Comments on: XBox + Windows Media Connect http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/blah-blah/117 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:22:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: Tat3r http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/blah-blah/117#comment-260 Tat3r Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:46:14 +0000 http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/blahblah/117#comment-260 Any chance of releasing the source code for your SSDP proxy application/service?, preferably in C language if possible. I would love to be able to port it to Linux, UNIX or BSD. Be very cool if could run it on a other little server or device that is running all the time, I for example have FreeNAS (which is based on FreeBSD) running on a VIA MiniITX computer that I have a couple of large harddrives in for audio and video streaming that is on 24/7. A few friends of mine who also use XBMC run Linux based firewalls/routers at home which is running 24/7 anyway so those be great to have a SSDP proxy deamon installed on. Todat also many retail routers from LinkSys and D-Link run some kind of Linux or other operating system for which you can compile your own small apps and run on as well. Any chance of releasing the source code for your SSDP proxy application/service?, preferably in C language if possible. I would love to be able to port it to Linux, UNIX or BSD. Be very cool if could run it on a other little server or device that is running all the time, I for example have FreeNAS (which is based on FreeBSD) running on a VIA MiniITX computer that I have a couple of large harddrives in for audio and video streaming that is on 24/7. A few friends of mine who also use XBMC run Linux based firewalls/routers at home which is running 24/7 anyway so those be great to have a SSDP proxy deamon installed on. Todat also many retail routers from LinkSys and D-Link run some kind of Linux or other operating system for which you can compile your own small apps and run on as well.

]]> By: XBMCfanboy http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/blah-blah/117#comment-259 XBMCfanboy Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:28:38 +0000 http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/blahblah/117#comment-259 the XBMS (Xbox Media Stream Protocol) client in XBMC supports auto-discovery of XBMS servers (a.k.a. ccXStream, a.k.a. XStream Servers) by using broadcast, (kind of like a DHCP server and client works). I think it works like this; the XBMS servers is constantly listening to a specific network port, when the user clicks the share in XBMS the client (built-into XBMC) sends out a broadcast on the network on that same port asking "are there any XBMS servers out there?", all and any XBMS servers then reply "yes you can find me on IP-address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" and so the client recieved that and saves/caches that IP-address for that session. It can also work the other way around; meaning that the XBMS server is broadcasting on a specific port for example once every second saying "I'm an XBMS server and you can find me on IP-address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx" but that is not very smart as you are then kind of spamming the network and it is also a security risc. More info on the XBMS protocol can be found in the CVS source code (for the client-side) and here on the server-side source code: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/xbmc/ccxstream-1.0.15.tar.gz http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/xbmc/ccxstream-1.0.15-win.rar http://sourceforge.net/projects/mfxstream http://sourceforge.net/projects/pxbmsps the XBMS (Xbox Media Stream Protocol) client in XBMC supports auto-discovery of XBMS servers (a.k.a. ccXStream, a.k.a. XStream Servers) by using broadcast, (kind of like a DHCP server and client works).

I think it works like this; the XBMS servers is constantly listening to a specific network port, when the user clicks the share in XBMS the client (built-into XBMC) sends out a broadcast on the network on that same port asking “are there any XBMS servers out there?”, all and any XBMS servers then reply “yes you can find me on IP-address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx” and so the client recieved that and saves/caches that IP-address for that session.

It can also work the other way around; meaning that the XBMS server is broadcasting on a specific port for example once every second saying “I’m an XBMS server and you can find me on IP-address xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx” but that is not very smart as you are then kind of spamming the network and it is also a security risc.

More info on the XBMS protocol can be found in the CVS source code (for the client-side) and here on the server-side source code:
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/xbmc/ccxstream-1.0.15.tar.gz
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/xbmc/ccxstream-1.0.15-win.rar
http://sourceforge.net/projects/mfxstream
http://sourceforge.net/projects/pxbmsps

]]> By: XBMCfanboy http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/blah-blah/117#comment-256 XBMCfanboy Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:07:21 +0000 http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/blahblah/117#comment-256 SWEET! Any chance of a matching UPnP server for Media Portal too? ;-) http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.pl?act=ST;f=4;t=4997 http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=3053 http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=5828 http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=8044 PS! Could broadcast be used for some sort of auto-discovery like XBMSP? SWEET! Any chance of a matching UPnP server for Media Portal too? ;-)
http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.pl?act=ST;f=4;t=4997
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=3053
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=5828
http://forum.team-mediaportal.com/viewtopic.php?t=8044

PS! Could broadcast be used for some sort of auto-discovery like XBMSP?

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