[carmine]

What is the best way to have my Xbox and my mac play together? I want to stream to Xbox media player. I am looking at Samba - is this the best route? thanks!

[ShotgunEd]

stream to it? Yeh, windows file sharing (samba) is the way to go. If you want to store stuff on the xbox you just ftp to it.

Im getting my xbox chipped so i can play all my mp3s and divxs on it. It will wail.

[carmine]

cool. i got the samba sharing package, but i hope panther will eliminate the need for this program cause its kind of a pain in the rear....and suggestions on getting the stuff to stream the easiest?

[King Bob On The Cob]

Have you tried putting the XboxLinux on it?

[NYK Ace]

i too am interested in this

what is this samba, is it built into os x? i am looking for something detailed about hooking a mac and xbox together, any ideas?

[Brass]

Samba is the standard unix package for implementing the SMB file sharing (and printer sharing) protocol usually used in Windows environments.

Yes, it is built into Mac OS X and you don't need to install anything to use it.

However, Samba has nothing to do with streaming services. It mearly does file sharing services. Are you sure it's streaming that you want, or just access to the MP3 files as stored on the remote computer?

[neoTony]

I use the xbms commandline tool (http://wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de/~ck/) with my X-box - works a lot more reliably (and much easier to setup) than Samba sharing to the X-box. Send me a pm if you need help setting xbms up.

[Chips G]

After a few weeks of messing around, I am now posting this message from my Xbox running Gentoo. If you want any help, im me on aim (gilp1n). And no, you dont need to mod your xbox in ANY way to run xbox medial player or install linux (or windows for that fact) so dont bother wasting your money with a modchip.

[JeremyS]

Can you guys go into more details as to what's possible right now using MAC OS X and Xbox? How do you do this?

[carmine]

for everyone interested in xbox (and mac) stuff check out xbox-scene.com its the best xbox resource i have found. check out the forums, thats where i learned most of the stuff i know.

[ShotgunEd]

Chris, I added you to my AIM. I totally need to talk to you about the Media Player/Linux without a chip thing.

add me too

rossneely be my .mac name.

[Chips G]

What you need to install Gentoo (www.gentoo.org) onto your xbox:

An unmodded Xbox
A home network (or any new mac really)
USB - XBOX Adapter (you can get it free, search google for PSO adapter xbox)
Internet connection
Way of getting savegame hack from comp onto xbox (I use Action Replay, I hear mega key X or something is good too)

Either a windows PC, or Virtual PC (to run action replay software, i dont know if you need it for mega key x)

[NYK Ace]

just sharing files would be all i need and then i could just copy whatever i want to the Xbox HD right? And what kind of media can the xbox play? is the media player built into the box or do you have to dl it from somewhere?

thanks alot im looking at a great deal at game stop but wanna know what the capabilities of the Xbox are first

[carmine]

if you want to "share" files via the xbox, all you need is the ability to set up a streaming system (options are samba, xns, xbms - this is the most confusing aspect imo) and then set up the xbox media player (xboxmediaplayer.de) to see the mac and be able to stream stuff. you can also copy stuff to the xbox if you upgrade your hard drive. then you can play it off you xbox hard drive. be careful about the disc drives in the xbox: only the samsung drives can read cd-r's.

[OwlBoy]

Originally posted by Chris Gilpin:
What you need to install Gentoo (www.gentoo.org) onto your xbox:

An unmodded Xbox
A home network (or any new mac really)
USB - XBOX Adapter (you can get it free, search google for PSO adapter xbox)
Internet connection
Way of getting savegame hack from comp onto xbox (I use Action Replay, I hear mega key X or something is good too)

Either a windows PC, or Virtual PC (to run action replay software, i dont know if you need it for mega key x)

Wait wait wait...

You can put a media player on a XBox without a modchip?

Do you have to be a rocket scientist to figure it out?

Can you give detailed, or link to detailed instructions for dummies?

As someone stated in another thread, the whole hacking the XBox scene is not very kind to n00bs.

-Owl

[carmine]

for xbox media player to work, you need a modded box. but it really is worth it to get it modded, you can do some crazy cool stuff with it. if you arnt interested in doing any soldering, there are some installers on the forums at xbox-scene.com - im getting a premod with a 120 gig hard and a chip drive for $375...

[Chips G]

OwlBoy: Correct, you do not need a modchip, or even take apart the xbox!

If you want any help just message gilp1n on aim.

[NYK Ace]

this is connnnfusing lol

i really wanna mod the xbox i was watching techtv and they are doing some sweet stuff with it but i dont know how to solder or even where to begin to start this project

[carmine]

a new version of xBmsx just came out. was wondering if anyone had tried this. question: can you add more than one share? in the preference pane it just lets you select one...

[carmine]

Xbox networking question for yall.

