After a little work, I finally got my Xbox 360 to connect with my computer using uShare. uShare allows you to share music, movies and pictures to your Xbox via UPnP. For Gentoo/Funtoo users out there, it is a bit of a pain to get working. First, it isn’t in Gentoo’s official Portage, so you have to get the overlay, and add… for Funtoo users though, the version listed in Portage has problems with the init scripts, so it is better to get the Overlay anyway.
Overlay: http://bugs.gentoo.org/192561
Next, the config files; if you had an old version of uShare, ditch it, and all of it’s config files(/etc/ushare.conf). I used the following config for /etc/conf.d/ushare … and make sure that you add ‘-c’ in front of the directories you plan on sharing, or uShare wont start up, and wont give you any proper error readout.
# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: $
# User to run ushare daemon (if none, root will be used)
USHARE_USER=""
# UPNP Friendly Name:
USHARE_NAME="reaper"
# The interface to bind to:
USHARE_IFACE="eth0"
# A List of directories to share, each precieded by '-c':
USHARE_DIRS="-c /home/roberts/media"
# Misc. options, like:
# -p $port Use specific port to listen ($port)
# -x, --xbox Use XboX 360 compliant profile
# -d, --dlna Use DLNA compliant profile (PlayStation3 needs this)
# -w, --no-web Disable the control web page (enabled by default)
# -t, --no-telnet Disable the telnet control (enabled by default)
USHARE_OPTS="-x -p 49152"
After this, you should be good. Start uShare with ‘/etc/init.d/ushare start’, point your browser to YOUR.IP:49152/web/ushare.html , and you can add more directories to share there.
Overall, the web interface is really bare and has no automatic refresh option, so every time you add files to the share directories, you have to restart the service, or click the refresh button on the web interface, however, it works. The only downfall is that it doesn’t perform transcoding, so you have to make sure you encode your videos in the right format. (I am working on that now, because I can see all of the directories, but the files are the “wrong format”)
Another tip, when trying to connect from the Xbox, make sure that you are in the “Video Library”, “Music Library”, or “Picture Library” and not in the Windows Media Center section. UPnP does not substitute WMC.
Thank you )))