Re: [gmediaserver-devel] Xbox 360 failure report

[Tommy Winther]

I've also been experimenting with gmediaserver and Xbox 360.
It seems the xbox needs a couple specific values before it will communicate with the media server.

- The modelName tag in src/schemas/MediaServer.xml.in must be "Windows Media Connect"
- The friendlyName (specified with --friendly-name) must be appended with ": 1 : Windows Media Connect", eg
"whatever : 1 : Windows Media Connect"

When it connects it make a couple calls for the service:
urn:microsoft.com:serviceId:X_MS_MediaReceiverRegistrar
Namely IsAuthorized and IsValidated. Might be DRM related.

I've attached a quick patch for gmediaserver-0.9.0 that will allow it to talk with the xbox.
There's a simple MediaReceiverRegistrar implementation in mediarecreg.c that simply returns 1 as result.

Although after the initial "attachment" process between the media server and the xbox nothing is display and I get the attached output from gmediaserver.

I tried commenting out the if statement below the comment /* SortCriteria not supported at the moment */ around line 550 in contentdir.c but it didn't change much. Still nothing on the xbox.

btw I run gmediaserver like this..
./gmediaserver -v4 -iwlan0 --friendly-name="test : 1 : Windows Media Connect" /tmp

Br.
Tommy

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