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or if you want to be able to play movies with the computer off. or if your computer doesn't have much space and your xbox does (assuming you've modded the hdd)...
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i actually serve my content from a pc. i call it my "media server" 2 x wd250gb se drives... this way i can add multiple xbox's ... one upstairs... one downstairs... each xbmc has access to the same content, one location etc... much better idea in my mind if your looking at adding multiple "clients/xbox's"
serving media via smb works great with 3 xbox's playing xvid's or playing mp3's etc... my cpu load on the media server is less than 10% and my network suffers little to none.
media server
p4 2.0a
xp sp2 beta
asus p4p800
using onboard 3com 1000mb nic
linksys wrt54g wireless broadband router.
100mb fullduplex network
fyi.... wireless b or g is "ok" / "fair" for xvid streaming etc.. for 1 xbox.. but using multiple wireless xboxs, either b or g doesn't provide good enough stream... high signal db as well.. over -65db... less than 50ft to ap from xbox. wireless g also is a real pain when you have 2.4ghz wireless headphones, and a 2.4g wireless panasonic dss cordless phone, and a 2.4g wireless seimens cordless.... plus the neighbours have 2 diff 2.4ghz phones as well..... wifi just works for inet etc... streaming etc.. not the greatest in my enviroment.... would be nice to see qos utilized in a smb connection between the xbox and pc.... qos is built in to xp is the service is installed but it relies on qos aware apps.... it would be good to dedicated a x% of available bw per xbox... etc... hopefully to avoid dropped / loss frames etc...
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i had nearly every episode of the simpsons before i modded my box and added a bigger hdd. sadly, it would take a lot of effort to rename all of the files to be compliant with the xbox filesystem. i think a helpful feature would be to add a "translation engine". this would be executed during any type of file transfer (smb copy, ftp, etc...) through xbmc. xbmc would shorten and strip the original file name for the save, but maintain a "filemap.xml" file which retained the original filename. any time a file list were viewed, the filesystem names would be translated back to the non-compliant names.
any thoughts? would this kill performance? surely there's a way to do something like this, but with a more efficient implementation.
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pike
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it's been suggested a few times already, by me and a few others. nothing planned at the moment though
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oops. apologies for the dupe then.
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is there a another solution for this problem. i want to copy al my mp3 from the i tunes directory direct to my xbox but i need to rename every thing. and that is no option at all. i thougt to make a iso off al the mp3 but i can't open this file on the xbox.
does anybody have a solution for this problem ?
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there is always the question of what happens if the files are modified through another program...
i guess the database of filenames would need to detect the file is no longer there and remove the entry from the database...
if this whole map is resident in memory it could grow pretty quickly....
i suggest instead to have a simple file in the same directory as the real files (called something like filename.txt or filename.xml). that is simple enough to be hand editted if need be and is possibly generated on any copy through ftp, dvd, smb (though the auto-generation is optional).....
(it's really worth it! :d )
