<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Metasyntactic:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by XaiaX:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">I don't know if something's broken with my X360 but it won't recognize an external drive plugged into the USB port. USB flash drives work, though. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Has to be FAT. (32 or 16 should be fine)<BR><BR>NTFS no workie, as hfarberg says.<BR><BR>The question, however, is "Why the hell not?!" MS owns NTFS, right? It's not like they'd have to pay a license or anything. They have numerous OSes with support for the thing, not like they don't have experience with it. WTF is my NTFS support? </div></BLOCKQUOTE>I would imagine it has to do with teh consent decree. Only teh windows team can use undocumented windows APIs and formats. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>But isn't the 360 already using NTFS for it's own hard drive?
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I wonder about all the people going through the trouble of streaming this or that. I personally gave up on it since I've been reformatting my machine fairly regularly as I switch back and forth between XP and Vista (I *want* to use Vista, but I just can't get used to it .. keeps rubbing me the wrong way.. but anyway ..). And getting the various bits of software to "just work" was a serious PITA.<BR><BR>It's far, far easier to throw a bunch of movies onto an USB drive and just plug it into the 360. As long as the drive is FAT32, it works really smooth.<BR><BR>Useful, of course, only if you have an external USB drive of some decent size. Or heck, burn the videos onto a DVD. Which defeats the point, some might say, but I've had issues with the 360 playing brand spanking new, just out of the wrapper DVDs but my burned DVDs of digital copies of movies I own works fine. Why do I rip movies I own? Because I have an unholy hate for DVDs with forced intros and animated menus, special features and the rest of the crap. I just want the damn movie.<BR><BR>er, sorry .. rant off.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Vorpal Bunny:<BR><BR>It's far, far easier to throw a bunch of movies onto an USB drive and just plug it into the 360. As long as the drive is FAT32, it works really smooth.<BR><BR> </div></BLOCKQUOTE>Quoted for TRUTH<BR><BR>esp. if you have drives that fit nicely on the shelf, slide right in next to the 360
Can you hook more than one USB disks up to the 360? And/or can you hook USB disks up to a USB hub?<br><br>Pretty sweet storageserver to just have two 750GB (or even 4...) full of your music and movies. 1,5-3TB should be enough for most casual users... -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif --<br><br>:Edit: Only problem being FAT32's inability to deal with 4GB+ files... I have a fair number of HD rips that are about 10-15GB in size, encoded as WMV's with H.264 (IIRC).<br><br>L.
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<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Lestat:<br>Can you hook more than one USB disks up to the 360? And/or can you hook USB disks up to a USB hub?<br><br>Pretty sweet storageserver to just have two 750GB (or even 4...) full of your music and movies. 1,5-3TB should be enough for most casual users... -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif --<br><br>:Edit: Only problem being FAT32's inability to deal with 4GB+ files... I have a fair number of HD rips that are about 10-15GB in size, encoded as WMV's with H.264 (IIRC).<br><br>L. </div>
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<br><br>YES.<br><br>http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/news/usb-hub-confirmed-working-on-xbox-360.htm<br><br> USB is a standardized interface, and as such will accept up to 127 devices with or without a hub*<br><br>and yes, agreed, FAT32 limitation is teh suckage but you can leave those really BIG 4GB+ filez on your computer for streaming<br><br>*<small>Some hubs don't play nice with all devices, depends on brand/manufacturer, YMMV.</small>
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<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Lestat:<br>Can you hook more than one USB disks up to the 360? And/or can you hook USB disks up to a USB hub?<br><br>Pretty sweet storageserver to just have two 750GB (or even 4...) full of your music and movies. 1,5-3TB should be enough for most casual users... -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_wink.gif --<br><br>:Edit: Only problem being FAT32's inability to deal with 4GB+ files... I have a fair number of HD rips that are about 10-15GB in size, encoded as WMV's with H.264 (IIRC).<br><br>L. </div>
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<br><br>YES.<br><br>http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/news/usb-hub-confirmed-working-on-xbox-360.htm<br><br> USB is a standardized interface, and as such will accept up to 127 devices with or without a hub*<br><br>and yes, agreed, FAT32 limitation is teh suckage but you can leave those really BIG 4GB+ filez on your computer for streaming<br><br>*<small>Some hubs don't play nice with all devices, depends on brand/manufacturer, YMMV.</small>
But what about those who have 100+ GB of music stored server side and want to access it on more then just the 360?<br><br>Windows Media Connect was glorious for this, but now it is broke -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif --<br><br>- CG
