Xbox 360 with Connect360 (OS X).. am I doing this right?

Jasoco

The other day I decided to try out using my Xbox 360 to play my H.264 ripped DVD's because I was fed up a bit with my AppleTV and its crappy connection and the new update being all full (and awful) of purchasing and renting movies instead of just viewing them.

I am using a Mac. I don't have Windows Media Server. I am using Connect 360 to serve the files.

They play great. Look just as good if not better. And I don't get the horrible connection drops and rebuffering like I did with my AppleTV.

My question is, is there any way to view the movies categorized? All I get is a single list, a single list with 700 videos. Well, 699. All my TV episodes and movies are mushed into one list.

At least with my AppleTV my movies were in Movies and my TV shows were separated.

Why can't I browse the files like the file structure they're in on the HD? I have them all where they logically should be. Movies in Movies, TV in TV under their own series and season. But on the Xbox they're all sorted into one long looooong list not separated at all. Disappointing. But still better than the AppleTV.

Is this an Xbox limitation, or is it Connect360's job to tell the Xbox how the lists should be displayed.

I am thinking it's Connect360. On the TV I can see two "folders". The first says "iTunes movies" and displays everything in one long list including my Podcasts. Then the folder that says "Movie files" (Or whatever) that contains every video actually on the HD. (My Media HD does not have my Podcasts on it. So they only show up in iTunes. Logical.)

So am I just lost? Am I not going to be able to categorize the files without actually doing some power renaming just to make the list more arranged? It would still be one long list. Music shows up as Artists and Albums. Photos show up as Albums, but movies just show up all as one list.

ThrustinJ

I think that's how it's built. It's not going to read the whole file structure of the Mac's harddrive. Putting movies in iPhoto or iTunes in playlists might help.

I actually have a question about sound quality. I've had this software for awhile and the sound is pretty bad. It's clean, just not full. It sounds more like 60kpbs than 192kbps. My iPod hooked up via USB sounds fine. Bandwidth throttling? Do people get that with MediaCenter PCs?