QUOTE (gronne @ Jul 6 2004, 12:07 PM) |
About Xlink, you can't run it along with games you've backed up on your harddrive, right? I reckon it asked me to insert my game-disc. Really annoying as I don't often have them around. |
Yes, you can run games you have backed up, you just have to back up out of that menu and load your game, the streaming settings are only controled on your xbox, you have to have xlink running on your PC..... imagine it like using your xbox as a remote control for xlink on the PC..... it just stops you having to run back and fourth.
And to the person asking about streaming, yes it works fantastically.... i strongly urge you to use SMB streaming, the others i believe are pretty buggy and SMB is offically supported by XBMC team.
SMB is just standard windows file sharing so you enable sharing on your desired folders and add the settings to XBMC's XML file and thats it, no need for extra software running on your PC.
Thumbnails for games, it will not download them automagically, but most games already have them built in (for use in MS gamesaves manager) XBMC uses them, and for those that dont have one built in you can just stick a folder.jpg (or thumb.tbn?) in the same directory as the Games (or any APP's) default.xbe file and it will u see that............ this also works for movies albums, and i think pictures too (For directorys containing pic's, the pictures themselves are made as thumbnails abviously).
This is a truly great app that i would really pay serious money to have, but its free!!!
Fantastic work!
- Shorty
EDIT:: Stupid mistakes corrected.
This post has been edited by shorty on Jul 15 2004, 04:18 AM
QUOTE (shorty @ Jul 7 2004, 12:04 PM) |
XNS is just standard windows file sharing so you enable sharing on your desired folders and add the settings to XBMC's XML file and thats it, no need for extra software running on your PC. |
Can you show me a smaple of your XML file? I would like to add XNS sharing to my XBMC. Also is XNS a seperate program people need to dowload?
Shit.....
Yeah, SMB is what i meant to say.
@ Mr Blonde, SMB is what i use and is what is recommended by XBMC team, it is built into windows and no, you don't need any extra software.... i don't have my xbox here at the moment but i'll post a copy of my xml file tomorrow for you
*my original post corrected*
- Shorty
EDIT:: Anyone else finding it hard to keep track of threads they are in since search was replaced with google?
Thanks man. Post that xml file over at Xboxanomics will you?
Gracias........
ya, it runs ALL MEdia types, i was even suprised it ran .mov quicktimes files!
I can't find this file in the usuall place, ist says xbmc now on other ftp msg xbins for more info?
QUOTE (Breed_Beyond @ Aug 1 2004, 09:30 AM) |
I can't find this file in the usuall place, ist says xbmc now on other ftp msg xbins for more info? |
I found the same thing. Where can I find this?
XBMC is GREAT for playing back XviD/DivX Movies... as this is pretty much all i use XBMC for but it works great... XviD files are great as there close to dvd quality at a fraction of the file size... 2 cd rip (meaning about 1400MB) for your average 2 hour or so movie comes out real close to dvd quality.
u can convert your dvd movies into XviD format using "Gordian Knot" as this is the program that i recommend for doing this... it's free and so is the XviD codec.
http://www.doom9.org is a nice place to check out, has alot of info on converting dvd's to other formats (including XviD)
just thought i would mention this as "movie people" would like to know about this stuff.