Clarification: Where Exactely Are We Now?, Would like to establish what we can currently accomplish Options

[Terdinglage]

OK, I took an hour or two to read through everything in this forum, and am still a little sketchy with all this information. I didn't want to interrupt this forum with noob talk, but I would really like all this clarified. Here's what I have gathered is possible to this point

1. Ripping an exact copy of the current Xbox HD onto an SATA 2.5" HD at 20GB, regardless of whether or not your HD is bigger, and replacing the old HD. This hard drive can utilize the normal Xbox 360 HD functions (music, pictures, gamesaves). This is essentially pointless to do at this point, as it does nothing that the standard HD cant do.

2. You can hook up any 2.5" HD to the USB port and play music and pictures. This too is rather pointless, as you really dont need that much space if you cant put videos on it.

If I'm wrong in any of this, someone please correct me. What I would like to know is if there is ANY possible way to at this point to load videos onto a HD from your PC and play them on the 360. The other major thing I would really like clarified is whether you can get the Xbox 360 to recognize a hard drive plugged into the USB port in addition to the standard one plugged into the SATA port.

Thanks in advance for any help, and once again I'm sorry to nooblify this forum, but I didn't know where else to look for these answers.

[Drunkn_Munky]

1. Ripping an exact copy of the current Xbox HD onto an SATA 2.5" HD at 20GB, regardless of whether or not your HD is bigger, and replacing the old HD. This hard drive can utilize the normal Xbox 360 HD functions (music, pictures, gamesaves). This is essentially pointless to do at this point, as it does nothing that the standard HD cant do.

There's no confirmation that this is even possible, AFAIK. I think the data may be some how locked to the harddrive.

2. You can hook up any 2.5" HD to the USB port and play music and pictures. This too is rather pointless, as you really dont need that much space if you cant put videos on it.

You can hook up just about ANY hdd or memory device through the USB port. You can read/open images, music and videos but not game saves and you cannot write to it from your Xbox.

If I'm wrong in any of this, someone please correct me. What I would like to know is if there is ANY possible way to at this point to load videos onto a HD from your PC and play them on the 360.

You can put them on a HDD and hook it up to your Xbox through the USB port. You can then watch them from your Xbox. Alternatively you can use Windows media center to watch from your Xbox but with them still on your PC.

The other major thing I would really like clarified is whether you can get the Xbox 360 to recognize a hard drive plugged into the USB port in addition to the standard one plugged into the SATA port.

Yes it can.

This post has been edited by Drunkn_Munky: Feb 1 2006, 03:48 PM

[BlueCop]

you can't play videos with the 360 via usb harddrives. only computers with windows media center can enable the xbox to play videos and only videos on the host pc. there is a xex(360 executable) which is sent to the 360 from the pc when you choose media center option through the dashboard and it has all the code for decoding wmv and mpeg-2. so the 360 doesn't even contain the code to decode videos.

also you can't image the sata Harddrive to another sata drive and have the xbox recognize it. there is a little signature written on the drive that is based on the drives model and serial that haven't been broken or understood completely.

[Terdinglage]

Thanks bluecop, that was very helpful, I think ill settle with making an ipod dock built into the 360, especially since I already have my media center up and running with my HDTV.

[Angerwound]

you can't play videos with the 360 via usb harddrives. only computers with windows media center can enable the xbox to play videos and only videos on the host pc. there is a xex(360 executable) which is sent to the 360 from the pc when you choose media center option through the dashboard and it has all the code for decoding wmv and mpeg-2. so the 360 doesn't even contain the code to decode videos.

also you can't image the sata Harddrive to another sata drive and have the xbox recognize it. there is a little signature written on the drive that is based on the drives model and serial that haven't been broken or understood completely.

It doesn't require the media center to playback downloaded video packages which are HDWMV files. Therefore, the console does know how to interpret the video, however its limited to locations and packages.

[Terdinglage]

In conclusion, we wont be able to play our own videos off the HD until we completely figure out the file structure and whatever else we need to know for the Xbox 360 HD?

[bullitt464]

we're wondering what "Exactely" is

[bonevichio]

we're wondering what "Exactely" is

LOL, it's called a typo!