QUOTE(cregan @ Jan 1 2006, 10:37 AM)
I'm not saying I "hacked" the xbox 360, i know next ot nothing about hacking or programing, i"m only 14. But what i am saying is that don't you think this is a very likely way "to" hack the xbox? I already said that i agree that the program is actually running on my media center pc but what im trying to point out is that the program is still refering to the xbox's hardware. The "no audio hardware" error proves this. If it were completely running off my computer then it would use my computer's audio harware right? If we can get a program to access the xbox's harware doesn't that give us a good opportunity to access xbox 360 files?
Wrong. What you're experiencing is more analogous to a terminal server session. The 360 is just being a dumb terminal.
Your "no audio hardware" error does not prove that the software is referencing the Xbox hardware. I assure you the 360 has a very capable and powerful audio decoder, as well as in kernel audio and a whole bunch of voodoo going on back behind the scenes to deliver a full, rich, enjoyable score to the theme of the game being played. This is, in fact, a "feature", more or less, of the terminal services functionality. Though some configurations allow for sound and other resources (printers/shares/etc) to be "brought" to the remote device, for the security implications, MS likely opted to keep only the vitals in for the 360 version of terminal services, in order to keep the basis for exploitation low.
It's also quite burdonsome on the network to have all that data piped over it. Large commercial networks with gigabit backbones, and a proper router/switch setup could do it fine. An idiot at home who uses a 8 port 10 Base T hub as a router....couldn't quite do it. MS would have to have a model that worked for all common network setups, and though very misguided, the slow, tiny hubs are seen in the wild.
I could also speculate re: Xvid videos...but it would be purely speculatory.
I will. It seems illogical that the Xbox would download the video from the PC and then run it. In doing so, either ram is going to be exhausted rather quickly, or it will require a memory card. The issue of rewinding/fast-forwarding makes this even more evident. RAM would be a precious comodity if one were to stream video to a core edition Xbox 360. It probably is doing some form of streaming, more analogous to a projector style stream. As I recall, certain video formats, due to their usage of the video cards (or some other voodoo; I really know very little about video cards, short of the fact that they draw really pretty pictures really really fast), do not show up on the projectors.
....or I could be wrong. And MS could have been foiled by a 14 year old. One who can master the complexities of reading and writing to a closed system, but can't read previous data written in an open system (ie: this forum). You play Kameo, let the big kids do the real playing. We'll let you know when we're done. ;-)
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