Windows Media Centre Set-Up Xbox 360

[Touring Remo]

Am i right in saying because im runnning xp i won't be able to connect to my laptop and run what ever needs to be done.....

My xbox is hard wired into the wireless hub along with a pc. but if i connect to my laptop which is wireless might it still work?

Any advice would be great,

TR

[Steve Evil]

Unless you have media center edition you won't be able to get all the features, but you can hook it up via Media Player 11 and view all your videos and listen to your stored music that way, wireless won't be a problem so long as they're running off the same router.

[Touring Remo]

hmm. well the comuter that is hard wired in along with myxbox the xbox can't fins. ah well meh. il give up. i think ima just buy a external hard drive that il just plug into the xbox..

just got to be FAT32 formatted or something i think....

worked with my memory stick anyway

[Steve Evil]

I remember having to go through the sharing options in WMP11, Library>Media Sharing and then making sure the media is shared, then selecting the XBox as a device to share to.

[CraigW]

i remember trying everything, throwing my toys out of the pram then getting plotloss to do it

[Joda Cast]

If you have Windows Vista Home Premium then you can use the 360 as a Windows Media Center Extender. If you have Windows XP, and Windows Media Player 11 you need to goto Media Player settings Library > Media Sharing. Follow the guide here: http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/systemuse/xbox36...

Now I can watch Lost on the BIG tv

[Mekon]

It's a doddle if your desktop has normal XP and you've got windows media player 11 installed - instructions here http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/systemuse/xbox36...

Seriously, it's a piece of piss.

[trooperiziz]

Mekon said:

It's a doddle if your desktop has normal XP and you've got windows media player 11 installed - instructions here http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/systemuse/xbox36...

Seriously, it's a piece of piss.

Until it stops working for no reason whatsoever and takes you hours of playing around with various settings and uninstalling/reinstalling various things until you give up in a huff, only for it to start working again the next day with no changes...

[Polarbert]

trooperiziz said:

Mekon said:

It's a doddle if your desktop has normal XP and you've got windows media player 11 installed - instructions here http://www.xbox.com/en-US/support/systemuse/xbox36...

Seriously, it's a piece of piss.

Until it stops working for no reason whatsoever and takes you hours of playing around with various settings and uninstalling/reinstalling various things until you give up in a huff, only for it to start working again the next day with no changes...

I've had that as well. Watched a film streamed wirelessly in the morning. Afternoon I came to listen to some music and it said that it couldn't find the PC. Had to unistall and reinstall to get it to work.

[scorp]

Get TVersity (i say this all the time)...

[jimmyjimjim]

TRY TVersity is what you mean.
I did, and found it crashing on me like no other application I've seen previously. And to call it resource hungry would be putting it mildly.
There are other media servers out there; the full suite of Nero has a media server that works ok.
Windows media connect is ok.
Twonky Media server works best for me.
Try all of the above until you find one you like.

[scorp]

jimmyjimjim said:

TRY TVersity is what you mean.
I did, and found it crashing on me like no other application I've seen previously. And to call it resource hungry would be putting it mildly.

Sorry to hear that, i can only presume you had it transcoding media ? It uses FFMpeg as its transcoding engine which is widely known to be the fastest encoder/decoder on the PC. The user intreface is a bit naff though.

Edited by scorp on Thursday 13th March 20:36

[ih8thisname]

-Disregard-

Should learn to read the whole thread in future

Edited by ih8thisname on Thursday 13th March 21:11

[Polarbert]

scorp said:

Get TVersity (i say this all the time)...

I've got that as well mate, I just prefer the official way for some reason. Which isn't usually like me.

[Mattt]

Polarbert said:

scorp said:

Get TVersity (i say this all the time)...

I've got that as well mate, I just prefer the official way for some reason. Which isn't usually like me.

I saw the need for TVersity before the AVI/DivX compatibility was added - but why now?

[jimmyjimjim]

scorp said:

jimmyjimjim said:

TRY TVersity is what you mean.
I did, and found it crashing on me like no other application I've seen previously. And to call it resource hungry would be putting it mildly.

Sorry to hear that, i can only presume you had it transcoding media ? It uses FFMpeg as its transcoding engine which is widely known to be the fastest encoder/decoder on the PC. The user intreface is a bit naff though.

Actually, no. I found a memory leak on it that meant it crashed after about 45 minutes having eaten more than a Gb.
That was if you left it alone. Getting it to do something (transcode divx for example) resulted in a crash every few minutes. Couldn't even be bothered to go through the forums to try to work it out (I suspect the FFMpeg stuff as the main culprit, I've got more codecs installed on this pc than I care to think about), I just said 'sod that' and tried other software instead. Twonky was the least intrusive and most effective for what I wanted to do.

[Mekon]

Is it worth switching to twonky if you've never had any problems for wmp11? The pc I use to share files to the 360 is only used for utorrent, slimserver and wmp11, and if twonky uses less resources than wmp11, them slimserver won't be so clunky. Shame twonky doesn't support the squeezebox - slimserver is a pig when you've got a lot of files.

[scorp]

jimmyjimjim said:

Actually, no. I found a memory leak on it that meant it crashed after about 45 minutes having eaten more than a Gb.
That was if you left it alone. Getting it to do something (transcode divx for example) resulted in a crash every few minutes. Couldn't even be bothered to go through the forums to try to work it out (I suspect the FFMpeg stuff as the main culprit, I've got more codecs installed on this pc than I care to think about), I just said 'sod that' and tried other software instead. Twonky was the least intrusive and most effective for what I wanted to do.

FFMpeg doesn't use external codecs (its all self-contained), maybe that was your problem ? Pain-in-the-arse sorting 3rd party codecs out (saying that you could get a codec called FFDShow with is a FFMpeg based codec). Saying that it could be a fault in the windows-media encoder stuff (the microsoft codec that encodes to wmv)

I'll give Twonky a try later, sounds interesting

Edited by scorp on Friday 14th March 12:09

Edited by scorp on Friday 14th March 12:12

[scorp]

Mattt said:

I saw the need for TVersity before the AVI/DivX compatibility was added - but why now?

It can transcode containers too, so .mkv files will play (they contain the same mpeg4 stream inside).

I've also had some divx that give me the "media not supported" error too so it's not as compatible as say VLC player.

Edited by scorp on Friday 14th March 12:10

[Polarbert]

mkv files are generally high def films aren't they? I know I've copied a few from disc and thats how they've come.

Could try streaming one or two. Bit of bh to move my laptop and plug in the trusty VGA and the stereo cable.