Streaming Media from Ubuntu to a Xbox 360

You Can Stream Video to the Xbox 360 with a PC, Why Can’t you with Linux?

Erm, You can.

When Microsoft decided to add Windows Media Center features on their Xbox 360, they didnt create their own protocol to do the job. Instead they used a set of network protocols called UPnP; Universal Plug And Play. Note the word “Universal”. For this reason it is possible to stream music, pictures and video off a UPnP Media Server using a Linux distro. On this page, we’ll be focusing on setting up a Media Server on Ubuntu 9.04. (update: should work for Ubunu 9.10 as well)

So.

There are many programs available for Ubuntu that can set up UPnP media server, such as MediaTomb (works nicely for PS3 also), some use Amarok, but in this guide, we’ll be using something called uShare.

1. Install uShare on your Ubuntu System. Open up terminal, and type in this command

sudo apt-get install ushare

2. Now configure your uShare Media Server by typing

sudo dpkg-reconfigure ushare

This configuring process will include creating a name for the server, which port you want it connected in and some other extra stuff. If you’ve got the Xbox connected through you’re ethernet port, set the port as etho0, if you’ve got a wireless adapter on the 360, set the port as wlan0.

My setup looks sorta like this:

USHARE_NAME=Inz Linux
USHARE_IFACE=wlan0  /*(the name of which ethernet adapter you’ll send the data over)*/
USHARE_PORT=49153
USHARE_TELNET_PORT=1337
USHARE_DIR=/home/inz/music
USHARE_OVERRIDE_ICONV_ERR=yes
ENABLE_WEB=no
USHARE_ENABLE_XBOX=yes  /*(the USHARE_ is missing in the file you need to add it)*/
ENABLE_DLNA=no

4. Now to start uShare, you’ve got to do it from terminal. Its a simple command, and not hard to remember.

ushare -x

The -x is for the xbox compatibile mode, so when you boot up you’re xbox you’ll find it.

5. Boot up the Xbox 360, go to any of your librarys (Music, Video, Pictures.. doesnt matter which) and you will be asked to select a source from where your stuff is kept. Select what you put down for the “USHARE_NAME”. Your media server should come up where the “Connect Your Windows-Based PC” usually is. Except we’re not using a windows-based pc.

Happy Streaming!

Note: This guide should work for all you PS3 users out there too

Bottle tops; The better product for selling for Young Enterprise.

Jong Ondernemen at the BSN was a fail pretty much to sum it all up. I came across this product on the web today, and it looks lot better,looks more useful and probably doesn’t break that easily than our previous product: shitty wind up charger mobile phones that in fact on average only worked on 15% of all phones that our consumers owned. Obviously it didn’t end up too well and we barely got out with a profit.

This product looks amazing, tbh I would never have thought of something like this before…ever. The invention was clever too, the amount I times I’ve wanted to keeps a drink in a can for later, but couldn’t because there was no method of keepng it airtightnso the soda wouldn’t go flat. Well there is now and I say get one before it’s too late.

Linux distro timeline

Seeing that I am now newly converted ubuntu user, I came across this on one of their forums..

check it out!

Linux Distro Timeline

The Vandalism Page Goes On

weheyyy!

Tetris 25th Birthday!

Tetris was first created on June 6 1984, while working at the Acedemy of Science of the USSRy in Moscow. Basicly, the guy was a commie. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix “tetra-” – as all of the games pieces contain four segments. There’s some history for you there. It was hugely successful for the original Game Boy (the really old one, that was only featured in grey) in 1989. As well as that, its the 2nd best Video Game of All time according to IGN, and has sold over 70m copies worldwide.

Air France Plane ’sent 24 error messages’

The Air France plane that was reported missing in the Atlantic Ocean, sent 24 error messages according to the French Investigators who are still trying to figure out what had happened to the plane. The plane was lost somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic, and suddenly dissapeared off nearby ATC’s. There was also no evidence of the plane going through torrential storms.

oh dayum. The French are still looking for the plane, and the “presumed” dead passengers using their military’s submarines and probably that mother of a aircraft carrier that they call Charles de Gaulle

BBC NEWS | Americas | Plane ’sent 24 error messages’.

I just drilled a hole in my wall

If you ever need somebody to drill a hole in the wall for you, don’t ask me. I bent the drill bit, singed my finger on the extremely hot drill bit, and managed to drill a hole, too big for the screw -__-

Robot Comes up to Collect Your Garbage ;)

Robots in Italy have been introduced to collect rubbish from people’s homes in rural areas since big dump trucks and lorries cant go throught the narrow streets. The robot is still in its prototype stages, and is called the DustBot. The creators of this, will be taking the robot to Japan and unveil it to those yes-i-would-fuck-a-robot type people.

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WP.com now aquired by Automattic

Automattic finall has aquired the domain http://wp.com from their friends at Yahoo!  Automattic have been desiring this site for a number of years now and they’ve finally managed it!

“WP.com seemed like a great fit: people’s attention spans are getting shorter every day.  Wow the weather is great in San Francisco today. Also it’s seven keystrokes shorter to type in, which multiplied by the hundreds of millions of times people visit the site every year will be a huge productivity boost to our troubled economy and prevent RSI in a large percentage of the population.”