the DVD drive doesn't work, but that's another story) with the intention of swapping one Xbox for another.<br>
<br>I did my research before-hand and found out that the 360 does play MPEG-2, but I have since found out that it only does that through Windows Media Centre, not using uPnP/DLNA. Obviously as I'm using MythTV installing Windows on my server wasn't really an option, but a friend suggested running it in a VM. I tried this, and it worked (using a mapped drive from the Windows VM to a samba share on the host machine), but it was unusabley slow taking about a minute to become responsive after start up and then taking up to 30 seconds to respond to the OK button.<br>
<br>So, my question today is has anyone done this and got it working? Do you have any advice? Are there options I haven't considered (which wont cost me more, the Mrs is already annoyed that I've spent £75 and she can't watch Eastenders atm)? Is there someway I could transcode these videos on the fly into another format the Xbox 360 supports? Shall I just cut my losses and revert back to the Xbox Classic with XBMC and miss out on HD?<br>
<br>Cheers!<br>