insomia Posted October 11, 2007 Posted October 11, 2007 Hi All, Just wondering how many bro here are using their 360 as a media extender? I have recenly set up my 360 to connect to my Vista Media Center and after going through many problems, sleepless nights with network connections/codec/ i finally get it to work... here are some very good plugin's for you, if you are interested http://www.mymovies.name/ allows you to input meta or xml information to your rip dvd's, such as cover art http://tversity.com/ another great software for you to stream your audio/video files without going through media center... support transcoding on the file for many file format http://transcode360.co.uk/ the popular transcode360... allows you to transcode on the fly for .avi,mpg,dixv,vob file from media center extender... Cheers
pschia Posted October 11, 2007 Posted October 11, 2007 I still can't get my Vista Media Centre to speak to my XBox 360. Didn't have so much problem when I was using Windows XP. :(
insomia Posted October 11, 2007 Author Posted October 11, 2007 what seems to be the problem? there are reports that some 3rd party firewall and AV is causing connectivity issues...
Quest88 Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 Wow what does this do? Allow xbox360 to be used to show all the movies as per media centre? I'm using mymovies also. If that's so, I think thats a great investment for me just for this functionality. ;D
insomia Posted October 12, 2007 Author Posted October 12, 2007 hi quest, yeah... basically xbox 360 can act as a extender to play back music/video store at your media center PC... (except for DVD *.VOB files) currently using it as a media server.. which is great... i can stream my videos/music without burning to disc... or purchase network streamer such as squeezebox etc i think the interface where album art is automatically displayed... :)
Quest88 Posted October 12, 2007 Posted October 12, 2007 yeah... basically xbox 360 can act as a extender to play back music/video store at your media center PC... (except for DVD *.VOB files) what! no VOB files? :( then how do you playback ur stored dvds? thats how i catalogue n keep my dvds anyway.. not much use to me otherwise..
insomia Posted October 12, 2007 Author Posted October 12, 2007 yeah... Microsoft decided not to piss the folks off in hollywood.. so you cant play back .vob... however there is always a work around... call transcoding on the fly... :) you can just download here http://transcode360.co.uk/ or if you like, you can transcode to .mpg to view it directly...
Quest88 Posted October 13, 2007 Posted October 13, 2007 oh ok. hee. thanks. i'll look into it. seems weird that the MCE extender can't but MCE by itself can do this though.
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