quick 360 question

Post by **booker** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:11 pm

maybe i missed a setting but is there any way to stream vids from a pc to the 360? Also can you connect to 2 Pc's at the same time?

Post by **tnf** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:26 pm

booker wrote:maybe i missed a setting but is there any way to stream vids from a pc to the 360? Also can you connect to 2 Pc's at the same time?

I think you need media center on the PC to do that directly from the PC.

Post by **Freakaloin** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:29 pm

why would u want to?...

Post by **booker** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:36 pm

Freakaloin wrote:why would u want to?...

to watch HD shows.

Post by **tnf** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:40 pm

sort of using your 360 like a DVR then?

Post by **shaft** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:40 pm

If you have a media center pc it will stream..but only certain types. You can rule out xvid or dvix.

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:04 pm

shaft wrote:If you have a media center pc it will stream..but only certain types. You can rule out xvid or dvix.

wouldn't trying to stream those in HD be pointless anyway, because of the compression?

Post by **shaft** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:09 pm

did I say anything about hdtv?

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:11 pm

with reference to:

booker wrote:
Freakaloin wrote:why would u want to?...
to watch HD shows.

Post by **shaft** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:16 pm

I was answering the first question in the post. But in reference to HDTV. I had some transport stream (.ts) video that played just fine in Media Center, but it would lock up my xbox when I would try to access it from the extender.

I was able to stream live hdtv straight to my xbox just fine.

Post by **PhoeniX** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:33 pm

How nice of Microsoft to make it media centre only. I'll stick to XBMC with the original xbox :/

Post by **booker** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:49 pm

even with the compression and not having a HD TV the shows still look better.

Post by **booker** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:51 pm

PhoeniX wrote:How nice of Microsoft to make it media centre only. I'll stick to XBMC with the original xbox :/

thats one of the nice things about having a 360 now. I can now mod my old xbox and not worry about fucking it up.

Post by **MKJ** » Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:42 pm

you can connect 2 pcs at the same time (that is, you can select a pc from the 360), but you need a pc with Windows Media Center to stream video's
you can stream music & pictures with WinXP SP2 though

Post by **booker** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:19 am

fucking bitch. Playing NFS:MW and got past #12 on the blacklist. Went into the dashboard for awhile, came back to the game and im back to just beating #14. But it shows me past #12 on my achievements at xbox.com. Son of a bitch

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:24 am

phantasmagoria wrote:
shaft wrote:If you have a media center pc it will stream..but only certain types. You can rule out xvid or dvix.
wouldn't trying to stream those in HD be pointless anyway, because of the compression?

In HD they still look fine IMO.

Post by **Dave** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:43 am

shaft wrote:I was answering the first question in the post. But in reference to HDTV. I had some transport stream (.ts) video that played just fine in Media Center, but it would lock up my xbox when I would try to access it from the extender.

I was able to stream live hdtv straight to my xbox just fine.

Although I have no idea, I'm guessing that streaming video from a Media Center PC to a 360 would only work with WMV or standard MPEG (maybe MPEG-2) content, or any other standard codec that MCP and the 360 are aware of.

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:11 am

theres a list of compatible codecs somewhere on microsoft.com. i also quoted that here in the forum so if you do a search you might find it

Post by **glossy** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:23 pm

they just released a program that allows you to stream xvid/divx through MCE, but with a helper program... i read about it on xbox-scene.com a couple of weeks ago.

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:28 pm

thats quite interesting glossy. im thinking of converting my current mp3 server to a WMC. if its able to stream every vid type directly to the 360 that would just be secks in a can.

currently im still trying to create playlists which the 360 picks up on (since the 360 playlists can only contain files that are on the 360's HDD)

Post by **shaft** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:41 pm

glossy wrote:they just released a program that allows you to stream xvid/divx through MCE, but with a helper program... i read about it on xbox-scene.com a couple of weeks ago.

I would like to find this.
edit: here it is.. http://www.xbox-scene.com/xbox360-tools ... ode360.php

Post by **booker** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:52 pm

can you dual boot MCE and XP?

Post by **shaft** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:10 pm

I would think so? But why, its still xp right? As long as it still runs all my games and shit..im thinking about switching to it. Right now I just have it on a spare drive trying it out. But I dont see a need to dual boot.

Post by **MKJ** » Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:25 pm

MKJ wrote:
currently im still trying to create playlists which the 360 picks up on (since the 360 playlists can only contain files that are on the 360's HDD)

hurray i was able to do it. \o/ now i can play those song in my living room as well without busting out a cd. cool stuff

although its unable to play a select few of files. thats really weird

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