Xbox 360 + Flickr Interestingness?

March 7, 2008 4:52 AM

I want to use my Xbox 360 to show slideshows of the Flickr Interestingness RSS feed --- without having to download the photos every day.

Someone finally made an RSS Feed of the Flickr 'Interestingness' photos. I would love to be able to have my Xbox 360 tap into this feed somehow and show slideshows for parties and such. Is there any way to do this? I'm imagining some way of making the feed appear as a shared network folder that the 360 sees.

I would prefer not to have to download the photos onto my PC.

posted by mattholomew to Computers & Internet (5 answers total)

You might be able to hack something together with the Community Feeds plugin for Windows Home server, but I know of no native way to do this. The 360 is not going to pull images down over HTTP, so they do have to be downloaded to somewhere.
posted by Remy at 5:27 AM on March 7, 2008

I'm pretty sure you can do this with TVersity, but I don't run it anymore since the Divx support update because it plays havok with wmpntwrk.exe and all my other streaming goes to shit.
posted by prostyle at 7:59 AM on March 7, 2008

Here's a thread on their forums with answers from someone on their development team, looks like even if you set it up it will take a few days to aggregate a collection from any of the feeds onto your box, 20 (or whatever the limit is per day in the feed) at a time.
posted by prostyle at 8:05 AM on March 7, 2008

Hmm, foolish of me to make three separate answers, however tangential. I wondered if there might be an MCE for Flickr, alas there does not appear to be such a thing. I did find an old, out of development application that was intended to function as a "Flickr Screensaver" that downloads your feed of choice to a folder that you could then link through the standard WMP/Zune interface. I think this is what I'll end up toying with later, anyways.
posted by prostyle at 8:22 AM on March 7, 2008

Ok, Slickr is broken and doesn't really work very well even when it downloads images, so that's pretty much scratch as I presumed. The one thing that looks mighty promising is an MCE called "Yougle", the only stipulation being that the author has moved development to Vista Ultimate MCE only so XP MCE support is out. Which sucks, but if you have a dedicated media box like me with a smaller OS only drive or partition and you can play around with it go for it. I'll be checking it out this weekend, bonus being the Youtube/Google Video/etc support, plus steady development. Looks ridiculously cool actually, you can see a video of it here, with a "Yougle 2" dev video linked right next to it.

But this looks like it will do what you want, allow you to browse a Flickr feed (and icanhascheezburger!) on your 360 without downloading and archiving the images directly.
posted by prostyle at 8:18 AM on March 14, 2008