XBox 360 and Windows Media Centre

Jimb0_d

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For christmas my bro got a 360. Its pretty awsome.

Today I started experimenting with the media streaming thing because the 360 is setup in out front room with the big TV and i have 50GB+ of music and many many films and tv shows.

Anyways im running Vista Ultimate 64 so have been using the media centre on there. So far all ive been able to get going is photo and music sharing.

IT seems that i cant get the sharing to pick up all the video folders and when i can get it to pick up some it tells me that they are all in the wrong format and cant play?

Now before you all go saying make sure they are in the right format let me say that ive actually tried to research this can have jsut came away more confused. I know there was a dashboard update late last year to bring DivX / Xvid support to the 360 and all my videos are in those formats.

Keeping this in mind i had a look at other sites showcasing converters and alternative ways of streaming other than WMC such as using windows media player 11 or zune player. I tried WMP 11 and got nowhere so i thought i may be a good idea to turn to some of the most tech savvy gammers that i know

Basically i just want to know if any of you guys have managed to setup Videao streaming with 360 and if so how do you do it and what prograns have u used etc?

//James
 
Okay, i tried to do this with WMP 11 almost worked then i gave up so i could play DODS
Still til this day from what i know/seen the 360 will only play WMV content unless youve dl'ed the patch for AVI

and if you want i can try it for you to see if i can do it
 
where do u get the patch from? or does it dl automatically whne your connectedt o xbox live?

Usually im great with computers but not having used a console regularly in a feew years makes me feel so lost :(
 
if you click on the file itll ask you to dl it from sbox live thats how you get it to play AVI, Divx, mpeg4, etc

i tried dling the patch from the website but it doesnt allow me to play avi and such as my friend can cause he dled off LIVE
but i did get video/music/pic streaming to my 360 from my comp finally

added side note the patch off the site lets you see the new video codecs but not play them
 

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