Nice surprise with Linux - but can anyone help

[BENdage]

Hi all,

I thought I'd just make a quick post to say I put Ubuntu on my server today and its been a pleasant surprise. I had expected to have a bit of a crack at it, fail miserably and then stick windows back on like I did with Mandrake a few years ago. But Ubuntu installed flawlessly, set itself up perfectly and just worked. I've never used linux before so it must be pretty good if I can do it. All I had to setup myself was downloading the restricted drivers to allow the visual effects and that was it.

What I would like to know how to do now is stream video files to my xbox 360 from ubuntu. Once I can do that I can forget dual booting and take my server 100% linux. I have installed all the correct codecs with "ffmpeg" and "fuppes" that supposedly has the ability to transcode on the fly and stream to a 360. I can access the fuppes web interface from other syswtems on my network, it has files shared and can see my xbox, but the xbox cant see it.

Anyone use the same software and have any suggestions? Or do you use any other software to achieve the same??

 

[BillytheImpaler]

I have no idea about streaming to xBoxes but i imagine that it's reliant on Samba for its file sharing. Did you install Samba?

 

[BENdage]

Yeah I got samba, file sharing with the rest of the network works fine, and I've opened the appropriate ports on my router if that makes any difference

 

[whitecrook]

Nice. Ubuntu/Linux really is becoming friendly enough to replace Windows for another person.


As for streaming, no idea how it works with Xbox. But VLC has great streaming capabilities, and I have used it before, not with an Xbox though.

 

[BillytheImpaler]

is this any help?: http://linux.vanvalkinburgh.org/2007/05/25/stream-videos-to-xbox-360-with-patched-ushare/

It's kind of rough when you're dealing with a proprietary system like this.