My network work like this:

Cable Modem --> Linksys Wireless AP/Router --> Apple Powerbook via Airport --> Ethernet cable to Apple G4 Tower --> Xbox via crossover ethernet cable

I havent gotten my xbox yet, but I was wondering if I need to do anything special because of this to have the xbox be able to connect to the internet ok. thanks!

PS - when i hooked my ps2 up to the network like this i needed to do some weird stuff with it, fyi.

[jerome9]

I do Cable modem -> Linksys Wireless-G -> Xbox,PC,Powerbook(wireless)

no probs, Xbox uses DHCP to get it's addy and what not

this is just for normal use, Xbox Live and such

i have yet to do any hackin'

[carmine]

so you have seperate wires for all your connections (xbox, pc, laptop)?

[jerome9]

yeah, the router has 4 ports, one is PC, one is Xbox

the powerbook feeds off the wireless on the same router, every machine wireless or wired gets a 192.168.1.* IP

everything works dandy

[carmine]

xbox media player question for you fellow users. I cant see my samba shares running from my mac. I get my internet via airport and share my connection to my xbox. My info is:

Mac: 192.168.1.101
Xbox: 192.168.2.6

Herre are some console log stuff:

Samba name server MAC is now a local master browser for workgroup WORKGROUP on subnet 192.168.2.1

Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2002
[2003/07/30 20:16:00, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-26/source/smbd/service.c:make_connection(249)
myxbox (192.168.2.6) couldn't find service pictures
[2003/07/30 20:16:00, 0] /SourceCache/samba/samba-26/source/smbd/service.c:make_connection(249)


And my full config.xml file:

<configuration>

<media>

<map>C:,Harddisk0\Partition2</map>
<map>E:,Harddisk0\Partition1</map>
<map>F:,Harddisk0\Partition6</map>

<!-- Xbox partition table reference for mapping other drives -->

<!-- Note! Do not map the DVD-ROM above as it is auto mapped -->

<!-- 'C', "Harddisk0\Partition2" -->

<!-- 'E', "Harddisk0\Partition1" -->
<!-- 'F', "Harddisk0\Partition6" -->
<!-- 'X', "Harddisk0\Partition3" -->
<!-- 'Y', "Harddisk0\Partition4" -->
<!-- 'Z', "Harddisk0\Partition5" -->

<local>
<!-- remove the asterisks to set local ip address and gateway statically -->
<address>192.168.2.6</address>
<subnet>255.255.255.0</subnet>
<gateway>192.168.1.1</gateway>
<nameserver>192.168.1.101</nameserver>
<playlists>fapps\xbmp\playlists</playlists>
<timeserver>207.46.248.43</timeserver>
<thumbnails>fapps\xbmp\thumbs</thumbnails>
<bookmarks>fapps\xbmp\bookmarks</bookmarks>
<subtitles>fapps\xbmp\subtitles</subtitles>
<imdb>fapps\xbmp\imdb</imdb>
<home>fapps\xbmp</home>
</local>

<!-- specify as many shares as you like, note the format for each type of share -->
<!-- Note: XNS shares are created using RelaX, SMB shares are Windows shared folders -->
<!-- for each share you can specify the cache buffer size, note that this is optional -->
<!-- Note! For HDD shares make sure all folders exist on the Xbox in the right place -->
<music>
<visible>true</visible>
<share>
<name>Network (XBMSP)</name>
<url>xbmsp://192.168.1.2/mymusic</url>
<cachesize>256</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>Network (XNS)</name>
<url>cshared\music@192.168.1.2</url>
<cachesize>256</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>Network (SMB)</name>
<url>smb://usernameassword@workgroup/computer/share</url>
<cachesize>256</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>Mac (SMB)</name>
<url>smb://@WORKGROUP/Mac/Movies</url>
<cachesize>256</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>HDD</name>
<url>fMusic</url>
</share>
<share>
<name>Internet Radio (SHOUTcast)</name>
<url>fapps\xbmp\shoutcast</url>
<cachesize>256</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>Playlists</name>
<url>fapps\xbmp\playlists</url>
<cachesize>32</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>DVDROM (UDF)</name>
<url>d:</url>
</share>
<share>
<name>DVDROM (ISO9660)</name>
<url>iso9660:</url>
</share>
</music>

<pictures>
<visible>true</visible>
<share>
<name>Network (XBMSP)</name>
<url>xbmsp://192.168.1.2/pictures</url>
<cachesize>256</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>Network (XNS)</name>
<url>cshared\pictures@192.168.1.2</url>
<cachesize>256</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>Network (SMB)</name>
<url>smb://usernameassword@workgroup/computer/share</url>
<cachesize>256</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>SMB</name>
<url>smb://@WORKGROUP/Mac/Pictures</url>
<cachesize>256</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>HDD</name>
<url>fPictures</url>
</share>
<share>
<name>DVDROM (UDF)</name>
<url>d:</url>
</share>
<share>
<name>DVDROM (ISO9660)</name>
<url>iso9660:</url>
</share>
</pictures>

