Posts Tagged ‘media server’
Serving DivX to the Xbox 360 from Ubuntu
Microsoft released the fall update for the Xbox 360 on the 4th of December which included support for DivX/Xvid playback. A popular choice for encoding video due to its compression to quality ratio. Could this mean I am now able to free up some space on my A/V rack? Currently I’m using a hardware-modified Xbox (original) with the open source Xbox Media Center (XBMC) installed on it, decoding my Divx/Xvid content from a Samba share on my media server.
After a quick poke around I found a package called uShare that serves media over the uPnP protocol that the Xbox 360 utilises. (more…)