[TriLUG] Xbos 360 media streaming in Linux?

Justin Parker xjparkerx at gmail.com
Mon Feb 9 11:27:39 EST 2009


Howdy,

Correct ushare is a good stable upnp server but doesn't transcoding on 
the fly.  However, mediatomb does!

http://mediatomb.cc/

Good howto's for it on Ubuntu are all over the tubes.  Not as easy to 
setup as ushare but has A LOT more features.

Justin

David Fox wrote:
> http://mediatomb.cc/On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 07:31:09 -0500
> "Michael Ham"<michael at bakedhamgames.net>  wrote:
>
>    
>> Hi all,
>>
>>
>>
>> I currently use a Windows program called TVersity to stream media to
>> the 360.  I am trying to lose dependence on Windows as much as
>> possible, so I was wondering if there was a good one like this for
>> Linux.  One thing I like about TVersity is its ability to transcode
>> any media types that the Xbox doesn't support, to ones it does
>> support, on-the-fly.  I read about a Linux program called ushare
>> which seems decent, but can't transcode on-the-fly.
>>
>>
>>
>> Can anyone else recommend something nicer?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Michael Ham
>>
>>      
>
> I tried "ushare" on Fedora 10 to no avail. Perhaps I missed something
> in the sparse documentation available. Other alternatives would be nice.
>
>    




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