Did Someone Already Reverse Engineer the Extender Protocol?
There have been several projects to figure out exactly how
Extenders work so that maybe a Software Extender (Softsled) could be developed
outside of Microsoft. There is a project on CodePlex, though slow
moving it seems like people are starting to get an understanding on how things
work. There have been a dozen threads on
The Green Button talking about the same, and of course there is a full website dedicated to SoftSled. No one thus far has come up with anything
ground breaking however.
But wait, last night I was browsing SourceForge and found a
project started last year called Tufour. I've never seen anyone link or talk about Tufour, but it says it “Emulates
the media center server protocol used by Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005
to allow media center extenders (with a focus on the Xbox 360) to operate as
thin clients.” I know enough about programming to write Hello World, and that's about it. Anyone want to compile this and see what it really does, if anything (especially in Vista)?
The code is in SVN at
SourceForge, who wants to take a stab at it?
