Hi Dirk,
Unfortunatly the XBOX only suports streaming video using MCX. A lot of
the hardware extenders I have seen also only support MCX.
Sorry for the confusion it is not a feature request for freevo that
would be pretty stupid. I imagine an implementation would be more like a
vnc server. And if you wanted to use freevo over it then you could run
freevo inside a session.
I asked on this list because if there was any existing work being done
on it then someone here would probably know.
Cheers Jared.
Dirk Meyer wrote:
Jared Kells wrote:
I am writing to see if anyone knows of any work done on an open source
implementation of Microsoft's MCX protocol.
Not that I know of.
For those that don't know Media Center Extenders are network devices
that plug into your TV and extend Windows Media Center Edition over a
network. The idea is that you have your Media Center PC in one room
and you have an extender in all the other rooms in your house that
have a TV.
I thought this is what uPnP is for. OK, uPnP sucks, but last time I
checked Microsoft was supporting it.
I think Microsofts products will push media PC's into the mainstream
and it would be great if we could support all the 3rd party hardware
extenders that will hit the market under Linux.
The XBOX 360 can act as a media center extender. And personally I
would like to move my Freevo pc out of the lounge room and just have
the XBOX extend it.
You can use uPnP to do that.
Apparantly the MCX protocol is a cutdown version of Remote desktop
protocol with a seperate UDP connection to stream the A/V.
Remote Desktop Server For *Nix
http://xrdp.sourceforge.net/
Remote desktop? OK, that part will never be part of Freevo. This is
total overkill. I also to support uPnP in Freevo 2.0 but I won't spend
any time in supporting MCX.
Dischi
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