Playback via Relax/Samba/Network/etc?

[invader zog]

For those of you who haven't experienced the wonderful goodness of the Xbox Media Player project, the development team was enabled playback of various digital assets via the Relax protocol or SMB.

There is currently work being done that will allow the Xbox to play .TY files either from a network-enabled Tivo or from a network share.

I haven't upgraded the hard drive on my Tivo. I'm not completely sure I want to do it either. I like storing my digital assets on my file server.

It would be amazing if someone could work out a way to have the Tivo stream video from some sort of a network share.

I suspect that there are problems with the "now showing" entry -- but what if instead of trying to inject the entry into now showing like MFSFTP does, there was just a placeholder entry "play networked video" that would then get whatever video was "in the queue" from the network share.

It would be nice to be able to surf through your available recordingsl ike you can in XBMP, but even if you had to choose the video on your PC, that would still be useful.

Why go to all of this trouble? Well -- I think that the Tivo remote/GUI is still tops (shape of the remote, the fast forward/rewind features,e tc)...

[Teron]

Isn't cwingert looking into something that will do this ( as in play ty files from a samba/nfs/other tivo share ) with his HMO project. See his thread.

[mavrcksd]

cwingert is doing just this with his HMO app...stay tuned

[jjjones]

I would but an xbox tomorrow of I could play .ty files on them.

IS it really possible?

[lart2150]

there is a thing to play ty streams if you get some 1337 xbox coders I don't think it would be to hard to port it to xbox linux

[mavrcksd]

Originally posted by jjjones
I would but an xbox tomorrow of I could play .ty files on them.

IS it really possible?

Yes it is..

Mplauley has done it!

Mav

[mavrcksd]

Can someone help me out in mounting SMB shares from TIVO to windows?

What app on Windows do I need, what are the commands from Tivo...??

I have NFS running right now. Cwingert wants me to try SMB..

???/ Help?

[invader zog]

Originally posted by mavrcksd
Can someone help me out in mounting SMB shares from TIVO to windows?

What app on Windows do I need, what are the commands from Tivo...??

I have NFS running right now. Cwingert wants me to try SMB..

???/ Help?

I think that this is the right syntax:

smbmount "\\\windows_server_NETBIOS_NAME\destination_folder" /mnt/remote_share/ -o username=WINDOWS_USER,password=WINDOWS_PASSWORD,ip=127.0.0.1

[mavrcksd]

I'll try that.. thanks

[mavrcksd]

[ BEDROOM ]#./smbmount
BUG IN DYNAMIC LINKER ld.so: dynamic-link.h: 46: elf_get_dynamic_info: Assertion
`! "bad dynamic tag"' failed!

this is what I get.

I have SMB on one of my tivo's in the /var/hack/bin dir... I attempted to copy that to the /var/hack/bin of the other one (bedroom) and that is what happened???

Thanks

[mavrcksd]

As you can see, I tried, with the one that had SMBMOUNT on it - and I tried all sorts of variations, and it's not working :(

NFS still is there..