<div class="gmail_quote">On 22 July 2010 16:21, 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:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
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On 07/22/2010 05:08 AM, Vitani wrote:
</div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div></div><div class="h5">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>
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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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</blockquote></div><br><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">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! I didn't think it was even possible :oD</div>
<div><br></div><div>Thanks for the great tip Greg! </div>