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<blockquote data-quote="mxD" data-source="post: 1054744" data-attributes="member: 145647">Thanks MM all your comments have been greatly useful and got me past my frustration point!&nbsp;there are a couple of reasons I would like to directly connect to a stream. One being I have 2 wdtv server in the house that I'm not sure how to get to work with out connecting to the actual shared file (which I believe is how I got them to work last time) . and there is also the wifes and my notepads which im sure I can probably find a mp or xbmc app for but just knowing how the server works is a plus .&nbsp;there is also the idea in my mind that down the road I may try to write a small app to try to pull together all my media (books music vidoes/iso's) into a &quot;universal media browser&quot; and using that&nbsp; to open the right app to play/read&nbsp; them and somehow getting all these 1000's of files databased in a way I like . there doesn't seem to be a universal app out there that does it&nbsp; all but MP comes close and in my humble opinion the tv server is probably the best one&nbsp; .&nbsp;You were right by the way MP one my wife's system took right off ..so the problem is probably network or VLC related . I'll hack away at this a little more tonight. Really stupid of me not to have tried that hours ago but I just assumed that VLC would do all the necessary bits to hook up to the RTSP protocol&nbsp;as far as front end I suppose I can get the source and try to parse out the connection code to see what I is going on now that wdtv does not support custom kernels anymore I am not sure I want to mess with those to try to get a good proper stream with those I may just have to go back to the file connection and live with it .&nbsp;&nbsp;again thanks again ...MX</blockquote>

[QUOTE="mxD, post: 1054744, member: 145647"] Thanks MM all your comments have been greatly useful and got me past my frustration point! there are a couple of reasons I would like to directly connect to a stream. One being I have 2 wdtv server in the house that I'm not sure how to get to work with out connecting to the actual shared file (which I believe is how I got them to work last time) . and there is also the wifes and my notepads which im sure I can probably find a mp or xbmc app for but just knowing how the server works is a plus . there is also the idea in my mind that down the road I may try to write a small app to try to pull together all my media (books music vidoes/iso's) into a "universal media browser" and using that to open the right app to play/read them and somehow getting all these 1000's of files databased in a way I like . there doesn't seem to be a universal app out there that does it all but MP comes close and in my humble opinion the tv server is probably the best one . You were right by the way MP one my wife's system took right off ..so the problem is probably network or VLC related . I'll hack away at this a little more tonight. Really stupid of me not to have tried that hours ago but I just assumed that VLC would do all the necessary bits to hook up to the RTSP protocol as far as front end I suppose I can get the source and try to parse out the connection code to see what I is going on now that wdtv does not support custom kernels anymore I am not sure I want to mess with those to try to get a good proper stream with those I may just have to go back to the file connection and live with it . again thanks again ... MX [/QUOTE]

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