[TriLUG] Xbos 360 media streaming in Linux?

[Mike Shaw]

Last article I read said the current AppleTV model would not be able
to do the Netflix because of the processor demands???

http://lifehacker.com/5138423/cut-the-cable-for-good-with-boxee-and-apple-tv

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On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:21 PM, Keith Woodie <kwoodie at gmail.com> wrote:
> I run boxee on my apple tv!  I hope they get netflix streaming working for the apple tv at some point.
>
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Neil L. Little" <nllittle at embarqmail.com>
>
> Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 12:25:06
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group General Discussion<trilug at trilug.org>
> Subject: Re: [TriLUG] Xbos 360 media streaming in Linux?
>
>
> I believe that there was a review over several of these streaming
> servers (XBOX too) on one of the ip-tv programs on Revision 3 recently.
> I think the program was Systm. I think it has also been done on Tekzilla
> (same source) but is more mainstream oriented (M$/Apple).
>
> 73,
> Neil, WA4AZL
> JARS Forever!!
> www.jars.net
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> Mark Kempster wrote:
>> I attempted boxee on ubuntu 8.10, on an older t40 and a vanilla
>> home-built machine. It segfaulted on both machines but I haven't
>> looked any farther than that...
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Michael Ham <michael at bakedhamgames.net> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>>>>
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