Media Streamer - Linux to Xbox 360 and Playstation 3

[Paul]

jt at camalyn.org wrote:
> Can anybody recommend an equivalent for Linux that will stream media
> (video and audio) to a PlayStation 3 and XBOX 360? I am thinking, MythTV


there was a long thread recently elsewhere. I'll paste some snippets
below, make of them what you will!

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> Now that I have 4 UPNP/DLNA client devices on my newly sorted-out
> network, I thought it would be time to try and run a server for sharing
> all the content on my shiny 500Mb disk.

apt-get install ushare


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AFAIK my freenas (www.freenas.org) box is running mediatomb
(www.mediatomb.cc) as its uPNP server
and that seems to work reasonably well. I have to poke the admin
interface to rebuild its media database
when I add new content so that its presented but other than that its
hassle free.... It supports the messed
up Xbox 360 uPNP spec too which was the selling point for me at the
time.

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ushare is astoundingly bad, but it also appears to be the only tool
that'll do the job. I've been using it to stream video to an Xbox 360
and there are all sorts of annoyances. It's bad enough that I'm
considering rewriting it. I don't care to attempt to fix it because
it's written in C in a rather interesting way.

An old Xbox running XBMC appears to be the better solution unless you
need HD.


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Well in my experience mediatomb should just work, it's also used by
several NAS manufacturers iirc.


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> what doesn't twonky work with? I've found it quite good compatibility
> wisa.

It just about works with my Popcorn Hour NMT-100, but vanishes randomly.
With my Yahama RX-V2700 amplifier it completely scrambles the music
track listings.
With my Samsung IP HDTV it sometimes gets as far as listing content
directories, but barfs whenever I try to play anything.
Haven't tried my Reciva radio yet.

I suspect that there are settings that can be tweaked to make these work
better, but there is a complete lack of useful documentation on their
current website. Still waiting for tech support answer after 10 days.

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> ushare is astoundingly bad,

Agreed

>                             but it also appears to be the only tool
> that'll do the job.

On Linux, agreed.

Alternatively, Connect360 is great for mac->xbox360 sharing, TVersity
seems to be an acceptable win32 compromise for win->xbox/ps3/dlna sharing.


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DLNA is not just a certification process it's a more detailed subset of
upnp, any upnp implementation should be compatible with DLNA and vice
versa, mediatomb should work with all upnp/dlna devices but there are
various inconsistencies due to bad implementations.

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