Okay geeks and nerds, time once again to make yourself useful.
I was a lucky birthday boy and got myself an XBOX 360 for my birthday this week. As I’m used to using my old chipped XBOX as a media center, I was looking forward to using the new one in the same way (while I move the old box to my bedroom). I want to stream music and video from my PC down to the XBOX. I’ve got music working okay but video is a no go. The XBOX can find the PC, can see the video directory, can see the folders underneath it, but can’t see the actual files.
Then I read that the 360 will only stream WMV videos. Jesus H Christ. Of course, everything I want to stream down is in DIVX or XVID. So I heard about this app called Tversity which will transcode DIVX into WMV on the fly. I’ve got it installed and the 360 can see it okay, it’s streaming music via Tversity okay, but the 360 says it can’t find any videos still.
Last night in SL a few people told me it might be because Vista Business doesn’t have Windows Media Center and I’ll need to upgrade to Ultimate, but if that’s the case, why can the 360 stream my music okay? Doesn’t make sense to me.
Anyway… any ideas? Prove to me your geek mad skillz.
Oh and… should I get it chipped? Or not? Thoughts?
GRRR… your #%$kin CAPTCHA system sucks – it wiped my message! If this doesn’t work, you can keep your non-xvid-playing setup, as you have bigger problems!
[breathe in… breathe out…]
There are two ways of playing videos from your PC on your 360 – using Windows Media Player or Tversity, or using Media Center. You’re not using the Media Center method, so has nothing to do with Vista Business not having it.
I assume you’ve added a folder with videos in it into Tversity already (see the sharing tab). Check to see that Tversity can see them – the Library tab -> Video -> My Videos -> All Videos. If there’s nothing there, go to the Settings tab -> Media Library, then click on Reset Library to force a rescan.
Try telling Tversity explictly that you’re using a 360 by going to Settings tab -> General -> Media Playback Device and selecting Xbox 360 from the dropdown list. Click save at the bottom of the page afterwards.
Now try it on your 360. Removing the computer connection (System blade -> Computers) first, then reconnecting it may also help clear the cache and force it to redownload the data from your PC.
The guide here may also help – http://www.tweaktown.com/articles/1002/print/index.html.
Alternatively, if you have enough patience (and it could take a lot), Microsoft may be releasing divx/xvid support on it, after they did it on their new media center extenders.
And it’s probably worth waiting before getting it chipped, as if you got old stock (before the billion dollar bandaid solution), the 360 may play up and Microsoft may not like you returning a chipped one. Oh, and keep in mind people have had their consoles blocked from Xbox Live as it was detected as being chipped.