> Hi all. > > Im pretty new to the whole OpenSolaris thing, i've > been doing a bit of research but cant find anything > on what i need. > > I am thinking of making myself a home file server > running OpenSolaris with ZFS and utilizing Raid/Z > > I was wondering if there is anything i can get that > will allow Windows Media Center based hardware (HTPC > or XBOX 360) to stream from my new fileserver? > > Any help is appreciated and remember.... im new :) > > Message was edited by: cloudz
If whatever you are streaming to will read CIFS (or NFS) shares, you're golden. Getting set up is literally one command. If you are looking for uPnP streaming, the easiest (an only thing I ever got to work) solution out there is PS3mediaserver. It says it has Xbox360 support. It depends on mplayer and ffmpeg which are both available in the blastwave community repository (or you can try building them from source if you want.) There are a couple howto's on getting TwonkyMedia and MediaTomb running under Solaris if you google for them. I never could get either one to compile, but I haven't tried it in quite some time. I've heard of people running uPnP servers from linux branded zones as well, so that might be an option for you. I have no experience whatsoever with that, so I can't tell you much else about it. Personally, I gave up on trying to stream to my PS3. That is mainly because I don't have ethernet run to it, and trying to stream any media over wireless-g, especially the HD stuff, is frustrating to say the least. I dropped $100 on an xtreamer media player, and it's great. Plays any format/container I can throw at it. Works real well for me. Good luck! Eric -- This message posted from opensolaris.org _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
