audio streaming to extender from application

Flancer · **20th May 2006, 07:58 AM**

Hi guys, I'm just scoping out a bit of a media center application and I was wondering if anybody could tell me if and how you can make audio stream to a media center extender(i.e. Xbox 360) from a media center application.

Flancer

headkaze · **20th May 2006, 01:16 PM**

I don't really know exactly how you would do this, but my guess would be to write an ActiveX application that would check window.external.MediaCenter.Capabilities.IsConsole (); to find out if you running from a remote location then window.external.MediaCenter.Capabilities.IsVideoAl lowed(); to find out it it's an MCE extender or running from Remote Desktop. If it's an extender you could then grab the IP address of the host and attempt to connect to it through some designated port on your MCE machine. On your MCE machine you have a mini server type application running in the background. If a connection can be established the server will stream the audio down to the ActiveX app which reads the audio and plays it.

Flancer · **21st May 2006, 01:17 AM**

lol sounds too much like hard work to me. I got another idea thought. Seee i wanna try and make an app that will allow me to search google videos through an extender. I did some testing and the inbuilt player was playing the video fine but no audio, but i got another idea so i'll keep you posted.