Streaming stuff to the xbox 360... help? (linux?)

TheSonicRetard

So, I've got my media server and my PS3 (and PSP) working smooth as butter, but I'm having one hell of a time getting my 360 to play nicely.

My media server can see the xbox 360 connecting, but when I go to select the source for, say, a video, all I can choose is "console" and "Orb: Media - ThePerfectK"

For clarification, I'm running ubuntu and my media server software is fuppes. I was running orb about 6 months ago, and it was streaming to my 360 fine and dandy, but now I can't figure out how to get my 360 to research for media servers. It's finding a server which hasn't been running for 6 months now.

On the PS3, there's an option you can select to automatically search for media servers. Is there such an option on the 360?

TheSonicRetard

Well, I've got fuppes and ushare running together now. ushare has an xbox 360 compliance mode where it automatically configures itself to be seen by the 360.

So I'll just keep it as my xbox 360 specific music server.

However, I want it to start up when my computer boots, but ushare needs to be started as root. that is, sudo ushare -x. I'm still kinda new to ubuntu, so how can I start ushare with root access upon startup?

Xipher

from the shell go open up /etc/rc.local with root privs

sudo gedit /etc/rc.local

Now assuming ushare will daemonize itself (that is release the shell once you start it) you should be able to just add it before the exit 0 line. Now keep in mind that you should specify the full path to ushare, I'm assuming this is in /usr/bin but you should use the which command to find out exactly where it is.

/usr/bin/ushare -x

Now if my assumption was incorrect you will want to background ushare when it starts so it doesn't hold up the boot process, like this.

/usr/bin/ushare -x &

Again if ushare isn't in /usr/bin/ do this to find it

which ushare

Hopefully that gives you the information you need.