[mythtv-users] Mythtv on PS3

[Michael T. Dean]

On 06/13/2008 12:52 AM, Wade Maxfield wrote:
> Bill Williamson wrote:
>   
>> On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Michael T. Dean 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?).
>>  This is incorrect.  As of fall 2007 update the xbox 360 can play
>> mpeg2/4 AVIs.

Oh, it's AVI, not WMV.

>>   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.

Yep.  I see the same with my recordings.  UPnP works fine, but won't 
play the recordings.  Only way for the 360 to play them is to transcode 
(or, more precisely, recode them).

Mike