Connect my 360 to an application

Question

Is there a way (using .net) to connect an application i write to the 360? What I want to do is write a custom media sharing application, and have the contents stream to an xbox.

I see that there is an application for the mac called Connect360 that does this, so there must be a way, right?

Answer 1

XBMC which uses the Platinum UPnP library , had Xbox 360 support at one point . Not sure if it still does. However, both are open source and under revision control, so the source code should give you a good idea of how to implement UPnP support in your application.

Answer 2

Write a DLNA server . There's a media sharing server for linux that you can look into for an idea on how the protocols work, but I don't remember what it's called.

Answer 3

Connect360 emulates Windows Media Server. All the 360 is doing is connecting to a Windows Media Server like it would normally (or so it thinks).

Answer 4

I think in XNA there is a object that can be used for sockets. You'll probably need to utilize the socket object to connect back to your PC.

Answer 5

Assuming you want to use the media player built into the Xbox 360, i think you will need to look into media streaming standards and what one's the 360 recognizes (i'm not sure myself).

You may also be interested in TVersity which handles a wide range of streaming capabilities.