The kind people at xbstream.com have just released a free download for your PC that will allow you to stream rss files to your console. The software acts as a basic feed aggregator, so you can view any xml content, including photo casts or plain old news feeds.
XB Stream will not require a Media Center PC, and will work fine with Windows XP Home or Professional. Sadly, for me especially, there is no Mac OS support.
This news touches our hearts here at px360, because our very own planet xbox 360 podcast will be released as an rss feed today, allowing you to use XB Stream to pipe our enchanting voices over your 360 while you play games. Of course, you can listen to other things to, if you must.
XB Stream automatically downloads and converts text based content feeds into images that can be viewed from the media>pictures>computer blade and hear audio podcasts/blogcasts from the media>music>computer blade. Content feeds are automatically managed by the software so you are always given fresh feeds, and older feeds are automatically deleted. Audio feeds show up as playlists and can be listened to while playing your favorite games! Below are all of the features of XB Stream:
Full support for all versions of Windows XP (Home, Professional, Media Center) & Windows Vista
Full support for Windows Media Connect, and Windows Media Player 11 (or higher)
Built in wizards to automatically configure with WMC and WMP 11 (or higher)
Automatically downloads text based xml feeds and converts to images
Automatically downloads and builds playlists for audio podcasts and blogcasts
Automatically deletes and manages old content feeds, allowing you to set the max number of feed items to retain
Simulates the Xbox 360 dashboard look onto rendered text content feeds
Downloads and renders content feeds with all images, and html formatting
Automatically breaks up large content feeds onto multiple pages
Easily add/remove and manage content feeds with the intuitive XB Stream feed manager
Supports outputting images in both widescreen and standard definition format.
Choose the frequency of how often content feeds should download and update - 15, 30 minutes, 1, 4 hours, 1 day, 1 week, or choose manual updates
Runs as a Windows NT service, allowing feeds to be downloaded to the Xbox 360 without anyone logging into the computer
Log-off the computer and content feed updates will still download and process themselves
Comes included with several text and audio content feeds from the best of the Xbox 360 community sites
Built just for the Xbox 360 video game console, and best of all it’s completely FREE!
