Xbox+UPnP patch
June 29th, 2006 1:27 am

Here’s the way to add UPnP to Xbox:

- Download UPnPDirectory.rar and extract in xbmc\FileSystem

- Download libUPnP.rar and extract in docs\libUPnP

- Open libUPnP\libPlatinum.sln and compile both in Debug & Release

- run libUPnP\MakeLibPlatinum.bat (this will copy the proper header files and libs to xbmc\lib\libUPnP

- Download patch and apply to xbmc code

- Download SsdpProxy.exe and run it on your host, if somehow the default port (1901) is in used, you can specify a different port in the command line. (This is Win32 only for now. The linux version is coming soon…)
- Edit the XBMC UserData/Sources.xml and put your host IP in upnp://host/ (If you specified a different port with SsdpProxy, specify it here in upnp://host:port/)

- Run Windows Media Connect on your host

- Compile XBMC, Run & Enjoy

Update: If you have a standalone UPnP Media Server, most likely you won’t need the SsdpProxy. Just specify the ip address of the device in place of the host.

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spiff
July 2nd, 2006 6:47 am

added to cvs :)

elupus
July 2nd, 2006 11:27 am

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

elupus
July 2nd, 2006 2:48 pm

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

XBMCfanboy
July 3rd, 2006 12:08 am

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?

XBMCfanboy
July 3rd, 2006 12:27 am

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

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