Comments on: Microsoft Windows Vista Media Center – Video on Media Center Extenders

By: nukedout

nukedout — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 20:37:33 +0000

Aha, i have a better solution for all of you, how about forgetting M$’s stupid media center and using a typical wireless link from your computer to your router to your 360, then you can play your media files using the xbox 360′s dashboard player which will play all of your files (update required for avi & xvid) for those of you that this is too technical for, you simply need to make your computer show up under my videos on the xbox 360′s dashboard (just like when you use a flash drive)

By: Roderic Dohleman

Roderic Dohleman — Wed, 16 Jan 2008 00:19:10 +0000

I was told that the next release of Xbox 360 software will include support for DiVix and other formats. However, for now we have to suffer using the MEDIA PC Streaming option to perform video playback.

By: i.nconspicuo.us

i.nconspicuo.us — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:57:39 +0000

Haven’t found a solution yet… I’m thinking that I should have just run a longer HDMI cable as well. Please keep us posted if you do find a solution.

Good luck!

By: GreenMan

GreenMan — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 21:17:59 +0000

Does this mean that you have to be at the media center pc to set up the stream in advance of every time you want to watch a particular file? Sort of defeats the purpose – if that’s the case I should have just run a longer HDMI cable and forgot about the whole extender thing… please tell me this is not the answer!!

By: i.nconspicuo.us

i.nconspicuo.us — Tue, 22 May 2007 16:45:51 +0000

Really? WMV streams? I have had some MPG files work (not all of them though) and I haven’t tried to play a WMV file yet. I haven’t been able to get AVI files to play at all.

There’s got to be a better way than to convert & stream on the fly…

By: simon

simon — Tue, 22 May 2007 15:12:17 +0000

the xbox 360 will only play wmv streams. You need transcode360 or videora and a beefy machine as the software app will have to transcode the stream from an mpeg/avi to a wmv stream on the fly.
Nice of M$ to lock you in to a microsoft format huh ?