<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 23, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Greg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:greg12866@nycap.rr.com">greg12866@nycap.rr.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 07/23/2010 01:52 PM, Vitani wrote:
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<div>On 07/22/2010 05:08 AM, Vitani wrote:
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<div>Good morning,<br>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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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>
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Cheers!<br>
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I use the PS3 media server..It also works on the xbox360... It
transcodes on the fly...<br>
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<a href="http://ps3mediaserver.org" target="_blank">http://ps3mediaserver.org</a> It works in
Linux and windows.<br>
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<div>Just installed PS3 Media Server (there's a nice deb package for
Ubuntu at <a href="http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5589" target="_blank">http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5589</a> which
make it a piece of cake to install) and oh wow - it just works. Not
only does it just work, but I can play ISOs (although not with the
menus) and videos in archive files too! Playing DVD ISOs on a 360, wow!
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<div>Thanks for the great tip Greg! </div>
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I have recommended that to a few people in the past,glad it worked for
you...Here we have a PS3,and a X-Box 360 and it works quite nicely...
Some people don't like the fact that you have to install JAVA,but I've
never had a problem with it.. We have an integrated windows and
Linux(Ubuntu) system here, and the media streams to all the pc's on the
network...Oh,the other thing I love about it is it's free...<br>
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<br></blockquote><div><br>I use it for streaming videos from our PCs to PS3 as well, don't really need it for MythTV recordings as those generally work fine on the PS3 with the standard myth upnp server.<br><br>Nice thing about it is that I can run it on both my linux PC and my wife's windows PC. <br>
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