[mythtv-users] Mythtv on PS3

[Wade Maxfield]

Bill Williamson wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Michael T. Dean
> <mtdean at thirdcontact.com> wrote:
>> On 06/12/2008 10:09 PM, Anthony Giggins wrote:
>>> Hows the UPNP capabilities of the Xbox360 from Myth?
>> AIUI, the XBox 360 won't play MPEG video via UPnP (only from DVD's, it
>> seems).  So, you'd have to transcode all your recordings to the
>> Microsoft-blessed format (WMV) for the 360 to be of any use as a UPnP
>> client.  If you happen to have MythVideo videos in the right format, you
>> can play them via UPnP on the 360 (but what's the point, really, if you
>> can't get to recorded TV?).
>>
>> And, since the 360 uses about 50% more power than a PC (that can
>> actually run a frontend), I'll be sticking with running a real
>> frontend.  :)  (Of course, the PS3 uses about 33% more power than a
>> 360--or 2 times as much as a PC--so it's an even worse choice, unless,
>> of course, you decide to take into account the 360's inability to play
>> recorded TV, in which case the PS3 is a better choice than the 360, but
>> a PC is still better than both... [fade out, stream of consciousness] )
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
>> _______________________________________________
> 
>  This is incorrect.  As of fall 2007 update the xbox 360 can play
> mpeg2/4 AVIs.  The mythtv upnp server, however, does not work with the
> 360.  You can, however, use a cron job with mythlink and expose them
> via UPnP with either windows media player (mount myth dir as shared
> drive) or natively via ushare.
> 


This is not quite correct.

The 360 on our network works with the mythtv upnp server that came out 
of the box with MythDora 5. The 360 can see/play all the .avi files, to 
my chagrin, that I had hidden with the parental controls. It can also 
see the normal TV recordings but not play them.

  - Wade