Re: [gmediaserver-devel] Xbox 360 failure report

[Tommy Winther]

Thanks, very helpful!
I tried to find the intel tool though, but I only found some windows tools on this page
http://www.intel.com/cd/ids/developer/asmo-na/eng/downloads/upnp/overview/index.htm
and I couldn't really get them to work. I didn't try for more than 5 mins though.

Anyway, I spent some more time on the code and did some basic search functionality.
So currently I'm able to browse the albums and artists as well as the songs view on the xbox.
That's 3 of the 5 main categories. Albums and artists have different branches and not all works yet,
but the basic flow: artist -> album -> songs browsing doesn't work as well as playback.

please note..
- I'm rather new to c, so the code is not pretty
- indentation is a mess on the stuff I added
- it probably also leeks memory and various other uhealthy stuff.
oh and feel free to give me pointers on where i did bad stuff :)

diff against 0.9.0 is attached as usual.

btw things to keep in mind
- if the code seg faults while the xbox is performing a search the xbox will "lose" the connection even if you restart gmediaserver.
the solution is to reboot the xbox or "disconnect" the pc through the xbox options menu and reconnect.
- sometimes the xbox refuses to play the music, eventhough it sees it. a red "access denied" sign is display next to each music track.
a reboot usually cures this as well.


Br.
Tommy


søn, 08 01 2006 kl. 18:44 -0600, skrev falz:
> I've documented all of what Windows Media Connects reports all of
> these as. Every category has a "Parent ID" declared. The root objects
> (Music, Pictures, etc) this is 0. For the others, it's the "Object ID"
> of its parents. Here's the full list:
>
> COMPUTERNAME : 1 : Windows Media Connect
>
> Music 		Object ID = 1
> 	Album		Object ID = 7
> 	All Music	Object ID = 4
> 	Artist		Object ID = 6
> 	Folders		Object ID = 14
> 	Genre		Object ID = 5
> 	Playlist	Object ID = F
> 	
>
> Pictures	Object ID = 3
> 	Album		Object ID = D
> 	All Pictures	Object ID = B
> 	Date Taken	Object ID = C
> 	Folders		Object ID = 16
> 	Playlist	Object ID = 11
>
>
> Playlists	Object ID = 12
> 	All Playlists	Object ID = 13
> 	Folders		Object ID = 17
>
> Video		Object ID = 2
> 	Actor		Object ID = A
> 	Album		Object ID = E
> 	All Video	Object ID = 8
> 	Folders		Object ID = 15
> 	Genre		Object ID = 9
> 	Playlist	Object ID = 10
>
> If you are using a fixed font, this will look better. It's also in a
> txt file attached. Intel's debug thing called "Intel AV Media
> Controller for UPnP Technologies" shows all of this info, and is
> probably easier than parsing XML files or decoding tcpdumps and such.
>
> --falz
>
>
> On 1/8/06, Tommy Winther <address@hidden> wrote:
> >  Yes, twonky does the same.
> >  >From what I can gather from tcpdump, etc. twonky only provides that
> > modelName when the description.xml is requrested with a User-Agent
> > containing xbox (or similiar).
> >
> >  I've gotten a little further and have the xbox actually playing mp3's now.
> > Only the songs root category works thought.
> >  I've attached a new diff, It's all a hack though and probably all of the
> > changes I made are not required.
> >
> >  I can send you a tcpdump of twonky's communication if you'd like.
> >
> >  In the next couple of days I'll try to document as much as possible, fx it
> > seems the xbox always uses a specific containerID when requesting each of
> > the 5 root categories - Albums (ID=7), Artist (ID=6), Saved Playlists
> > (ID=F), Songs (ID=4), Genres (ID=5). This doesn't match too good with how
> > gmediaserver does it as far as i can tell, hence the hack with always
> > settings containerID to 0.
> >  There's also the options to "Play all" in each category, but that crashes
> > the xbox :)
> >
> >  Br.
> >  Tommy
> >
> >
> >
> >  søn, 08 01 2006 kl. 21:20 +0100, skrev Oskar Liljeblad:
> >  On Friday, January 06, 2006 at 20:47, Tommy Winther wrote:
> > > 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"
> >
> > Hmm, interesting. Nice work. But someone said twonkyvision worked with
> > the 360 - does it to all the above too? I don't like the idea of
> > setting modelName to something that contains 'Windows'...
> >
> > Regards,
> >
> > Oskar
> >
> >
> >
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