There are a couple of different methods floating around to do this, but I think this is the quickest and easiest to get set up. So far, I like this better then FTP’ing files over to my old modded xbox. Some notes about further investigating will be at the bottom. Note: this was tested on an Ubuntu machine.

• Make sure your 360 has all the current updates
• Install ushare

  “sudo apt-get install ushare”

• if ushare complains about a missing libdlna dependency, get it from here: “wget http://www.geexbox.org/debian/pool/main/libdlna/libdlna0_0.2.3-0ubuntu1_i386.deb”
  
  

• Edit the ushare configuration

  “sudo vim /etc/ushare.conf”

  update any ports or network devices you need to (I changed mine to eth1 so it would just use the wireless) as well as what folder to scan

• There is a mime-type you need to update

  “sudo vim /usr/share/mime/packages/freedesktop.org.xml”

  change mime-type type=”video/x-msvideo” to mime-type type=”video/x-ms-wmv”

• restart gnome (ctrl + alt + backspace)
• start ushare with “ushare -x”
• Go to the media blade on your 360 dashboard
• Press ‘X’ to change the source
• You should see uShare (or whatever you named the share to in the configuration)
• play videos!
• note: to play a .mkv file, rename it to .m4v

• To Do:

  • get uShare to automatically rescan the directory (currently if I add a video to the folder, the 360 will not see it until i restart uShare)
  • get 1080p HD content to stream. I have tried a few re-encapsulation methods so far, nothing working yet
  • this is an xbox thing, that hopefully will be fixed in the fall update, but navigating large folder trees can get annoying