Comments on: Installing MediaTomb on OpenFiler

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 21 Nov 2012 01:35:40 +0000

Thanks for a great Mediatomb primer for Openfiler users. Excellent – I had it up and runnign and streaming my video library to the PS3 in minutes.

By: Peter Liska

Peter Liska — Sat, 14 Jan 2012 02:15:41 +0000

David, you’re right: the 360 will not currently detect MediaTomb servers on your network. Support is in the works for the 360 but not currently implemented.

From http://mediatomb.cc/pages/documentation

“… there is still no Xbox 360 support in MediaTomb, more work needs to be done.”

By: David Hogue

David Hogue — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 21:38:00 +0000

Well maybe I’ll give it another shot then. When I initially tried it, the xbox didn’t find any media servers and I searched around and got the impression it wasn’t supported at all. Maybe I had something else misconfigured.

By: Scott Alan Miller

Scott Alan Miller — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 02:58:06 +0000

MediaTomb’s goal is just to be a DLNA server, not a transcoder. It will work fine with 360 if you are streaming 360 compatible files. If you want to stream files not compressed for the 360 then you’ll need a transcoder to conver the files on the fly.

The reason that I use MediaTomb is because I can pre-compress for my intended targets to get maximum quality and the smallest storage size. I like that MediaTomb guarantees that there will be no transcoding at the time of viewing.

By: David Hogue

David Hogue — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 19:10:22 +0000

Thanks for this writeup, with it I was able to get MediaTomb up and running.

Unfortunately MediaTomb doesn’t seem to support streaming to the Xbox 360 yet, so I guess I’ll keep looking for another DLNA solution.

By: Jagjeet Singh

Jagjeet Singh — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 09:04:31 +0000

Thanks Scott, it was helpful and saved lot of effort. I will be using mediatomb with openfiler.

Thanks,

By: Matt

Matt — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 20:57:10 +0000

Great article! I read it all 🙂