Video through my 360

Smilingoat

so i want to use windows media center with my 360 so i can watch the shows that i have on my hardrive in my living room.

so what file types can i send? does MPEG work?

im really not looking forward to converting all of these (about 120Gb) most is in .avi and its not working...

fforde

I am not too sure specifically what formats it supports but I know it DOES NOT support xvid or divx formats which is what virtually anything you download from the internet is encoded in.

Just an FYI AVI is actually a wrapper and not actually a video format. Kind of like if you were mailed a book. The cardboard box is the wrapper but the actual format of the media is a book. It came in the box, but your ability to read the book has nothing to do with the box. Same thing with AVIs. So you may have some AVI files that are encoded in mpeg1 format that will play on your 360, but other AVI files that use the xvid codec that WONT work on your 360.

If you are thinking about trying to convert your stuff, I would start at afterdawn.com. They have a lot of good video related tutorials there.

Axim

i'd think the only way this would work is through a media center pc but i could never get the retarded thing to work so i'm not sure. otherwise ya with the dashboard update converting shit to .wmv is the only option.. (borrow an xbox1? haha)

Smilingoat

tnx for the help

Foomy

If your using media center edition and you said you are you can use this to stream video encoded in a wide variety of codecs to your 360

http://runtime360.com/