[TriLUG] Xbos 360 media streaming in Linux?

[Michael Ham]

Has anyone tried Boxee: http://www.boxee.tv/ ?  It sounds pretty ambitious,
but I don't know if my machine will be able to run it. It is able to stream
Netflix and Hulu and things like that as well.  If it works, it sounds
pretty great.

 

 

Bak wrote:

>Yes, but it has to speak uPnP to talk to an xbox.

> 

>I had some success with FUPPES -- I got it to transcode mp3-->ogg, at

>least. Never bothered with video.

> 

--bak

Neil L. Little wrote:

> VLC will stream practically any sort of media.

> 

> It also has a web interface so you can use it as a server.

> 

> VLC will also transcode just about anything to anything else as long as 

> it is not using real (real is dead!).

> 

> 73,

> Neil, WA4AZL

> JARS Forever!!

> www.jars.net

> 

> David Fox wrote:

>   

>> 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.