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Streaming flac files in iTunes (via fluke) to an Xbox 360. On a Mac.

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So, I have a hackintosh, and I'm getting a 360, and I was wondering if it's possible to stream music (and videos?) to the 360 via wireless. I've got a Linksys router I'm going to flash to DD-WRT and put in bridge mode for that.

Anyway, I'm in the process of ripping my CDs, and I'd like to stay with .flac. Fluke will allow me to play these in iTunes, so that's not a problem, but can I stream these to the Xbox? I've googled around, but most of the articles are older and talk about the "upcoming" dashboard upgrade which allows new codecs.

So what codecs -- for both music and video -- are supported for streaming from a Mac to a 360? And does anyone have any experience doing this wirelessly? I assume music works, but what can I expect in terms of video? Acceptable performance?

I'm excited to use this as a stopgap until I build my HTPC (Hackintosh + Plex!) but I'm not so sure what's going on on the software side.

Thanks so much for any information!
 
My little brother streams movies from his MacBook to his 360 using connect360 with great results. I was extremely impressed, was just like watching a DVD on his HDTV. Really reliable, smooth video and no hiccups.

Unfortunately I can't really offer much advice other than that connect360 works flawlessy for him and probably worth a look. No idea whether FLAC will work, doesn't look like its officially supported. Its supported codecs are AAC, Apple Lossless, WMA, MP3, WAV, AIFF, H.264, DIVX, XVID, MOV, AVI, WMV, ASF, JPEG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, BMP, RAW.

Costs $20 but aparently worth the money.

 
Yea.. Connect360 to Xbox360 does work well, under one condition. You don't have any encoded videos that are over 2000Kb/s. If they're a higher bitrate than that you will have trouble streaming them wirelessly.. well, at least I did. Anything 2000 and below worked beautifully, but for some reason the Xbox doesn't like anything higher than that, in my case.

Good luck.. I've been messing with the newer Plex developer builds, and it truly is a great app. I'm loving it!
 
Okay, I got my Xbox 360 up and running, using a Linksys router in bridge mode. I installed Connect360, and tried to share, and the Xbox didn't detect my system, nor did my system detect the Xbox. As it stands, my Hack is connected via ethernet to my Internet router. The Linksys bridge (router) is connected to the Xbox, and obviously connected to the Internet router. So theoretically, they should be on the "same" network. Any ideas why this wouldn't be working?
 
If you go into the Xbox's System Networking Tab, is it on the same IP range as your Hack? Also, when you turn on the Xbox, go into your Hack and open Connect360 and see if it sees the 360 there. Sounds like it's just a NAT issue with the two networks. So check to make sure your NAT is open in the Networking page in the Xbox as well.
 
Originally posted by: Kmax82
If you go into the Xbox's System Networking Tab, is it on the same IP range as your Hack? Also, when you turn on the Xbox, go into your Hack and open Connect360 and see if it sees the 360 there. Sounds like it's just a NAT issue with the two networks. So check to make sure your NAT is open in the Networking page in the Xbox as well.
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Ugh. I'm up to my ears in IP addresses. So I used the instructions to set up the router as a bridge for Xbox from here.

So here's the dotted decimal soup we've got:

Internet Router (D-link):

IP: 192.168.1.1
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
DNS: Whatever the Time Warner DNS servers are

Xbox (When allowed to configure manually):
IP: 192.168.2.100
Subnet: 255.255.248.0
Gateway: 192.168.2.2
DNS: 192.168.1.1, DNS #1 from Time Warner

Linksys Router (Bridge):
WAN Connection -
IP: 192.168.1.2
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
DNS: 192.168.1.1, DNS #1 from Time Warner

Linksys Router
"Router IP" (Not sure what they mean by this)
Local IP: 192.168.2.2
Subnet: 255.255.248.0
Gateway: 192.168.2.2
Local DNS: 192.168.1.1

Hackintosh (connected via ethernet to the D-Link)
IP: 192.168.1.69 (static)
Subnet: 255.255.255.0
Gateway: 192.168.1.1
DNS: From Time Warner

Both routers are on the same SSID, and the Linksys is configured to Client mode (NOT client bridge mode).

Now, when I connect my Powerbook via ethernet to the Linksys, Connect360 detects fine. I also note that the Ethernet gets a DHCP IP of 192.168.2.100. Which, as you mentioned, leads me to believe that the problem is my hack is on a different network range (the airport in my Powerbook gets a 192.168.1.100+ IP)

Phew. Okay, so the question is: Is this doable? Can I configure the Linksys differently so it'll play nice with the networks? It's confusing having THREE different IPs -- the Xbox's IP, the router's WAN IP, and the router's local (client?) IP -- for what is theoretically supposed to be one unit (the Xbox). A subquestion is, one of these should probably be in the DMZ of my D-link router. Which one? And do I need to open ports on the Linksys as well (or put itself in its DMZ? Is that even possible?). I ask this because I think the Xbox live test worked, but it told me I had "moderate" NAT. The Dlink router is Xbox approved, and I enabled "game" mode on it, which fixed the ICMP problems I was having. But that has nothing -- I think -- to do with Connect360 working.

The Linksys is configured in the only way I could get it to work, and again, I just followed those directions. Does anyone have any ideas?

Thanks SO much...I would be so happy if I could stream music from my hack to my downstairs home theater.


 
Sorry been a bit busy around the house.

From what little I know about networking. The Xbox and the computer that you want to connect to the Xbox has to be on the same range of IP addresses. I got this to work by installing DDWRT firmware on my Linksys WRT54G, then used DNS forwarding to extend the range of my Airport Extreme. This worked pretty easily, but that's the full extent of my knowledge. I have no idea why it works.. lol.. 😀

I would definitely post the above in the networking forum and they should be able to give you much more information.
 
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