AddictiveTips Apps: send2XBMC Sends File Or URL To XBMC Media Center

By Nakodari on Feb 21 2010 13 Comments

send2XBMC is a small tool developed by one of our authors, William Nuijen. It allow users to easily send a URL or the address of the remotely shared(SMB) or local media file to your Xbox Media Center(XBMC). This can be done by  opening the file via the dialog of send2XBMC or opening the path/URL by a command line parameter.

send2xbmc explorer shell

To make it easier, integration is provided for Windows Explorer, Opera Browser, and Total Commander. For Windows Explorer you need to create a desktop shortcut and start it with the following command:

“[path]\send2xbmc.exe” /shellext

send2xbmc

When prompted, click Yes.

send2xbmc windows explorer

To remove it from the Windows Explorer context menu, hit No, when prompted. For detailed usage and integration, check out the ReadMe included with the app.

Planned features include:

  • Include scripts or functions for context menu support for:
  1. Internet Explorer
  2. Firefox (in the mean time, use XBMC Fox)
  • Let send2XBMC check inside folders for playlist files to prevent files from being added to the XBMC playlist twice (through directory listing and a playlist file)

The program has been tested on both Windows XP and Windows 7(32-bit and 64-bit) but should work with all other operating systems as well.

Download send2XBMC

Editor’s Note: Willem is looking for developers who can help implement the planned features, if you think you know some coding and can be of help, leave a comment below.

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  • http://www.aguyinhisbasement.com/ DanJohn

    This seems way too confusing. Then again, I'm pretty new to the whole media sharing world.

    I've been using Windows Media Center on my XBOX360 and have no issues whatsover. I highly doubt streaming MKV's remotely will be doable.

    • Livin

      streaming MKV works fine if your network and devices can handle it.

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  • Alex

    I keep on getting this error error: “The server name/address could not be resolved”

    I have tried modifying the .ini file to XboxIP=http://192.168.2.13/, XboxIP=http://xbox, and a few others.

    Any suggestions?
    Thanks

    • http://twitter.com/ltGuillaume Willem Nuijen

      If it asks for an IP address, then give it the IP address. That has nothing to do with any protocol like HTTP, only the address. So if your Xbox OR the PC running XBox Media Center has the IP 192.168.2.13, then the .ini file should have the entry:

      XboxIP=192.168.2.13

      • Alex

        Thanks, that's what i should have tried first!

        Unfortunately your program was to good to be true/work for me. I realized another problem that I had in the past… I am one of those poor souls who can't figure out the Windows 7 SMB issue.

  • sandboy

    Im trying to get this working with my Mac running Plex. isn't there anything you need to setup in XBMC like web access? What about user name and password in the ini file?

    EDIT: Found answer here http://www.asymmetrics.nl/send2xbmc
    But what about user name and password? Is this only using the default xbox/xbox authentication?

    • http://twitter.com/ltGuillaume Willem Nuijen

      I would love to implement support for username/password webserver protection. However, simply using http://username:password@url does not work. If anyone has some more experience with AutoIt or Basic with regards to a HTTP client object, I'd like to hear from you!

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  • http://www.petfoodz.info/ Yatti420

    Foxytunes is similiar.. I am going to try this though..

  • chr

    It says not shared path about a file in downloads and wont open?

    • http://twitter.com/ltGuillaume Willem Nuijen

      Be sure that your XBMC computer/xbox is able to access the folder containing the file: it uses Windows SMB, so XBMC should be able to access the folder, which at times requires you to set up in XBMC a username&password of one of the accounts from the system sharing this folder. (Suppose you want to share file F on computer C to XBMC, then you should enter the username and password of a user account on C into the settings of XBMC.

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  • Livin

    FANTASTIC tool! I suggest making an installer to help those less technical – if you do I think this will spread like wildfire.

  • Arthur

    Hi, it would be nice to have the source for this script. XBMC is opensource, having a closed source controller kind of doesn’t encourage me to install it or use it. If you’re asking for help on planned features, this could be an easy way to get people to add those to your code.

    • http://www.asymmetrics.nl Willem Nuijen

      The source code has been included from the beginning.

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