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Vorpal Bunny:<BR>I wonder about all the people going through the trouble of streaming this or that. I personally gave up on it since I've been reformatting my machine fairly regularly as I switch back and forth between XP and Vista (I *want* to use <BR> </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Well just because YOU do those things regularly doesn't mean everyone else does. I happen to watch movies in various places, either up in my office, or in my theater room where my 360 is, or even while sitting in bed on my laptop. SO...it makes more sense to me to be able to stream stuff from my media server then to drag an external disk around. Or better yet stream from the external plugged into the server so should one want to take their collection elsewhere, it's simple enough to do.<BR><BR>And I haven't had to reformat my server or regular desktop in over several years. My laptop only because I tried Vista out on it before figuring out it didn't and probably never would have complete hardware support(thanks Asus).<BR><BR>Besides, I don't think it's the PITA you make it out to be. I personally had problems because the 360 itself failed to update correctly, so even if I was using your method, I wouldn't have figured it much sooner.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Windows Media Connect was glorious for this, but now it is broke Frown </div></BLOCKQUOTE> QFT.<BR><BR>I still have gotten no satisfaction from anyone in the forums or from Microsoft on resolving the crashing issue with Windows Media Connect.<BR><BR>One thing that might help is deleting your Windows Media Center profile and starting over. Supposedly that's helping some people, though not me.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Happysin:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Windows Media Connect was glorious for this, but now it is broke Frown </div></BLOCKQUOTE> QFT.<BR><BR>I still have gotten no satisfaction from anyone in the forums or from Microsoft on resolving the crashing issue with Windows Media Connect.<BR><BR>One thing that might help is deleting your Windows Media Center profile and starting over. Supposedly that's helping some people, though not me. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I definitely agree that Microsoft needs a UPnP server that "just works". They've got three different ones atm (WMP11, Zune, and WHS), all of which do separate things. Hopefully they'll get a clue and slice this functionality into a separate component in Windows 7 (Windows Media Connect 2!).
The other issue regarding AAC 5.1 LC (outside of Microsofts control) is that I don't know of a single AV receiver that supports decoding it.<BR><BR>This would require Xbox 360 to not only decode AAC 5.1, but also to transcode it to say, DTS 5.1 or AC3 (a.k.a Dolby Digital) 5.1 before sending the audio streams to the AV receiver.<BR><BR>Currently, PS3 decodes AAC 5.1 to AAC 2.1, and 360 can't handle AAC 5.1 decoding at all.<BR><BR>What I would like to see in an Operating System update for both 360 and PS3 is a real-time encoder for "Dolby-Digital Live" or "DTS Interactive", which encodes AAC 5.1 to either Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1 in real-time. That would be so great. Both PS3 and 360 easily have the "leftover" CPU power to do this without flinching.<BR><BR>PS3 already does a lot of fancy audio transcoding for SACD (DSD->LPCM and DSD->DTS 5.1), so I think Sony especially should attack this for their next PS3-Game-OS update, but Microsoft needs to as well for a simple 360 OS update.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Nerfgun:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by KwamiMatrix:<BR>I just installed the Fall update on my 360 Elite. Unfortunately, I am still unable to play Xvid files living in a MOV (.mov) Quicktime container. Did you do anything special? I have only tested with Tversity on Windows thus far. I have yet to try Connect360 or EyeConnect on Mac OS X. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>See my post at the top of this page - no mixing and matching codecs/containers, unfortunately. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>But this is an issue dealing with the UPnP-AV server (computer), and not the client (360). With Tversity on my WinXP system at least, my 360 can see my limited number of Xvid.mov files, but won't play them (all I get is a black screen when I hit play). Using the Zune software doesn't work because it doesn't hook into DirectShow (further meaning that it can't use any of my DirectShow codecs). I have yet to try Connect360 on my Mac OS X server.<BR><BR>Also, the Fall update page states that Mpeg-4 level 2 (which Xvid is) is supported in .mov
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Coleman:<BR>Hostility </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>If the 360 used standard Windows file sharing, then I'd agree with you especially in regards to sharing various streaming between different destinations, but it doesn't. So, whether I throw some movies onto an USB drive that I have sitting around, or end up fooling around with some other bits of software to get it to work the point is it's not the same as accessing your server from your laptop or whatever.
