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quick 360 question
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:11 pm
by booker
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?
Re: quick 360 question
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:26 pm
by tnf
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.
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:29 pm
by Freakaloin
why would u want to?...
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:36 pm
by booker
Freakaloin wrote:why would u want to?...
to watch HD shows.
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:40 pm
by tnf
sort of using your 360 like a DVR then?
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 4:40 pm
by shaft
If you have a media center pc it will stream..but only certain types. You can rule out xvid or dvix.
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:04 pm
by phantasmagoria
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?
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:09 pm
by shaft
did I say anything about hdtv?
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:11 pm
by phantasmagoria
with reference to:
booker wrote:Freakaloin wrote:why would u want to?...
to watch HD shows.
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:16 pm
by shaft
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.
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:33 pm
by PhoeniX
How nice of Microsoft to make it media centre only. I'll stick to XBMC with the original xbox :/
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:49 pm
by booker
even with the compression and not having a HD TV the shows still look better.
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 5:51 pm
by booker
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.
Posted: Sun Mar 19, 2006 9:42 pm
by MKJ
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
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:19 am
by booker
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
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:24 am
by Guest
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.
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 3:43 am
by Dave
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.
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 9:11 am
by MKJ
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
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:23 pm
by glossy
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.
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 12:28 pm
by MKJ
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)
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:41 pm
by shaft
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
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 5:52 pm
by booker
can you dual boot MCE and XP?
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:10 pm
by shaft
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.
Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 8:25 pm
by MKJ
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