PlayOn – XBMC
January 7, 2009 – 1:28 pmI've been trying out the beta of PlayOn on my Xbox for the last few weeks. I like it.
PlayOn is a UPnP server that you install on your PC. It scrapes RSS feeds and then performs some magic so you can watch videos from those feeds on DLNA capable devices. So far it supports YouTube, Netflix, CBS, CNN, ESPN and Hulu.
It works well on my Xbox running XBMC. It's really nice to watch videos from those sites on my TV, so nice that I paid the $30 for the registered version of PlayOn.
It is a beta, and the only problem I have found is a strange one. My first attempt to play a video never works, the second one always does. This means I click play, wait five seconds for it to fail, then click play again. It's hardly even annoying.
