Stream Xbox game to Android screen?

GenlyAi

So my wife’s always eatin’ bonbons and watchin’ her stories while I’d rather be shootin’ aliens like a man.

Or something. Bottom line is that sometimes when we’re hanging out watching TV, I’d like to also be playing a game on the 360. Of course there’s only one TV in the room, but there are a lot of screens: an iphone, and android phone, and probably soon an android tablet. It would be awesome to be able to use one of these as a substitute screen for the xbox.

Can it be done? It seems like I should be able to do this with a media streaming device like Slingbox or Vulkano, but my googling has only left me confused. For example, Vulkano seems to be able to record from the xbox, but the one thread I found talking about playing a game seemed to suggest it would lag by a second or more. On the other hand, if OnLive can do it over the internet, I would think someone could do it over wifi.

Alternately, is there any way to implement a wired video in connection to an android device?

Thanks, forum. I figure if anyone can help, it’s the guys at a dedicated AV forum. But since I’m too lazy to make an account anywhere else, I’ll ask some people who really like a webcomic.

Foomy

as far as I know there aren't any general consumer available streaming solutions that would get you anything less than a few seconds lag. And I don't know no android devices have any sort of video input on them, It's too small of a market of people who want that to include the encoding chips.

You best bet might be to get something like one of those small portable dvd player devices if any of those have an aux input on it.

GenlyAi

Thanks, Foomy. I did a bit more googling and it does seem like there are always a few seconds lag with Slingbox, etc, so I guess you're right. Again, it is hard to understand how onlive can transmit both the controller input and the screen response over the internet fast enough to make it usable, and Slingbox can't do one direction fast enough over a local network. But whatever.

I did stumble across the Spawn Labs HD-720, which does seem to be what I want, but as far as I can tell, they don't sell it anymore?

Foomy

well it's the case of OnLive/Gaikai being developed and tuned specifically just to have as little lag as possible, and most of the video streaming boxes are designed just for watching tv/movies where lag doesn't matter, so they focus more on picture quality, or designed just to record the consoles.

I did a bit of poking around and it does seem the easiest/cheapest solution would be a portable dvd player, some have aux inputs so kids could play a console in a car. and if you don't want cables running across your room to where you sit, monoprice does sell a few different wireless video solutions, not sure on the lag factor in those though.

GenlyAi

Ok, cool. I'm looking into it.

Synthesis

I was actually going to recommend getting an HDMI monitor with built-in speakers and a long cable. You'd be surprised how cheap they are.

In the past, home streaming through TVersity, Orb, WMC, Zune, PS3Mediaserver was always built around playing around with codecs to stream video--never actually stream anything out that. Sadly, it seems to be true still, and it takes complex operations like OnLive to get around that.

GenlyAi

Thanks, guys.

joeylikesubuntu

Synthesis wrote: »

I was actually going to recommend getting an HDMI monitor with built-in speakers and a long cable. You'd be surprised how cheap they are.

In the past, home streaming through TVersity, Orb, WMC, Zune, PS3Mediaserver was always built around playing around with codecs to stream video--never actually stream anything out that. Sadly, it seems to be true still, and it takes complex operations like OnLive to get around that.

i believe you are missing the point as a former ps4 owner i had ps4 remote play there was a 1 second of lag but what we want to do is hopefully motivate the developers into doing what they do best I am an electronic fanatic and I am fascinated with the work those guys do surely there are some nerds and gamers on the internet who feel the exact same way about gadgets like I do so if we can find more information please post working with computers and phones etc.seems like a fun job

joeylikesubuntu

hdmi in usb adapter via otg cable ? then all a dev would have to do is write the code for an app to display hdmi