Yep the modded XBox thing is ok with XBMC. Went to the 360, Windows 7 or Media Share on my older computers. With the downloadable codec support for the 360 and no modding required, never looked back. Streams great.

I was REALLY lazy and just went to GMODZ here in Toronto, got them to put in a new 750 gb hard drive and a hardware mod. and when they installed the drive, they put on XBMC and some other goodies.  currently backing lots of games to it, and going to use it in one of my candy cabs.  Never really considered putting other stuff on it, but i guess 750 gigs can hold a LOT of tv and movies, maybe i'll get another one done up for when i go on vacation to my Mom's...

Quoted from necro_nemesis

Yep the modded XBox thing is ok with XBMC. Went to the 360, Windows 7 or Media Share on my older computers. With the downloadable codec support for the 360 and no modding required, never looked back. Streams great.

The 360's codec support sucks, IMO.. unless I'm missing a recent codec update?  In which case, I'll eat my crow.    

Wireless streaming is cool though.  Freaks the wife out whenever I do it.

You don't need to solder a single think to hack an xbox. I've hacked many and only opened one up, to install a bigger hard drive. Doug, I'll hack your box in 10 minutes or less or your money back! Plus, I'll return your crimper

I use a NAF drive with a built in Media server and I also run my web/ftp/torrant server on it.  I also run a third party media server (Mediatomb).  It's a raided 2 TB (http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=509)  this things the cat meow.  I put all my important docs (because it raided) on this and all music/video/images are avaliable to every computer/xbox360/PS3 on my network.

Lance

I wouldn't mind one with the full hardware mod (large HDD), the only regret I have with my setup now.  Although having it wireless helps, it'd be nice to be able to put a few movies on it for a truly portable player.

Quoted from Cobra99

I use a NAF drive with a built in Media server and I also run my web/ftp/torrant server on it.  I also run a third party media server (Mediatomb).  It's a raided 2 TB (http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=509)  this things the cat meow.  I put all my important docs (because it raided) on this and all music/video/images are avaliable to every computer/xbox360/PS3 on my network.

Lance

Yeah, I run TVersity right now - it works fairly well.  For some reason, I cannot get it to stream to PC's as nicely as I would like ( I have to use the flashlib).   Thanks for the mediatomb link - opensource is nice...

The DNS-323 is awesome - the DNS-321 has been on sale a few times for $90.   I don't own one yet.

Quoted from jonny_eh

You don't need to solder a single think to hack an xbox. I've hacked many and only opened one up, to install a bigger hard drive. Doug, I'll hack your box in 10 minutes or less or your money back! Plus, I'll return your crimper

That's called a softmod, and softmods suck compared to flashing the TSOP.

Personally i have no reasont o stream to my xboxes, since all my tv's in the house are LCDs with media PC's hooked up and networked... with a 2 gig NAS to hold my tv shows centrally!

NERD POWER!

Media tank is another solution http://www.popcornhour.com/onlinestore/

I spent a few good hours this weekend putting Ubuntu Karmic and XBMC on a spare PC (3GHz / 1GB ram) and I wasn't that impressed.   I'm not sure why as the youtube videos look great - so maybe I'm missing a few tweaks, or don't have it set right.    I didn't get as far a long as I'd hoped.  I'd hoped to get the crawlers installed and a good video/music browser working.  

( I played too long trying to get justin.tv working without success.  Other plugins worked, but slower than I had hoped ).

For now, I'll stick with the DLINK 320 as it works well enough.   Thanks for the thoughts.

Oh yeah, the "free" XBOX was a pile of crap.   It didn't even power up - no lights, nothing.   I didn't realize how the XBOX was in terms of processiong & video out.  

Jonny thanks for the offer!

Is said Xbox still in your possession? Will take it dead or alive.