hi all in my media player on xbox i se play movies from pc,so my question is,is it possable to connect the xbox to pc ,i have it connected pc to xbox as the normal way but was wondering with somethink like Avalaunch if i could do this
cheers nat

Yes its called ReLax, its a streaming software you run on your pc and make folders ,then by changing and ading a few things to your xbmp config file you can stream music movies and pictures from your pc to your xbox.
You can get relax here http://dwl.xbox-scene.net/~xbox/xbox-scene/tools/streaming/RelaX_v075.zip

well relax is an option but i would suggest samba share as a better streaming protocol as it requires no setting up of anything on your pc other than to make the folders you want to share shareable on the pc (its up to you whether you want to password protect it)

I'm at uni now but if you post back saying whether you are using XBmedia player or media center i can give you examples of whats in the settings folder which you can then use for your set up, when i get home.

im using XBmedia player,and cheers for the help,can i alsow say access my h/d from the xbox so if i had loads of games on pc h/d could i drag them from the xbox insted of from the pc

Umm, not to sound dumb but with relax all you have to do is set up folders as well and thats it ;) anyways its your call,good luck with which ever you choose and have fun :D

cheers m8 got software just got to fiddle with it now to get it going

sorry socrates75 didn't mean to diss relax

just going with what team xbmc are saying.

Its just alot of the other progs, dvd2xbox, complex tools, and a load of emulators are starting to support smaba so portability of share set up is quite useful

I was under the impression relax had to be installed on the pc to run it a relax stream- maybe i got this wrong- if so i apologise.

Its just with the text editor in unleash (amongst others) its possible to get access to any shared folder on a network from your xbox without requiring anything to be installed on any pcs- using samba share (provided you know the ipaddress or computers' name, and (if required) usernames and passwords)

nimbles could u give me link if poss to that software so i can give that a try m8

ok heres my samba sub directories file structure within "My videos"

My computer is Called "Nim-Computer", the Home network is called "Home" and Shared folders are "Tv Series" and "Movies" neither have a user name or pass word assigned:

<share>
<name>My Movies</name>
<url>smb://Home/Nim-computer/Movies</url>
<cachesize>8192</cachesize>
</share>
<share>
<name>My Tv Series</name>
<url>smb://Home/Nim-computer/TV Series</url>
<cachesize>8192</cachesize>
</share>


the reason i use computer name over ip address (which also perfectly valid) is i am using a dhcp enabled router, so the ip address of the xbox or moreimportantly the pc is likely to change every so often, where as the pc's name isn't

Xbox media centre's isn't exactly the same and looks as follows:

<bookmark>
<name>My Movies</name>
<path>smb://Nim-computer/Movies</path>
</bookmark>
<bookmark>
<name>My TV Series</name>
<path>smb://Nim-computer/TV Series</path>
</bookmark>

basically you don't need the workgroup with xbmc's samba share

if for what ever reason you have the shared folders password protected insert "username":"password"@ after the smb:// (without the quotes)

also if the Shared name used is different to the actual folders name use the shared name as it appears in the properties-> shared tab in xp

hope you get it to work

cheers m8 could u tell me whitch files i need to edit m8 or make

config.xml for xbmp xboxmediacenter.xml for xbmc