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I'll put in another vote for audio sync, sonos and rhapsody do it so it's a natural extension of XBMC IMHO (and will save me a lot wiring :-).
I don't care about video sync though.
My thoughts are similar to rickatnight11, why not use NTP to timesync and have each xbox playback the same file (assuming file locking on the SMB share isn't a problem).
Though I'm not sure how this would work with the non-xbox versions of XBMC? You could make the feature contigent on music files being on a drive that is shared (mounted) in the same location on each XBMC.
Or the XBMC itself reshares the file to the other XBMCs. Either way is slightly ugly. Would be better if there was streaming service on a central server and each XBMC syncs to that. I suspect Rhapsody works in this way.
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At the least, each box could buffer a portion of the file for a few seconds and then play each segment, synching via NTP every so often, as a sort of streaming hybrid.
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2009-08-10, 15:20
Is this thread still kinda active?
Am myselft looking to do the same thing
have the backend done, but as experienced streams get out of sync. am using vlc as the stream server so moving to a multicast rtp is not a issue.
However an xbmc (xbox) client is not yet arround (well i've not found 1)
Any ideas
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There already is a web interface, and there's a fantastic app for the iPhone/iPod Touch to do exactly that. Let's you use it like a remote, or just scroll through your media on the handheld and select what you want to play.
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I agree that there already is a web interface, but it is not great for low resolution devices, there are a stack of others around.
What I really do like is the concept of the multi-room playback.
For Music, Video or both. VLC is a very comprehensive app and I think re-implementig and maintaining it would be difficult.
There are some common configurations that could probably have a solution found for.
EG:
Most home networks are only 1 subnet, without broadcasting issues.
Most home installs of XBMC have the SAME configuration for Music, videos and pics, this device is typically a NAS (SMB) share.
Most home networks would have access to a NTP (time) server.
Most home networks have good bandwidth. (entire music tracks can be cached)
Most homes would not need to have 100% accuracy for playback to be ideal.
It would be great to see an attempt at multiroom playback, I would be really happy with a basic implementation, the holy grail of multiroom playback seems very difficult.
Multiroom playback doesnt have to mean playing a stream, it could mean playing the same file at the same time.
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as far as i can tell we still have an issue here
yes VLC does have a web interface and yes it can sync itself
but VLC does not run on XBMC (well as far as i know).
So for either windows,linux,mac this is all fine I have xboxes in the house for end players (there are cheaper)
the problem still exists