"Follow Me", save a bookmark or playlist on a XBMC machine and resume it on a other?

At CES netgear showed off its Digital Entertainer HD. The xbox with XBMC achieves most of the same functionallity, but there are 2 features that would be awesome if it could be added to XBMC. They are called follow me and party mode. Here is how they describe it.

[INDENT]Multi-Room Playback Features – Using two or more Digital Entertainer HDs in different rooms, synchronize music throughout the house (Party Mode) or pause a video in your living room and resume it in another room (Follow Me).

[/INDENT]Here is a link to there site. http://www.netgear.com/Products/Entertai...A8000.aspx

No interest or comment on this?

If it is possible I think it would make XBMC the complete package. Anyone who has multiple xboxs on their network would enjoy these features.

w84no1 Wrote:No interest or comment on this?

If it is possible I think it would make XBMC the complete package. Anyone who has multiple xboxs on their network would enjoy these features.

If you make the hardware component, then someone would do the rest.

The xbox is the hardware component

The hardware component should be something that you carry so the XBox could know where you are, for example, a bluetooth movile. But the most important point is to add the bluetooth support to the XBox.

Why would you need extra hardware? To stop a movie and continue in another room, should be possible. Instead of saving the timeindex of where you left of just to the database, you could save it at the same location of where the movie is.. then the other xbox could pick up where the other left off..

yeah i'm not quite sure why you think it would need bluetooth, unless you don't have the xboxes hooked up to the network, which i think most people do. This would be a neat feature if it was implemented, more if used with video than audio personally.

RE : Party mode (be careful, we already have a feature called party mode)
at this time there is no audio server available on the xbox platform that doesnt use a buffer.

For example if xbox A is the 'master' xbox that is streaming to xbox B and xbox C. Xbox B and C have a cache of about 256k which is about 20seconds. This means that xbox B and C are out of sync with xboxA by the amount of time it takes to fill 256k of data over the network. The end result is un-syncronised music
A special server and streaming system would need to be developed or ported to allow this functionality.

Regarding the follow me feature.
Interesting, but how and where would you propose to impliment this in the UI? It wouldnt be terribly difficult to code but fitting it into the UI isnt the easiest thing to do.
(and pop-ups would be FAR too intrustive to a user on another xbox)

Think more about your idea and try and find solutions to some of these problems

Loto_Bak Wrote:RE : Party mode (be careful, we already have a feature called party mode)
at this time there is no audio server available on the xbox platform that doesnt use a buffer.

For example if xbox A is the 'master' xbox that is streaming to xbox B and xbox C. Xbox B and C have a cache of about 256k which is about 20seconds. This means that xbox B and C are out of sync with xboxA by the amount of time it takes to fill 256k of data over the network. The end result is un-syncronised music
A special server and streaming system would need to be developed or ported to allow this functionality.

Regarding the follow me feature.
Interesting, but how and where would you propose to impliment this in the UI? It wouldnt be terribly difficult to code but fitting it into the UI isnt the easiest thing to do.
(and pop-ups would be FAR too intrustive to a user on another xbox)

Think more about your idea and try and find solutions to some of these problems

I see the problem with audio. With the video, you could pause the video then bring up the context menu that would have an option that says Finish in other Room or something like that. Then you would go upstairs to the other xbox and in the video section there would be a button for finishing the video from another room. As long as the videos are on a central server accessible to both xboxes it should work. I wonder if using the UPnP or the Autodetection could be used to pull it all together.

oh, wow, party mode would definitely be cool, i didn't catch that part at first