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</blockquote> QFT.<br><br>I still have gotten no satisfaction from anyone in the forums or from Microsoft on resolving the crashing issue with Windows Media Connect.<br><br>One thing that might help is deleting your Windows Media Center profile and starting over. Supposedly that's helping some people, though not me. </div>
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<br><br>Oh? So you mean it's actually supposed to work? @_@.<br><br>I don't use it for video or anything, just music.<br><br>However I'd like to happily report that FreeNAS works. It even has an Xbox 360 Profile in it's UPnP settings.<br><br>For those that don't know, FreeNAS is a BSD based live-cd that allows you to create a free file server with an old PC filled with hard-drives. The OS is stored on the CD, settings are stored on a floppy disk, the disks are all for storage. You can use Windows File Sharing (SMB), NFS, SSH, RSYNCD, AFP, and 360 to get at the data -- View image here: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/forum/smilies/biggrin.gif --<br><br>- CG<br><br>EDIT: I take it back. While I can connect to my FreeNAS box and view files, it doesn't seen to be working as snappy as Windows Media Connect did. Now that may be because the NAS box is a PII 400/256MB of RAM vs a Dual PIII 1Ghz with 1.2GB of RAM, I'm not sure.<br><br>Either way, why did they have to break it -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif --, it was working just file. All I was doing was sharing my music to my 360, jerks.
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</blockquote> QFT.<br><br>I still have gotten no satisfaction from anyone in the forums or from Microsoft on resolving the crashing issue with Windows Media Connect.<br><br>One thing that might help is deleting your Windows Media Center profile and starting over. Supposedly that's helping some people, though not me. </div>
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<br><br>Oh? So you mean it's actually supposed to work? @_@.<br><br>I don't use it for video or anything, just music.<br><br>However I'd like to happily report that FreeNAS works. It even has an Xbox 360 Profile in it's UPnP settings.<br><br>For those that don't know, FreeNAS is a BSD based live-cd that allows you to create a free file server with an old PC filled with hard-drives. The OS is stored on the CD, settings are stored on a floppy disk, the disks are all for storage. You can use Windows File Sharing (SMB), NFS, SSH, RSYNCD, AFP, and 360 to get at the data -- View image here: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/forum/smilies/biggrin.gif --<br><br>- CG<br><br>EDIT: I take it back. While I can connect to my FreeNAS box and view files, it doesn't seen to be working as snappy as Windows Media Connect did. Now that may be because the NAS box is a PII 400/256MB of RAM vs a Dual PIII 1Ghz with 1.2GB of RAM, I'm not sure.<br><br>Either way, why did they have to break it -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif --, it was working just file. All I was doing was sharing my music to my 360, jerks.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by KwamiMatrix:<BR><BR>What I would like to see in an Operating System update for both 360 and PS3 is a real-time encoder for "Dolby-Digital Live" or "DTS Interactive", which encodes AAC 5.1 to either Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1 in real-time. That would be so great. Both PS3 and 360 easily have the "leftover" CPU power to do this without flinching. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>I'm pretty sure the 360 does this already. On HD-DVDs that have the Dolby Digital Plus tracks, the 360 will transcode it to Dolby Digital <i>or</i> DTS (your choice).
zomg pwn.<BR><BR>I reinstalled Windows Media Connect 2.0, re-created my shares, and it works! MWHAHAHA!<BR><BR>For some reason I only have some of the content, but I think that's because it's indexing it, or something.<BR><BR>Either way, progress!<BR><BR>- CG
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Vorpal Bunny:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Coleman:<BR>Hostility </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>Stuff </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I'm sorry you saw my reply as hostility, it wasn't meant to be at all. <BR><BR>The point was your statement declared getting streaming to work to be difficult and not worth the effort, in particular because of problems you yourself introduce. <BR><BR>I disagree with it being the effort, not on your point of the streaming rather then windows shares, but more because there is an implication that having a centralized point to access content from is worth the effort even if you access it a few different ways. Which also is not necessarily a bad thing(having flexibility in connect options).
