Currently I am running 2 400GB NAS with no problems streaming video to the xbox. I have The Nexstar LS and the LanDrive NAS. Got 2 different ones to see which one was better. Right off hand, not really much differance. The Nexstar LS is more compact and looks nicer. About the same price too. Also stream music from one. No problem there, but the exbox does not like overly excessive amounts of files. I tried creating a playlist of all my music but noticed the playlists could not hold much over 7,000 files withouth causing problems. Also, if using SAMB with the xBox, the root folders will show up, but that is all. If I ftp to the NAS's, no problem. Transfering files is much slower when connected via cat5 rather than USB, but not too terribly slow. When ever I am transfering large amounts of data, I connect via USB.
I am in Iraq right now, so the two NAS are perfect for my needs. If I were in the states, I would have taken an old tower and put several large hard drives in it, and converted it into a file server. Thats probably the cheapest and best way to network your xbox for streaming. Using an old box, depending on the OS you were running on it, you could change the user permissions on all the folders and subfolders. With the NAS, you can only change the permissions on parrant folders, and editing folders is not as easy as if it were connected usb to the computer. If you do the server idea, check out the ccXgui_Lite. This will allow you to set up an SMB server. The only problem is space, which I dont have much of out here.
Has anyone else had a problem playing avi files with mplayer? I cannot play any avi files that I created with CloneDVD on there with mplayer. I have to use dvdplayer. Am I missing a codec or something? Or am I doing something wrong when I create the avi file.
This post has been edited by DHarvey44: Mar 9 2007, 09:45 PM