Another Reason I Love Linux

[Lennart Sorensen]

On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 09:08:25PM -0500, Tyler Aviss wrote:
> Long ago, one of the reasons I'd bough a 360 is that I'd seen the
> versatility of "XBox Linux" on my friends old (original gen) Xbox, and
> heard that the 360 had a built-in media-centre capable of doing
> similar things. I was extremely disappointed to discover that not only
> did it require a "windows media center edition" install running to
> serve up and/or transcode the files (cannot connect to normal
> shares/samba and stream), but it was somewhat limited in which codecs
> it supported. Yet again a lame attempt to tie their platforms
> together.

Our xbox 260 has no problem connecting to the mythtv box's UPnP interface
and playing video files.  It's not the media center interface, but it
works fine.

If you try and play xvid files it will even ask you if it is allowed to
go download a codec library from microsoft to support more video formats.

> Now despite the whole pushing blu-ray on PS3, it seems that it is a
> big win as the overall "open" and flexible platform. Imagine my
> surprise that a company known for such things as "memory stick pro"
> and UMD's makes such an open system. Congrats to the Sony PS3 team,
> and keep up the good work. If they keep it up in the next-gen
> consoles, I know who'll be getting my next console purchase.
> 
> Don't you wish that there was a way to express to these companies just
> WHY their products are better, and support such things?

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