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<br><br>That definitely wouldn't be a problem for the 360. It already does transcoding to DD5.1 for 5.1 channel WMA 10 audio tracks in WMV files. It's just decoding AAC 5.1 that's an issue, the transcoding capability is already there.<br><br>What was annoying was before the Spring update it would transcode 2ch WMA audio (no MP4 support at all back then) to 5.1ch DD as well with audio only in the front right and front left. So my receiver was getting a 5.1ch stream, which was a problem since I couldn't figure out a way to make it do ProLogic decoding on a 5.1ch source - once it sensed that the input signal was 5.1ch it seemed to disable those options. -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif --<br><br>What I ended up doing for ProLogic sources that I was encoding to WMV back then was upmixing it to 5.1 before the encode with FFDShow's ProLogic decoder and encoding it to 5.1ch WMA.<br><br>Happily, Microsoft figured out with the Spring update that when a stereo file was being played they should just output a 2ch stream, and I went to MP4 with AVC and 2ch (either straight or a ProLogicII downmix) AAC for everything where I didn't care about having the "perfect" original discrete surround sound track since x264 is both faster and higher quality than the freely available Windows Media Encoder stuff.<br><br>Bolero: Is DTS only available for HD-DVD playback? I don't recall a setting to enable it for games or other video playback, but then I don't think I've looked at those settings since before the Spring update.
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<div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by KwamiMatrix:<br>The other issue regarding AAC 5.1 LC (outside of Microsofts control) is that I don't know of a single AV receiver that supports decoding it.<br><br>This would require Xbox 360 to not only decode AAC 5.1, but also to transcode it to say, DTS 5.1 or AC3 (a.k.a Dolby Digital) 5.1 before sending the audio streams to the AV receiver.<br><br>Currently, PS3 decodes AAC 5.1 to AAC 2.1, and 360 can't handle AAC 5.1 decoding at all.<br><br>What I would like to see in an Operating System update for both 360 and PS3 is a real-time encoder for "Dolby-Digital Live" or "DTS Interactive", which encodes AAC 5.1 to either Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1 in real-time. That would be so great. Both PS3 and 360 easily have the "leftover" CPU power to do this without flinching.<br><br>PS3 already does a lot of fancy audio transcoding for SACD (DSD->LPCM and DSD->DTS 5.1), so I think Sony especially should attack this for their next PS3-Game-OS update, but Microsoft needs to as well for a simple 360 OS update. </div>
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<br><br>That definitely wouldn't be a problem for the 360. It already does transcoding to DD5.1 for 5.1 channel WMA 10 audio tracks in WMV files. It's just decoding AAC 5.1 that's an issue, the transcoding capability is already there.<br><br>What was annoying was before the Spring update it would transcode 2ch WMA audio (no MP4 support at all back then) to 5.1ch DD as well with audio only in the front right and front left. So my receiver was getting a 5.1ch stream, which was a problem since I couldn't figure out a way to make it do ProLogic decoding on a 5.1ch source - once it sensed that the input signal was 5.1ch it seemed to disable those options. -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_rolleyes.gif --<br><br>What I ended up doing for ProLogic sources that I was encoding to WMV back then was upmixing it to 5.1 before the encode with FFDShow's ProLogic decoder and encoding it to 5.1ch WMA.<br><br>Happily, Microsoft figured out with the Spring update that when a stereo file was being played they should just output a 2ch stream, and I went to MP4 with AVC and 2ch (either straight or a ProLogicII downmix) AAC for everything where I didn't care about having the "perfect" original discrete surround sound track since x264 is both faster and higher quality than the freely available Windows Media Encoder stuff.<br><br>Bolero: Is DTS only available for HD-DVD playback? I don't recall a setting to enable it for games or other video playback, but then I don't think I've looked at those settings since before the Spring update.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Bolero:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by KwamiMatrix:<BR><BR>What I would like to see in an Operating System update for both 360 and PS3 is a real-time encoder for "Dolby-Digital Live" or "DTS Interactive", which encodes AAC 5.1 to either Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1 in real-time. That would be so great. Both PS3 and 360 easily have the "leftover" CPU power to do this without flinching. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>I'm pretty sure the 360 does this already. On HD-DVDs that have the Dolby Digital Plus tracks, the 360 will transcode it to Dolby Digital <I>or</I> DTS (your choice). </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Firstly, 360's HD-DVD player is a completely different software application than 360's UPnP-AV player. Secondly, are you sure that HD-DVD doesn't contain multiple surround sound streams? I'd double check the HD-DVD jewl case...
