I have wanted to get a media streamer (videos from my computer to my pc) the past few months however I just couldn’t get myself to spend the money to buy one. I found out yesterday that was for good reason too. Why not just make one using existing equipment?

So how did I do it? Simple, I took my xbox (not an xbox 360) which I software modded a long time ago with UnleashX and loaded the XBMC (xbox media center) application. This app allows you to share videos, music, pictures, etc. to your xbox from your computer.

I had a problem with using windows shares with Vista. I read some posts that others were having problems and that they offered a different protocol you could use. This worked and it is awesome. I have movies on my computer but I don’t want to burn them to dvd because of how long it takes to transcode them. So now, I just turn on my xbox, launch the application and pick my movie.

Its pretty cool. If you have a modded xbox you should give it a try.

Site: http://xbmc.org/