[Tomkun]

ok, i have two requests... basically, i want to use a live webcam as my background in pm3 (it looks awesome) and to do this flawlessly, i need two things.

1) a method to start video minimised.

2) a way to stream video in the background until it is ready to start. sometimes a video can take as much as a minute to start playing and while it is buffering the xbox can't do anything else.

if this is already possible, i apologise but a thorough search didn't help me.

[thor918]

start a video in background can be done in python:

http://www.xboxmediaplayer.de/cgi-bin....t=12748

[Tomkun]

excellent stuff, thanks for that! any idea about the streaming?

[thor918]

naa sorry.the buffering progress must be shown.
maby some codechanging must be done for this to happen.

[Tomkun]

fair enough then. i shall consider writing a formal proposal for sourceforge. what do you reckon of my chances?

[thor918]

dosen't hurt to try.
post a feature request on sourceforge.maby someone answers.

[Tomkun]

actually, i sorted it by myself (well, kind of). all i needed to do was...

1. use the script that you linked to above (thanks a lot for that)

2. reduce the cache for internet unknown streams to 256kb. the buffering screen only pops up for a brief second now, which is fine for me.

although, this does raise another question...
the stream i am using is a wmv stream inside a .strm file. why is this affected by the 'unknown stream' and and not the 'video stream'?