Stream DivX movies to your XBox 360 using MediaCenter

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



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: mperfect.net

cool find.. i'll stick with XBMC until i have a reason to switch..

Most Media Centre PC's are now being designed to sit in the living room anyway. There'll be no need for a 360 extender funtionality for me. Id prefer an interface to the 360 from a standard media centre PC. (ie. a play 360 game interface that can switch on the 360, and switch to the right channel, so you can start playing).

Hi,

Can someone give me a detailed way to stream dvix files to xbox360. Thanks, its the usual codec errors.
Cheers

Transcode360.

Linkage

Download, install, stream virtually any video file to your 360 without having to mess around setting up each transocode first. Once installed, open Media Center on your 360, select a video (e.g. xvid avi), press [Info] on your remote, select "More", press "OK" on "Trascode", watch video.

what do you do if you do not have a remote for your xbox360

Google is your friend:

360 Controller Media Center mappings

Ta for that,

Your decoder works pretty well,

Cheers