arnova Wrote:Now I recall that somehow SSL FTP doesn't work on Xbox probably because of the fact that Xbox uses YaSSL and not GNU-TLS/OpenSSL like on the other platforms. You *may* want to use secure-HTTP(HTTPS) or secure-Webdav(webdavs) instead since those do work on Xbox
I have switched to the Windows version for over a year now.
But there are alot of features in the XBOX version that got removed in the Windows version.
Like caching, or the option to not automatically make rar's transparant in listing.
In my opinion, you can never have too many options (yes, I know, this provides alot of extra work for the devs).
XBMC right now is not able to stream from any FTP source, without connecting a gazillion times to it, for each rar files in a rarset, it made a new connection, instead of sequencing them..
And it tries to read all rarfiles, even when the part of the video being requested is still in the .rar and not yet in the .r00 - rXX files.
The rarlib always tries to see if all files are present before playback (they can be 0bytes).
Having options to reduce connections to a remote share is a must.
Especially if you have a slow DSL line, I used to have 300KB/s (4Mbit).
And I couldn't even stream 1Mbit/s XviD's, without getting buffering now and then.
I have since implemented OpenVPN on my server, and setup a samba share.
And I have 20Mbit internet, but I can't stream 720p x264, coz when the bitrate spikes, XBMC starts buffering again, but the buffer is too small, and will only play for 10-15s.
And then it starts buffering again :/
Speed over samba is a good 1.5MB/s, so with a bit better caching I should be able to just stream all 720p content.