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Serving My Media to other devices?
DNLA Server? I love using Boxee as an interface to turn my computer into a proper device that should be connected to my entertainment center (i.e. TV & Surround Sound system), but how about serving up the media it's managing to other devices? Support for streaming to the Xbox360 (which is some kind of adaptation of UPnP), _AND_ support for streaming to the Playstation3 (which is via DLNA) would be amazing.
Currently, I'm planning to use a combination of Boxee for the widescreen monitor I have connected to my PC, while simultaneously running TwonkyMediaServer to serve up my content to my Xbox360 and/or PS3 ( http://www.twonkymedia.com/index.html ); but there is some redundancy in this solution. I would love to tag and categorize all my music through Boxee's interface, and browse the database it would create and/or update from these other devices. Instead I'll have two separate systems crawling directories for whenever I add new content, and two different systems managing databases of my music, pictures, and videos - completely independent of one another...
Currently, I'm planning to use a combination of Boxee for the widescreen monitor I have connected to my PC, while simultaneously running TwonkyMediaServer to serve up my content to my Xbox360 and/or PS3 ( http://www.twonkymedia.com/index.html ); but there is some redundancy in this solution. I would love to tag and categorize all my music through Boxee's interface, and browse the database it would create and/or update from these other devices. Instead I'll have two separate systems crawling directories for whenever I add new content, and two different systems managing databases of my music, pictures, and videos - completely independent of one another...
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Inappropriate?I think that would be a really great idea too, DLNA seems to be picking up and more and more devices now support it. I saw that XMBC is already supporting it, so it shouldn't be that hard to implement...
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Inappropriate?I'm all for one media hub, let's bring it together and make Boxee our one complete solution
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Inappropriate?I'm currently using playon from http://www.themediamall.com/playon for serving up HULU to my tv via the xbox 360. But Boxee's feature look ohhh so tasty. Do support dnla devices like the 360. I promise ya, you would win over a slew of fans!
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Inappropriate?It would be great to see a centralized, open source media library backend that all of our media front ends could talk to (Boxee, XBMC, iTunes, TiVo -- yes, i'm dreaming). That way, the information is stored just once, and updated in one location. A Media Manager GUI for the media library would be a great touch as well, to fix any mis-matches that may occur. The media library could even be setup as a service. IE: Boxee sends a request for all Tv Shows in the library, and wants them formatted as separate NFO files, TiVo sends the same request but wants TiVo specific files.
