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I'm using Xbox Media Center, and it's great! Am I missing something here, though? I don't see the content of the article..
Click the hyperlink in the article in the last sentence. That takes you to the author's web site which again just tells you he did it. The trick is to notice the links in the upper left corner of the screen which lead you through his steps in the process.
Oops, make that the link in the penultimate sentence (next to the last) in the article. Sorry, the Post a Comment page does not include easy visibility of previous posts so rather than go through the necessary contortions I tried to guess and missed. It isn't possible to edit your own comments after they've been posted? (Yes, I know and use the Preview feature, but it isn't sufficient).
I posted a how-to guide in my local Mac (Hong Kong) forum last year.
http://mac.hk/appletalk/viewtopic.php?p=65262#65262
http://mac.hk/appletalk/viewtopic.php?p=65262#65262
Duh!
There goes another one… ^_-
No need to install Sharepoints at all (even for sharing folders out of your home folder). Stick to Apple's solution and you'll save yourself problems. All explained here: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=222010&st=30#entry3522561
There goes another one… ^_-
No need to install Sharepoints at all (even for sharing folders out of your home folder). Stick to Apple's solution and you'll save yourself problems. All explained here: http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=222010&st=30#entry3522561
I didn't need to use my Windows box, either. My route was similar: I bought three XBoxes used from gamestop, as well as three eXecuter chips with the Cromwell BIOS. At the time I didn't know a thing about XBMC and didn't plan on using the XBox for anything as silly as playing games; instead I planned to install Xebian Linux and use the XBox only as a front-end for MythTV.
I didn't get the fancy, solderless connector for my chips, though, and thought I solder them on. I completely borked the job, and went the softmod route just to flash the built-in BIOS with Cromwell. Later, though, I learned about XBMC and figured out how to flash the original BIOS back in, and re-applied the softmod. I finally got the right, thin circuit board wire and did chip my third XBox. So, I have two soft-modded boxes and a chipped box.
As I went along, I upgraded all of the hard drives with some small spares I had lying around -- one each of 20, 30, and 40 GB. There's an auto-installer that builds the disks for you without having to connect a drive to the PC.
Throughout all of this process, I don't give a crap about XBox live. That's important because MS doesn't like modded boxes.
In the meantime, I discovered how fun video games can be, and the XBox makes a great emulator base for all of the classics -- Atari 2600, SNES, Play Station, and so on!
I may try Xebian again -- it can be installed non-natively and run from an image on the hard drive.
Sharepoints isn't necessary, and neither are all of the symbolic links. It's easy to modify your smb.conf file to get the sharing that you want done. Heck, install Sharepoints, look at your smb.conf, and uninstall Sharepoints. Done!
Rather than share off the Macs, I just share off of the backend for MythTV now. I'm upgrading the backend next week, so here's what I'll have:
two XBoxes around the house (third is reserved)
two RAID1 setups with 600GB of space for DVD rips and archived TV shows, AND this is where I'll make my home folders for the two Macs. No more syncronization!!! No more backups!!! (Yeah, both drives could fail simultaneously.. crossing fingers)
The RAID'ed drives will also house iTunes and iPhoto libraries which work well enough with XBMC.
Fifth drive dedicated just to MythTV (I use KnoppMyth).
The XBoxMythTV program for modded XBoxes works pretty decently with the backend system.
There's also the MythTV frontend compiled for PowerPC and Intel Macs.
Anyone want to buy my old Sony Tivo Series 1?
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--Jim (me)
I didn't get the fancy, solderless connector for my chips, though, and thought I solder them on. I completely borked the job, and went the softmod route just to flash the built-in BIOS with Cromwell. Later, though, I learned about XBMC and figured out how to flash the original BIOS back in, and re-applied the softmod. I finally got the right, thin circuit board wire and did chip my third XBox. So, I have two soft-modded boxes and a chipped box.
As I went along, I upgraded all of the hard drives with some small spares I had lying around -- one each of 20, 30, and 40 GB. There's an auto-installer that builds the disks for you without having to connect a drive to the PC.
Throughout all of this process, I don't give a crap about XBox live. That's important because MS doesn't like modded boxes.
In the meantime, I discovered how fun video games can be, and the XBox makes a great emulator base for all of the classics -- Atari 2600, SNES, Play Station, and so on!
I may try Xebian again -- it can be installed non-natively and run from an image on the hard drive.
Sharepoints isn't necessary, and neither are all of the symbolic links. It's easy to modify your smb.conf file to get the sharing that you want done. Heck, install Sharepoints, look at your smb.conf, and uninstall Sharepoints. Done!
Rather than share off the Macs, I just share off of the backend for MythTV now. I'm upgrading the backend next week, so here's what I'll have:
two XBoxes around the house (third is reserved)
two RAID1 setups with 600GB of space for DVD rips and archived TV shows, AND this is where I'll make my home folders for the two Macs. No more syncronization!!! No more backups!!! (Yeah, both drives could fail simultaneously.. crossing fingers)
The RAID'ed drives will also house iTunes and iPhoto libraries which work well enough with XBMC.
Fifth drive dedicated just to MythTV (I use KnoppMyth).
The XBoxMythTV program for modded XBoxes works pretty decently with the backend system.
There's also the MythTV frontend compiled for PowerPC and Intel Macs.
Anyone want to buy my old Sony Tivo Series 1?
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--Jim (me)
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Setting Up a Mac as a Media Server
After you have your media server Mac with Mac OS X, iTunes, and iPhoto installed), load up the media. Create your iPhoto albums and your iTunes playlists. Then configure sharing of your iPhoto and iTunes libraries.
If you will be sharing video directly from a folder, you need to configure personal file sharing. Use the Sharing pane in System Preferences to turn on personal file sharing. By default, your home folder will be shared, but other users will have access only to the Public folder inside it. Snapndrag pro 4 4 pro. For ease of use, create a folder inside the Public folder and place your video files inside it, organizing them with subfolders in whatever manner you choose.
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If you are using a Mac with multiple hard drives, you might want to consider ways to maximize the space for digital content. Because iTunes and iPhoto libraries cannot span multiple disks, and because only the Public folder of your home folder can be easily shared for non-iTunes video files, you might want to consider configuring a disk spanning or striping RAID solution that makes all the hard drives attached to your Mac appear and behave as a single hard drive. You can do this by using Disk Utility when installing Mac OS X. Additional information on RAID solutions under Mac OS X can be found here and here.
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For a less-technical solution, simply configure iTunes and iPhoto to store their libraries in folders on nonstartup hard drives. You can also use the Customize option to install only the Mac OS X components that you need for your media server. For example, removing localized language files, printer drivers, and typically installed Apple applications can slim your Mac OS X install down by as much as 2GB or more.
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The final step is to configure the computer to not sleep using the Energy Save pane of System Preferences and that you ensure autologin of the user account you created during installation is enabled in the Accounts pane of System Prefrences(as it is by default), and to configure iTunes and iPhoto to launch as login items. If the Mac supports automatic restart after a power failure (an option in the Energy Saver pane of System Preferences), you can enable that feature. These measures ensure that the computer will always be ready to serve up access to your digital content.
After you have the server set up, you need to connect client computers to it. As described earlier, this is very simple to do for iPhoto and iTunes access. Mounting the shared folder for video can also be easy. Simply browse the Network globe in the Finder for the appropriate computer and connect. Then place an alias of the shared folder in the Movies folder of each user/computer that will access the media server.
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