After managing to build a functional copy of MediaTomb for my DroboShare, I then found out that it doesn’t support the Xbox 360. Yay… the single device that I wanted to work with it. Oh well, I suppose I should have loaded up the Ubuntu based version first or something beforehand. According to the authors of MediaTomb, it is the fault of Microsoft. That I can believe. I have yet to do a protocol trace but I do know that most other UPnP media servers have a special switch that you have to flip to make it work with the Xbox 360. What a bummer… so much for the UPnP “standard”.
Ahhhh, the joys of the standards compliance…
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#1 by Peter on May 15, 2009 - 12:28 am
Bother. me too. I had such high expectations!
#2 by John on June 16, 2009 - 6:49 am
I just spent the better half of the morning trying to get mediatomb loaded on an NSLU2 to find out it is not supported doh!
Ushare I know works with the 360. I might try fuppes next. I am trying to get album art to work!
#3 by RockZors on February 4, 2010 - 10:28 pm
Although I do have a PS3 i much prefer the Xbox for playback as well, but I suppose it doesn’t really matter considering the biggest reason I wanted Mediatomb was so i didn’t have to reconvert all my HD movies from .mkv’s to mp4; alas it would have not mattered anyways, cause the Xbox and PS3 don’t support them, ill guess ill just wait until http://www.boxee.tv/ comes out and use the smb.