<div class="gmail_quote">On 22 July 2010 16:24, jedi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jedi@mishnet.org">jedi@mishnet.org</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;">
<div class="im">On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 10:08:55AM +0100, Vitani wrote:<br>
> Good morning,<br>
><br>
> For over a year I've been happily streaming my MythTV recordings from my<br>
> Mythbuntu server to an Xbox "classic" which was running XBMC. I did this by<br>
> setting up symbolic links with "pretty" names in a nicely organised TV<br>
> 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<br>
> like to view on my TV as opposed to my PC, or by connecting my netbook to<br>
> the TV so I bought myself a broken 360 (the DVD drive doesn't work, but<br>
> 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,<br>
> but I have since found out that it only does that through Windows Media<br>
> Centre, not using uPnP/DLNA. Obviously as I'm using MythTV installing<br>
> Windows on my server wasn't really an option, but a friend suggested running<br>
> it in a VM. I tried this, and it worked (using a mapped drive from the<br>
> Windows VM to a samba share on the host machine), but it was unusabley slow<br>
> taking about a minute to become responsive after start up and then taking up<br>
> to 30 seconds to respond to the OK button.<br>
<br>
</div> How fast is the machine that the VM is running on? How busy is the machine<br>
inside the VM? My experiences with AirVideo an XP are much better than that<br>
and what I'm using is doing realtime transcoding. Not a direct comparison of<br>
course.<br>
<br>
I suspect that MCE or the Xbox just aren't up to it.<br>
<br>
Try downscaling some of the content and see how that works out.<br>
<br>
[deletia]<br>
<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br><br></div></div></blockquote><div><br>I think you're probably right, my server is only a single-core 3GHz Celeron with 1.5Gb RAM (I'm sure I put 2Gb in though, weird ...) so it's pretty weedy and most likely not up to running a VM (heck it barely passes the Windows 7 minimum requirements!)<br>
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