Zeus
01-15-2006, 01:07 PM
Mperfect have made an article that shows how to stream DivX (and XviD) movies to an XBox 360 using a Media Center. for the picky people, it doesn't actually stream DivX ... it converts to WMV on the fly to stream.
This article shows how to stream DivX (and XviD) movies to an XBox 360 using a Media Center. for the picky people, it doesn't actually stream DivX ... it converts to WMV on the fly to stream. the core process for accomplishing this is taken from a thread found on the XBox forums : Playing DivX movies without having to Re-encode, through media centre. this works fine, but has the disadvantage that you have to manually set up the encoding process on your Media Center and then move over to the XBox 360 to watch it. so all this article really does is provide an MCE interface so you can control everything from your XBox 360 being used as an MCE Extender. i.e. its for lazy people. it was also an excuse for me to write a ListMaker AddIn for MCE ... which i hadn't done yet. not to mention my MCE setup doesnt have a TV Tuner and only has 32 megs of video RAM, so i cannot play video on it at all :(
<center><a href="http://www.maxconsole.net/content_img/360divxstream1.jpg" target="_blank"><img height="150" width="225" src="http://www.maxconsole.net/content_img/360divxstream1.jpg" border="0"></center></a>
have to say that the limited edition remote absolutely sucks. bought the Universal Remote and its pretty crappy too, but with backlit keys and more buttons. my old MCE remote can work with the X360 too, and it seems to work slightly better. the wireless controllers are much more reliable. i'm thinking that MS should make a remote that uses the same tech as the wireless controllers.
View guide: <a href="http://www.mperfect.net/mceDivX360/" target="_blank">mperfect.net</a>
This article shows how to stream DivX (and XviD) movies to an XBox 360 using a Media Center. for the picky people, it doesn't actually stream DivX ... it converts to WMV on the fly to stream. the core process for accomplishing this is taken from a thread found on the XBox forums : Playing DivX movies without having to Re-encode, through media centre. this works fine, but has the disadvantage that you have to manually set up the encoding process on your Media Center and then move over to the XBox 360 to watch it. so all this article really does is provide an MCE interface so you can control everything from your XBox 360 being used as an MCE Extender. i.e. its for lazy people. it was also an excuse for me to write a ListMaker AddIn for MCE ... which i hadn't done yet. not to mention my MCE setup doesnt have a TV Tuner and only has 32 megs of video RAM, so i cannot play video on it at all :(
<center><a href="http://www.maxconsole.net/content_img/360divxstream1.jpg" target="_blank"><img height="150" width="225" src="http://www.maxconsole.net/content_img/360divxstream1.jpg" border="0"></center></a>
have to say that the limited edition remote absolutely sucks. bought the Universal Remote and its pretty crappy too, but with backlit keys and more buttons. my old MCE remote can work with the X360 too, and it seems to work slightly better. the wireless controllers are much more reliable. i'm thinking that MS should make a remote that uses the same tech as the wireless controllers.
View guide: <a href="http://www.mperfect.net/mceDivX360/" target="_blank">mperfect.net</a>