Comments on: Xbox+UPnP patch http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/blah-blah/120 Wed, 19 Nov 2008 04:22:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: XBMCfanboy http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/blah-blah/120#comment-258 XBMCfanboy Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:27:47 +0000 http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/blahblah/120#comment-258 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/120#comment-257 XBMCfanboy Mon, 03 Jul 2006 08:08:45 +0000 http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/blahblah/120#comment-257 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?

]]> By: elupus http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/blah-blah/120#comment-255 elupus Sun, 02 Jul 2006 22:48:51 +0000 http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/blahblah/120#comment-255 hmm.. can't get it to work.. log level settings doesn't seem to have any affect, and it throws an exception in the debug build during ctrl point start hmm.. can’t get it to work.. log level settings doesn’t seem to have any affect, and it throws an exception in the debug build during ctrl point start

]]> By: elupus http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/blah-blah/120#comment-254 elupus Sun, 02 Jul 2006 19:27:10 +0000 http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/blahblah/120#comment-254 just a though.. how about moving the ssdp proxy to broadcast instead? that way you wouldn't need to specify ip address of the proxy. i suppose that would require more work on the client side. but it's an idea just a though.. how about moving the ssdp proxy to broadcast instead? that way you wouldn’t need to specify ip address of the proxy. i suppose that would require more work on the client side. but it’s an idea

]]> By: spiff http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/blah-blah/120#comment-253 spiff Sun, 02 Jul 2006 14:47:16 +0000 http://www.plutinosoft.com/blog/category/blahblah/120#comment-253 added to cvs :) added to cvs :)

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