Meh, ushare 1.1 is still broken. Not a great surprise, but still lame.<BR><BR>fuppes doesn't even want to compile on Fedora 8, so that's not much of a win, either.<BR><BR>x360mediaserve, of course, won't do video. Boo.<BR><BR>twonky isn't free, and performance was bad last time I tried it.<BR><BR>Any more options?
3 questions:<BR><BR><B>first</B>, is there a way to set my 360 to play my videos (DIVX, ect..) full screen by default? they all play with giant black bars on all 4 sides, and i have to manually change the display settings on the pop up control bar each time, which is annoying. in case it matters, i am running an Elite in 1080p over DVI and the stuff is being streamed via WMP 11. i dont have any problems with video content like trailers and game videos downloaded from XBLM.<BR><BR><B>second</B>, is Windows Media Connect confirmed to work the DIVX and XVID .avi files? i tried it and had no luck, so i installed WMP 11, with mixed results. after uninstalling then installing updated codecs and rebooting, my stuff seems to play fine with WMP...should i be able to switch back to WMC, or are the codecs themselves more limited going that route?<BR><BR><B>third</B>, should i be able to play a DVD burned with several DIVX files (for instance, 5 movies)? i tried putting in a disc this morning, and it said "Mixed Media Disc" on the title bar at the bottom of the screen, but i didn't see any option or couldn't figure out how to launch the disc.
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<br><br>Yes I'm totally going to go buy Windows XP just for Windows Media Play 11, especially when I'm currently saving up to buy two Macs in the next 12 months -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --.<br><br>Not wanting to start a piracy debate or anything, but just saying, WMP11 is not an option for some.<br><br>Ok! I'm happy to report that Windows Media Connect is back to it's lovely working self. I reinstalled it and readded all the folder shares as mentioned above. All the tracks weren't showing up at first, so I figured it was indexing them. Sure enough I let the computer sit there for a few hours and I just checked and there's just under 15,000 tracks listed! Including my m3u Playlists. Rock!<br><br>- CG
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<br><br>Yes I'm totally going to go buy Windows XP just for Windows Media Play 11, especially when I'm currently saving up to buy two Macs in the next 12 months -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_smile.gif --.<br><br>Not wanting to start a piracy debate or anything, but just saying, WMP11 is not an option for some.<br><br>Ok! I'm happy to report that Windows Media Connect is back to it's lovely working self. I reinstalled it and readded all the folder shares as mentioned above. All the tracks weren't showing up at first, so I figured it was indexing them. Sure enough I let the computer sit there for a few hours and I just checked and there's just under 15,000 tracks listed! Including my m3u Playlists. Rock!<br><br>- CG
thanks for the heads up on reading a disc, i will try that when i get home in the morning.<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Ok! I'm happy to report that Windows Media Connect is back to it's lovely working self. I reinstalled it and readded all the folder shares as mentioned above. All the tracks weren't showing up at first, so I figured it was indexing them. Sure enough I let the computer sit there for a few hours and I just checked and there's just under 15,000 tracks listed! Including my m3u Playlists. Rock! </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>video too, or just music?
Does anyone have any tips for getting WMP11 to stream my .divx files? I'm not talking about divx encoded .avi files, those stream and play fine without issue. I'm reffering to the few files I have with the actual .divx extension. If I rename them to .avi WMP11 will see them and share them out, but they seem to skip when playing. I can burn them to disc and they play fine through the dashboard, but I can't seem to get the WMP library to pick them up and share them out for streaming.<BR><BR>On one of my pc's they show up in the library under Other rather than Video or Music or what have you, on another, they do show up in Video, but the 360 doesn't see any files in the respective folders so it looks like WMP isn't sharing them out. <BR><BR>I've heard there is a reg hack for getting WMP to share out MP4 files, is there something similar for .DIVX files?<BR><BR>For full disclosure, both pc's are running Vista Ultimate, WMP11, ffdshow and the real DivX codec are installed.<BR><BR>Other than these 4 files, the entire experience has been great. It took a few years to equal the functionality of XBMC (well, I know, not really equal, but my 360 doesn't choke on my 720p xvid files), but now that it's finally here I'm a happy camper.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by erwos:<BR>Windows Media Connect is deprecated. You should use WMP11 instead. </div></BLOCKQUOTE> WMP11 doesn't offer the interface that Media Center uses, and that is touted so much in Vista Ultimate/Home Premium.<BR><BR>Are you saying MS has really deprecated their primary "5 feet away" user interface?
