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Streaming video to my Xbox 360

Asked by ahiscoc

I am new to linux, I want to install ubuntu and get started with linux but I need to know the answer to this question first. Currently I'm running XP, I use media player to stream all my video to my xbox 360 to watch on the big screen. Is there a way that I can stream video from linux to my 360 or will I lose this ability? Has anyone sucessfully done this?

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Koen (koen-beek) said : 		#1

I have used mediatomb to stream media files to my PS3 (I don't have an Xbox but I suppose if it works for the PS3 it should work for the Xbox too

It's only available in the hardy release of the ubuntu repositories but you can install it yourself also on gutsy or previous releases (feisty etc)

it can be downloaded here : http://mediatomb.cc/pages/download

I did have to do some small tweaking to get it to work completely though but once that was done it works very well - no hitches

all the changes I did in the configuration file in ~/.mediatomb/config.xml

1. to get the PS3 to see the media server : specified the network interface (mine is eth0, use ifconfig to check what yours is)
<server>
<interface>eth0</interface>
2. to get the mp3 to be a supported type by PS3
<protocolInfo extend="yes"/>
(just after the <interface> line)
3. to get the avi files to be recognised as divx formats)
<map from="avi" to="video/divx"/>
just before the </extension-mimetype> line

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