What's the purpose of this? It doesn't provide transcoding, and my Xbox 360 can pull media off of my computer if I put it in the shared media folder. WMP can be used to share additional media from different folders, so seriously what is the application here?
TVersity serves media with and without transcoding, doing it all with minimal CPU usage; even on my 3 year old laptop I manage to stream 720p MKV's through tversity without rendering my laptop inoperable during the movie.
Use a portable HDD and plug it directly into you 360, it'll use a hell of a lot less power than a media server and will only consume power when your xbox is running. Totalling about 9W of extra consumption assuming constant usage of the USB drive while the Xbox is activated.
I can't see anything running for lower power than 9W.
Yeah that includes the hard drive. Once you have a 24/7 dlna/upnp server u can play not only from TV and other computers as well. It is not a game changing device but there is a value in it. i rest my case.
You can do the same thing using fuppes, an updated version of uShare. Fuppes also supports transcoding, uses a sqlite backend and can rescan watch folders to rebuild the database pretty quickly (either from cli or web interface, without restarting). I use it to stream to an xbox360 and it works perfectly. Haven't tried transcoding though since all my video is compatible.
TVersity serves media with and without transcoding, doing it all with minimal CPU usage; even on my 3 year old laptop I manage to stream 720p MKV's through tversity without rendering my laptop inoperable during the movie.