I've found the solution to my streaming media problems!
While the Xbox 360 was a complete flop when it came to streaming media, a device that was just sitting in my closet gathering dust came to my rescue. The ORIGINAL Xbox is a FANTASTIC media streaming platform. But it doesn't do it natively, you first have to mod it and then load the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC ) software that does the streaming and playback.
I've found the solution to my streaming media problems!
While the Xbox 360 was a complete flop when it came to streaming media, a device that was just sitting in my closet gathering dust came to my rescue. The ORIGINAL Xbox is a FANTASTIC media streaming platform. But it doesn't do it natively, you first have to mod it and then load the Xbox Media Center (XBMC) ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC ) software that does the streaming and playback.
A correction on my previous blog, when setting up DD-WRT, you don't want to set it to be a client, you want it to be a "client bridge". The difference is when it is set to a client, your Xbox will be on a different subnet. I was able to play games on XBL just fine when it was set to a client but I was unable to stream music or pictures from the PC until I switched DD-WRT to a wireless bridge. The instructions for a wireless bridge are here
A correction on my previous blog, when setting up DD-WRT, you don't want to set it to be a client, you want it to be a "client bridge". The difference is when it is set to a client, your Xbox will be on a different subnet. I was able to play games on XBL just fine when it was set to a client but I was unable to stream music or pictures from the PC until I switched DD-WRT to a wireless bridge. The instructions for a wireless bridge are here
As part of my quest to turn my Xbox 360 into a media center I realized that if I want my wife to use it, I have to go wireless. Right now, if i want to go online, I run an ethernet cable about 20 feet across the living room to my router. I want my wife to be able to grab the controller, hit a button and be looking at pictures or a video in seconds. Telling her to "take the yellow wire, unravel it and plug it into the back of this thing here" just isn't user friendly.
As part of my quest to turn my Xbox 360 into a media center I realized that if I want my wife to use it, I have to go wireless. Right now, if i want to go online, I run an ethernet cable about 20 feet across the living room to my router. I want my wife to be able to grab the controller, hit a button and be looking at pictures or a video in seconds. Telling her to "take the yellow wire, unravel it and plug it into the back of this thing here" just isn't user friendly.
I eagerly arose this morning to check to see if the DVD was finally ripped and discoverd that the AVI file was created successfully! Yay!!! I copy it over to the NAS, fire up the XBox and THERE IT IS!!! I play it and the xbox shows "Opening.....".
A minute or so later I get "Lost connection with PC". WTF? I try it again, and get the same error. I had to get ready and go to work so I had to give up until tonight.
