Xbox 360 XNA HLS Streaming

Question

I am interested in creating a simple HLS Viewer for the Xbox 360 that works kind of like SilverLive. I have read about as much documentation oh HLS that I can find and am not sure where to continue. I feel like I could probably write the code to handle HLS myself, it doesn't sound overly complex (unless there is something I am missing). I do not however, have any idea where to start with playing the video/audio segments on the 360 once they get there.

What does everyone think? Would I need to implement some sort of codec pack and use that to render the frames as a texture? If so, are there any functional codecs supported by .NET for mpeg2 and aac that don't use anything the 360 has no support for?

Answer 1

Unfortunately XNA Framework games are not able to access the Internet (or perform any network communication at all other than through Xbox LIVE or System Link), so creating a streaming application isn't possible.

What you want to achieve is possible using the professional development tools, but your game/application wouldn't pass the certification requirements for release on the Xbox 360 (because of its use of the Internet/LAN).