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Telemachus

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« on: June 23, 2003, 02:27:00 AM »
I have now tried relax, CCXstream, BXstream, and now am reverting to SMB.

It seems to be the only one that is consistantly stable, and reliable.

Now tell me, why would I NOT want to do this?

I have already realized that files over 2 gigz won't play (any way around this?)

Is it possible to set up a relax stream AND a SMB stream, and have them both run at the same time?
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Jse

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« Reply #1 on: June 23, 2003, 06:26:00 AM »
no file over 2 gig can be run on the xbox its got gay file size limits if its an mpeg over 2 gig your tyring to run go get tmpogenc and chop it in half and if its an AVI go get avi chop and your done
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Telemachus

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« Reply #2 on: June 23, 2003, 09:56:00 AM »
Well, they won't run as an Samba share, but they run fine with relax and BXstream.

Can you have both a relax stream AND SMB set up at the same time?

I have not got it to work yet.
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« Reply #3 on: June 23, 2003, 01:50:00 PM »
QUOTE (Telemachus @ Jun 23 2003, 05:20 AM)
... and now am reverting to SMB ... It seems to be the only one that is consistantly stable, and reliable.

I'll remember that one when it locks up while browsing folders on my server  tongue.gif
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« Reply #4 on: June 23, 2003, 07:36:00 PM »
I can't seem to get mine to work for more than 10-15 minutes without locking up. I'm using 2.4 and serving from a RH 9 SMB server at 100mbps. I can hit the info button and see the cache got to 0-2% and it just hangs. I can ftp the same movies files to the xbox hd and it works fine. What give? you guys know any tricks to make this thing keep running over the network? I already changed the cache size in the config file to 32mb and it still locks.

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Telemachus

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« Reply #5 on: June 24, 2003, 09:05:00 AM »
That sounds like the problems I was having with some of the streaming programs.

Here is my solution to streaming to the XBOX... TRY THEM ALL!  Find one that works, and stick with it.  Each one has pros and cons.  I recommend trying them in this order:

1) RElax (XNS): Great program with virtual folders (Ie: you can share several directories through one virual directory)

               Con: Buggy like none other for me.  Up and running fine one minute, and then the next it can't find anything and locks.  Resetting the PC reaks hacok on the network.

2) SMB (Samba): Very easy set up.  Just share the files on your PC, and tell the XML of XBMP where to look for them.  Does not require any third party software.

               Cons: Because the XBOX is in essence "sharing" the file in a concrete way, you are not allowed to play any files over 2 gigz (the FatX limit).  Other than that, works great for me.

3) BXStream (XNS):  Small program that worked great for me, although it is only in its infancy right now.  However, with upgrade to XBMP CVS 2.4, it locks up when scrolling through the files.

                Cons:  You can not specify which directory to go to.  Each time, it shows you all of the drives on your PC, and you have to navigate to the right directory (which could be very useful if it would remember the last DIR you were on).  Also, you have to install M$.Net for this to work.

4) CXstream:  This uses the third protocol.  I tried it, with limited success.  It seamed to stream well, but larger files literally took forever to start playing.
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