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#1 2009-04-18 04:54:57
- nukedathlonman
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DNS-323 & xBox 360
I'm really pleased with my DNS-323 (Firmware 1.06 and a pair of SeagateST31000430AS drives).
At one point I was using Fonz's fun_plug on 1.05 firmware and Twonky to serve content to my 360, but with D-Link now supporting the 360 directly, I decided for warranty purposes to put it back to strictly stock firmware.
I'm wondering is anyone has experienced this problem: I have 780 MP3's, 4000 photo's, and 50 home video's on my DNS 323. When I'm playing back the MP3's on the 360 the MP3's stutter at times and the DNS-323 will disappear after a couple of hours of playing back music. I originally figured that the stutter is most likely being caused by the xBox's wireless connection. But this only occurs when I play back music - video's and photo viewing works fine unless it dropped out from music play back before hand. When it does occur, everything else continues to work fine - it seams like the UPnP server died.
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#2 2009-04-18 05:52:26
- devotee
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- Registered: 2008-12-12
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Re: DNS-323 & xBox 360
It's a common problem. I don't remember where I saw it, but someone tried to debug the problem capturing all traffic between the 360 and the media server (it's not a DNS-323 isolated problem, it does happen with other streaming systems), and found that it seemed that it was the xbox's fault. At some point, even if the device streaming the music was saying to the xbox "Hey, I'm still here, get this network packet", the 360 wouldn't reply.
Have you tried if it also fails on a wired network? I think that was also discussed (the problem happening on wireless connection but not on wired).
No wonder why mediatomb developers refuse to support the xbox 360... 
CH3SNAS • 2x Seagate Barracuda ES 7200.11 ST31000340AS 1TB SATAII (3.0Gb/s) 7200RPM 32MB (Rev: SD1A) • Individual volumes • FW1.05 (Firmware Date: 12/31/2008) • ext2
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#3 2009-04-20 16:41:30
- nukedathlonman
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Re: DNS-323 & xBox 360
Hmm - I'll have to dig out my trusty old wired router and check that out. Will post my findings.
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#4 2009-04-20 21:38:49
- talkingRock
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Re: DNS-323 & xBox 360
Could you keep us up to date on what you find?
I'd like to get this serving video/audio to an xbox as well.
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#5 2009-04-30 02:31:40
- nukedathlonman
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Re: DNS-323 & xBox 360
Sorry, been a few days. On the weekend I fired up my 360 and was immediately prompted to get it updated.... Ever since, I haven't had a problem with play back. Dunno what to think as I really *doubt* MS would release a fix for the 360 that would allow it to play media from anything other then a Windows media enabled computer.
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#6 2009-07-08 09:37:06
- heiYee2u
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Re: DNS-323 & xBox 360
Sorry for hijacking this thread, but I couldn't resist since it's thematically perfectly fitting. :-)
Has anyone of you ever tried connecting the DNS-323 directly to the Xbox 360 via USB? Is it possible for the DNS-323 to be recognised as a 'portable drive' within the Xbox 360 dashboard (within video/music/photo library sections)?
This way it would be possible to avoid this odd UPnP Windows Media streaming thingie in favor of a much simpler way. :-)
Thanks a bunch in advance!
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#7 2009-07-28 07:11:27
- bobby_newmark
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Re: DNS-323 & xBox 360
I doubt this can be done. The DNS 323 isn't a USB storage device. It actually is (just?) a USB host, like the xbox, so you can't even connect them with USB cables.
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