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<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by erwos:<BR>twonky isn't free, and performance was bad last time I tried it. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I just found this software and am trying it out, since WMP11 won't share stuff that's on a network.<BR><BR>It seems fast so far, but it's in the process of indexing my 20k MP3's, so it might be slow with really large libraries. That doesn't matter too much, the interface sucks for music anyway, I was primarily interested in getting access to the 300GB of shows I have on the server, and for that it seems to work fine.<BR><BR>Have you tried the 4.4 trial? Maybe you should give it a go, it only takes like 5 minutes to install and configure and worked instantly for me.<BR><BR>L.
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</blockquote> Oooooh, ok. I get it now. Well, Windows Media Center is the one that is constantly crapping out on me and now freezing Vista <i>and</i> the 360. Poop. At least it works through just WMP11.
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</blockquote> Oooooh, ok. I get it now. Well, Windows Media Center is the one that is constantly crapping out on me and now freezing Vista <i>and</i> the 360. Poop. At least it works through just WMP11.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by vertigo_phreeze:<BR>thanks for the heads up on reading a disc, i will try that when i get home in the morning.<BR><BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Ok! I'm happy to report that Windows Media Connect is back to it's lovely working self. I reinstalled it and readded all the folder shares as mentioned above. All the tracks weren't showing up at first, so I figured it was indexing them. Sure enough I let the computer sit there for a few hours and I just checked and there's just under 15,000 tracks listed! Including my m3u Playlists. Rock! </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>video too, or just music? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Both! I had to download the free "OPtional Media Update" from XBL, once done I played the Futurama movie, some Top Gear episodes, and some Smallville episodes. All worked lovely, right from their original files.
So it seems like you guys are streaming stuff from your PC to your 360 to your TV. What about just hooking in external drives? Does the 360 (and the PS3 for that matter) stream content fast enough over a usb 2.0 connection?
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by hoyle1911:<BR>So it seems like you guys are streaming stuff from your PC to your 360 to your TV. What about just hooking in external drives? Does the 360 (and the PS3 for that matter) stream content fast enough over a usb 2.0 connection? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I'm sure I'm a moron, but... could you hook the Sexbox to an external NAS via USB? That way I could move my files to the NAS and store them at 1GB and then have them connected to my Xbox for viewing. Would that work?
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content"> quote:<BR> Originally posted by hoyle1911:<BR> So it seems like you guys are streaming stuff from your PC to your 360 to your TV. What about just hooking in external drives? Does the 360 (and the PS3 for that matter) stream content fast enough over a usb 2.0 connection? <BR><BR><BR><BR>I'm sure I'm a moron, but... could you hook the Sexbox to an external NAS via USB? That way I could move my files to the NAS and store them at 1GB and then have them connected to my Xbox for viewing. Would that work? </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>To answer both questions...<BR><BR>USB 2.0 = fast enough, I've streamed 1080p content without issue. I mean, the HD DVD drive is usb as well.<BR><BR>NAS .. sure, but it would have to be FAT32. It doesn't support connecting to NTFS drives, which limits maximum file size and makes large partitions tricky to setup.
Found something called fat32format that claims to be able to support up to 2TB. Of course, since the block size is like 32k you'll likely waste a bunch of space if you have smaller files scattered about. But, likely not a problem if you're just doing giant files.<BR><BR>I haven't actually tried this, just found the page when looking for a way about the fat32 32GB limits in XP.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Found something called fat32format that claims to be able to support up to 2TB. Of course, since the block size is like 32k you'll likely waste a bunch of space if you have smaller files scattered about. But, likely not a problem if you're just doing giant files.<BR><BR>I haven't actually tried this, just found the page when looking for a way about the fat32 32GB limits in XP. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Yeah, even linux can format fat32 above 32gb, its just MS operating systems that don't let you.
