[steve1977]

Again I've messed around with the plugin to get Slingbox streaming to VLC. Ive also seen a few sites saying that the guy who put this plugin together is very open about his code. Could that be a way to progress?

This indeed sounds like a good approach. If I read this correctly, this should already enable you to actually play the stream from within xbmc. Just install the plugin on a computer and then stream it within your network. From within XBMC, you can access this streamed file. Did you try this and did it work?

Is there any structure to this idea by the way? Is there a Project set up to investigate possibilities or feasibility? Is there anyone specific who is leading this through that we should be addressing these ideas to?

That would indeed be even better!!! The ultimate solution is of course to get this plugin into XBMC. Given that it works with VLC (and assuming that the dev is indeed open/liberal with his code), this might be working. Any of the XBMC developers interested to pick this up? Would indeed be fantastic!!!