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Title: Question about streaming to a 360 Post by: NiX on September 03, 2007, 07:29:58 PM My girlfriend and I just bought her mom and her boyfriend a 360 cause they both liked playing on mine and their DVD player crapped out. They saw that you could stream video on mine and tried to do it with some family videos on theirs, but they're not in WMV format. Is there some kind of special program made specifically for converting other formats to the ones that are supported by the 360?
Title: Re: Question about streaming to a 360 Post by: Trippy on September 03, 2007, 08:48:15 PM Well there's Windows Media Encoder
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/forpros/encoder/default.mspx but that's slow, difficult to use, and crashes a lot if you have lots of DirectShow filters installed (which they probably don't). If they have a video editing package it's possible that program can save in WMV format. Edit: might want to give this a try: http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1002/ Title: Re: Question about streaming to a 360 Post by: squirrel on September 03, 2007, 09:29:12 PM This is actually a pretty major pain in the ass tbh. I have a 360 and a media server hooked up to the home entertainment system (56" DLP, Digital receiver) and the only reason the PC is physically hooked up is because the 360 is a pain to stream to in many cases.
Some people I know swear by the orginal Xbox mod'ed to run media center. http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/ However there are some people working on solutions: TVersity (http://www.tversity.com/) - These guys promise "any content, any time, any where, on any device". I haven't used it yet but a buddy of mine says it works very well. Basically TVersity fools your 360 into thinking it's a Windows Media Server and converts content into 360 acceptable format on the fly. According to their site it supports: Divx/Xvid, MPEG4, H.264, Matroska and many other file formats. If you're just looking for Divx, XVid, AVI streaming then Transcode 360 (http://runtime360.com/projects/transcode-360/transcode-360-download) apparently works fairly well. It essentially converts the video stream into WMV format on the fly so performance does vary based on the host machine. Good Luck. Title: Re: Question about streaming to a 360 Post by: Bunk on September 04, 2007, 06:31:54 AM Yea, I'm in the same boat. Biggest annoyance is that it takes up to two hours to convert an entire movie from DivX to WMV. Don't remember which converter I'm using, I think it cost me $15. Just make sure you have all your codecs on the machine, including AC3, and you should be good with just about any converter.
Title: Re: Question about streaming to a 360 Post by: NiX on September 04, 2007, 07:15:52 AM The TVersity was too much of a pain to setup for them over the phone and they live about 2 hours away. I did some late night googling and came up with the Videora 360 Converter (http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/Xbox360/). The interface was simple to use and it had easy to use sliders for quality and even shows the real time change in conversion from slow to fast while you change these settings. Worked like a charm though I'll probably try TVersity for my own uses. Thanks Trippy! I've been trying to find something to run Matroska files on my 360.
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