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<br><br>I've been having issues ever since leopard came out -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif --<br><br>I've tried everything I can think of including flipping every type of sharing on and off and turning the firewall on and off and even manually opening ports. the 360s can see "the ocho-connect360" but when I try to connect it fails and asks me to test connection.<br><br>I sent an email off to nullriver a week ago but haven't heard back
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<br><br>I've been having issues ever since leopard came out -- View image here: http://episteme.meincmagazine.com/groupee_common/emoticons/icon_frown.gif --<br><br>I've tried everything I can think of including flipping every type of sharing on and off and turning the firewall on and off and even manually opening ports. the 360s can see "the ocho-connect360" but when I try to connect it fails and asks me to test connection.<br><br>I sent an email off to nullriver a week ago but haven't heard back
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by KwamiMatrix:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Bolero:<BR><BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by KwamiMatrix:<BR><BR>What I would like to see in an Operating System update for both 360 and PS3 is a real-time encoder for "Dolby-Digital Live" or "DTS Interactive", which encodes AAC 5.1 to either Dolby Digital 5.1 or DTS 5.1 in real-time. That would be so great. Both PS3 and 360 easily have the "leftover" CPU power to do this without flinching. </div></BLOCKQUOTE>I'm pretty sure the 360 does this already. On HD-DVDs that have the Dolby Digital Plus tracks, the 360 will transcode it to Dolby Digital <I>or</I> DTS (your choice). </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>Firstly, 360's HD-DVD player is a completely different software application than 360's UPnP-AV player. Secondly, are you sure that HD-DVD doesn't contain multiple surround sound streams? I'd double check the HD-DVD jewl case... </div></BLOCKQUOTE>Firstly, if the player is capable of doing it, it is only a matter of scrounging up the right code. You're making an artificial barrier there. The 360 does have the capability to do it.<BR><BR>Secondly, the Xbox360 cannot output Dolby Digital Plus streams. Right now, it doesn't have that capability, so Microsoft included transcoding capability for downconverting it to either regular Dolby Digital or DTS. While playing an HD-DVD, pull up the "display" and select sound. It will give you the option of how to downconvert the higher res sound stream into a lower res one.<BR><BR>See this AVSForum posting for more information<BR><BR>Long story short: The 360 <I>is</I> capable of transcoding one form of sound stream into another, so there's no reason, save not having the codec, that the 360 shouldn't be able to convert AAC5.1 to DTS or DD. It's merely a matter of will on Microsoft's part.<BR><BR>edit: And as you can see from the AVSForum posting, the 360 has had this capability for a year now. You put a little edge in your comment about me not knowing my HD-DVD discs, but do you even know your 360?
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by Lestat:<BR>I just found this software and am trying it out, since WMP11 won't share stuff that's on a network. </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR>I knew I was missing something:<BR><BR>http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/player/faq/sharing.mspx#q20_17<BR><BR>Basically, create the registry key HKLM\Software\Microsoft\MediaPlayer\Preferences\HME\EnableRemoteContentSharing and set the DWORD value to 1. Then WMP11 will share content located on file shares as long as permissions are set correctly. Yes, I have this working correctly right now, with all my media on my Linux server, accessed via Samba, and shared by WMP11 on my Vista PC to my Xbox 360.
<BLOCKQUOTE class="ip-ubbcode-quote"><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-title">quote:</div><div class="ip-ubbcode-quote-content">Originally posted by PerfectCr:<BR>New version of Connect 360 is out! (for Mac OS X) </div></BLOCKQUOTE><BR><BR>I'm using this now and it rocks. I was going to use a fusion XP machine and MP11, but honestly, connect360 is great. I had no problem with paying the devs $20. Well worth it.<BR><BR>While we're talking Mac, I've seen several posts touting just throwing your movies on a FAT32 formatted drive. While I know it's problematic for windows users, I'd just like to note that the xbox supports HFS formatted volumes (Mac format) and you won't have any of that pesky 4GB file size limitation. If you can't give up your PC, run a hackintosh or buy a cheap Mac, there are applications for read\write HFS on PCs.<BR><BR>Anyways, loving the new media functions and love, love, love, Connect360!<BR><BR>Gatcha~
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