[mythtv-users] Streaming MythTV recordings (MPEG-2) to an Xbox 360
Jay Foster
jayf0ster at sbcglobal.net
Tue Jul 27 20:28:07 UTC 2010
> On 22 July 2010 16:21, Greg <greg12866 [at] nycap
> <mailto:greg12866 [at] nycap>> wrote:
>
> On 07/22/2010 05:08 AM, Vitani wrote:
>> Good morning,
>>
>> For over a year I've been happily streaming my MythTV recordings
>> from my Mythbuntu server to an Xbox "classic" which was running
>> XBMC. I did this by setting up symbolic links with "pretty" names
>> in a nicely organised TV folder directly to the MPEG-2 files in
>> the MythTV recording folder.
>>
>> Now times have moved on a bit and I've "acquired" some HD content
>> which I'd like to view on my TV as opposed to my PC, or by
>> connecting my netbook to the TV so I bought myself a broken 360
>> (the DVD drive doesn't work, but that's another story) with the
>> intention of swapping one Xbox for another.
>>
>> I did my research before-hand and found out that the 360 does
>> play MPEG-2, but I have since found out that it only does that
>> through Windows Media Centre, not using uPnP/DLNA. Obviously as
>> I'm using MythTV installing Windows on my server wasn't really an
>> option, but a friend suggested running it in a VM. I tried this,
>> and it worked (using a mapped drive from the Windows VM to a
>> samba share on the host machine), but it was unusabley slow
>> taking about a minute to become responsive after start up and
>> then taking up to 30 seconds to respond to the OK button.
>>
>> So, my question today is has anyone done this and got it working?
>> Do you have any advice? Are there options I haven't considered
>> (which wont cost me more, the Mrs is already annoyed that I've
>> spent £75 and she can't watch Eastenders atm)? Is there someway I
>> could transcode these videos on the fly into another format the
>> Xbox 360 supports? Shall I just cut my losses and revert back to
>> the Xbox Classic with XBMC and miss out on HD?
>>
>> Cheers!
>>
>>
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> I use the PS3 media server..It also works on the xbox360... It
> transcodes on the fly...
>
> http://ps3mediaserver.org It works in Linux and windows.
>
>
> Just installed PS3 Media Server (there's a nice deb package for Ubuntu
> at http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5589
> <http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=5589> which make
> it a piece of cake to install) and oh wow - it just works. Not only
> does it just work, but I can play ISOs (although not with the menus)
> and videos in archive files too! Playing DVD ISOs on a 360, wow! I
> didn't think it was even possible :oD
>
> Thanks for the great tip Greg!
>
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I have installed the PS3 Media Server on my mythbuntu 8.10 (0.21-fixes)
machine and I am trying to use it with a Sony TV that does UPnP/DLNA. I
can get it to play ISOs and my recordings that I archived into
mythvideo. When I try to play recordings from Myth's recording
directory, it either fails or displays garbage on the screen. However,
if I first perform a lossless transcode on the recording file it will
play perfectly (this is how I made the recording archives in the
mythvideo directory). These are HDHR ATSC MPEG2 recordings. Is there
something funky about these that won't play directly to a Sony TV? What
exactly might a lossless transcode be doing that makes the files play?
I do have an XBOX360, but I haven't had time to try that out yet.
Jay
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