[TriLUG] Xbos 360 media streaming in Linux?

[Mark Fowle]

I'm using it on my AppleTV and it works really good - I use xbmc as well -


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.
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> Bak wrote:
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>>Yes, but it has to speak uPnP to talk to an xbox.
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>>I had some success with FUPPES -- I got it to transcode mp3-->ogg, at
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>>least. Never bothered with video.
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> --bak
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> Neil L. Little wrote:
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>> VLC will stream practically any sort of media.
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>> It also has a web interface so you can use it as a server.
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>> VLC will also transcode just about anything to anything else as long as
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>> it is not using real (real is dead!).
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>> 73,
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>> Neil, WA4AZL
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>> JARS Forever!!
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>> www.jars.net
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>> David Fox wrote:
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>>> On Mon, 9 Feb 2009 07:31:09 -0500
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>>> "Michael Ham" <michael at bakedhamgames.net> wrote:
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>>>> Hi all,
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>>>> I currently use a Windows program called TVersity to stream media to
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>>>> the 360.  I am trying to lose dependence on Windows as much as
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>>>> possible, so I was wondering if there was a good one like this for
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>>>> Linux.  One thing I like about TVersity is its ability to transcode
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>>>> any media types that the Xbox doesn't support, to ones it does
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>>>> support, on-the-fly.  I read about a Linux program called ushare
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>>>> which seems decent, but can't transcode on-the-fly.
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>>>> Can anyone else recommend something nicer?
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>>>> Thanks,
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>>>> Michael Ham
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>>> I tried "ushare" on Fedora 10 to no avail. Perhaps I missed something
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>>> in the sparse documentation available. Other alternatives would be nice.
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