2008-03-15, 16:36
TheBoxMan Wrote:1. Can I set it to save to a samba share?(as while I have a decent size of HD my father's Xbox is being used mostly for streaming and he only has the original hard disk (tiny!)
I have no plans to add this, partly as a nod to the BBC's iPlayer guidelines and to honour their agreements with content providers.
I'm using it on my original, tiny HDD too!
TheBoxMan Wrote:2. When can we set this streaming? and what technlogical obsticles have we got to overcome? (I'm guessing that the lack of a streaming feature is down to some barrier we've hit?)
It seems only the iPhone is capable of streaming MP4s from the BBC website - no one has had any luck streaming to VLC, mplayer or anything else. It's still being investigated.
The workaround would be to download the MP4 in the background and hand off to XBMC once a few megs have been grabbed, but this throws up its own hurdles, and given that mplayer on my PC can't read a truncated iPlayer MP4, I'm not convinced this approach would work either.
TheBoxMan Wrote:3. Anything an absolute rookie who's more likely to riddle your code with bugs than anything else can do to help? :-D
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