2004-08-27, 05:50
okay, okay, how many times has it been said you can't stream games to the xbox?
i know. it's true.
but would anyone be interested in a half-measure? it wouldn't be hard to write a game management script in python that caches files from a pc share onto a limited space on the xbox hard drive for playing.
anyone interested?
i'm specifically thinking of a pair of scripts--a server on the pc with the share, that polls all your pc's folders containing a default.xbe file and then sends a list of the available games to the xbox. a script on the xbox that reads that list and shows those games as available (shared).
you click on one. if it's already on the xbox, it launches and begins playing. if not, it copies the whole folder over the network (which, admittedly, would take some time!, and then launches it.
you'd still have to have at least enough room on your xbox hard drive for the full game. i'm thinking you could tell it how much space, on which drive, to allocate to games, and the script would keep track of how recently you've played each of the games currently stored in that space. if you try to copy one over that you don't have room for, the oldest cached game gets deleted to make room for the new one.
if you've got enough room on your hard drive, you can label some of the cached files as favorites, which won't get deleted to make room for others (unless you remove them from favorites).
it wouldn't be hard, but it would take some time. anyone interested, or is it too much work for too little reward. let me know.
it's almost worth doing just to get rid of that sarcastic thread in the pinned topic over at xs. :-)
alexpoet.
i know. it's true.
but would anyone be interested in a half-measure? it wouldn't be hard to write a game management script in python that caches files from a pc share onto a limited space on the xbox hard drive for playing.
anyone interested?
i'm specifically thinking of a pair of scripts--a server on the pc with the share, that polls all your pc's folders containing a default.xbe file and then sends a list of the available games to the xbox. a script on the xbox that reads that list and shows those games as available (shared).
you click on one. if it's already on the xbox, it launches and begins playing. if not, it copies the whole folder over the network (which, admittedly, would take some time!, and then launches it.
you'd still have to have at least enough room on your xbox hard drive for the full game. i'm thinking you could tell it how much space, on which drive, to allocate to games, and the script would keep track of how recently you've played each of the games currently stored in that space. if you try to copy one over that you don't have room for, the oldest cached game gets deleted to make room for the new one.
if you've got enough room on your hard drive, you can label some of the cached files as favorites, which won't get deleted to make room for others (unless you remove them from favorites).
it wouldn't be hard, but it would take some time. anyone interested, or is it too much work for too little reward. let me know.
it's almost worth doing just to get rid of that sarcastic thread in the pinned topic over at xs. :-)
alexpoet.
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