<videos>
<visible>true</visible>
<share>
<name>Network (XBMSP)</name>
<url>xbmsp://192.168.1.2/videos</url>
<cachesize>8192</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>Network (XNS)</name>
<url>cshared\videos@192.168.1.2</url>
<cachesize>8192</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>Network (SMB)</name>
<url>smb://usernameassword@workgroup/computer/share</url>
<cachesize>8192</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>Mac (SMB)</name>
<url>smb://@WORKGROUP/Mac/Movies</url>
<cachesize>8192</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>HDD</name>
<url>fVideo</url>
<cachesize>8192</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>Playlists</name>
<url>fapps\xbmp\playlists</url>
<cachesize>1024</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>DVDROM (UDF)</name>
<url>d:</url>
<cachesize>8192</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>DVDROM (ISO9660)</name>
<url>iso9660:</url>
<cachesize>8192</cachesize>
</share>
</videos>

<tvguide>
<visible>false</visible>
<autoprocess>true</autoprocess>
</tvguide>

<!-- only HDD app shares are supported -->
<apps>
<visible>true</visible>
<share>
<name>HDD</name>
<url>fapps\shortcuts</url>
</share>
</apps>

<!-- application bookmarks are optional -->
<applications>
<bookmark>
<name>Games</name>
<path>fgames</path>
</bookmark>
<bookmark>
<name>Emulators</name>
<path>femulators</path>
</bookmark>
<bookmark>
<name>Utilities</name>
<path>fapps\utils</path>
</bookmark>
<bookmark>
<name>Shortcuts</name>
<path>fapps\xbmp\shortcuts</path>
</bookmark>
</applications>

<extensions>
<music>ac3|aac|nfo|pls|rm|sc|mpa|wav|wma|ogg|mp3|m p2|m3u</music>
<videos>nfo|rm|m3u|ifo|mov|qt|divx|xvid|bivx|vob|p va|wmv|asf|asx|ogm|m2v|avi|bin|dat|mpg|mpeg|mkv|av c|vp3|svq3|nuv|viv|dv|fli</videos>
<pictures>png|jpg|jpeg|bmp|gif|ico|tif|tiff|tga|pc x</pictures>
</extensions>

<dashboard>evoxdash.xbe</dashboard>
<shutdowntime>0</shutdowntime>
<sensitivity>0.2</sensitivity>
<xnsbuffer>8192</xnsbuffer>

<!-- Set the resolution you want XBMP to run in -->
<!-- 1 - Use Xbox video settings to determing -->
<!-- 2 - NTSC 720x480 @ 4:3 -->
<!-- 3 - NTSC 720x480 @ 16:9 -->
<!-- 4 - PAL 720x576 @ 4:3 -->
<!-- 5 - PAL 720x576 @ 16:9 -->
<!-- 6 - HDTV 1280x720 @ 16:9 -->
<!-- 7 - HDTV 1920x1080 @ 16:9 -->
<resolution>1</resolution>

<!-- remove the asterisks from the language element to specify language otherwise -->
<!-- XBMP will try to autodetect it based on your dashboard settings -->
<language*>21</language*>

<subtitleencoding>UTF-8</subtitleencoding>
<!-- Type in right character encoding above for language font -->
<!-- Set bellow to true to use Media\common-font.ttf as UI font -->
<!-- Don't forget to copy the TTF truetype font to your Xbox -->
<usettfuifont>false</usettfuifont>

<!-- Screen saver setting in seconds (0=disable it) -->
<screensaver>0</screensaver>

<!-- snapstream server -->
<snapstreamserver>192.168.1.1</snapstreamserver>
<snapstreamuser>common</snapstreamuser>

<!-- prefill cache before start playing in % -->
<precache>10</precache>

<!-- timeout to wait for stream in seconds -->
<shoutcasttimeout>12</shoutcasttimeout>
<recordingpath>eapps\xbmp\recordings</recordingpath>
<!-- Make sure above folder exist on your Xbox harddrive -->

<scrollysuffix>|</scrollysuffix>

<!-- Enable to launch original Xbox games upon insert into DVD -->
<autolaunchxbox>false</autolaunchxbox>

<!-- Enable to auto-launch other app(xbe) upon DVD/CD insert -->
<!-- DVD Player.cut & CD Player must be configured correctly -->
<autolaunchdvd>false</autolaunchdvd>
<autolaunchcdda>false</autolaunchcdda>

<!- Set to false to remove the IP/Disk Space/Build Info on Main Screen -->
<showdebug>true</showdebug>

</media>

</configuration>