I have seen this question around , on how will the X360 connect to your PC and Share the Compatible data. I heard some say that you must have a Windows Media Center PC , thats false , you can use any Windows XP based PC.

Facts Sheet



And if you have all the updates including SP2 on WinXP Pro or Home editions , you might notice an Icon called Windows Media Connect located in your Control Panel.







So i guess this will also be used with XBox360 and be able to share your data with the console.

I think you could use that or depending on how the xbox will interface with the pc you might be able to pulll using explorer(if USB is an option). I'm sure that it will use etho to transfer the files. Hell M$ might even give us a special program for us to use, and I bet they will try to limit the types of files we can transfer with said program(one week after we would get this app, we would figure out how to work around the file restrictions).

Brilliant! Cheers for the info? I was get worried. I have lots of data but nowhere to put it on the xbox 360, no I can finally stream video on the xbox 360 wirelessly.

even if it was only MediaCenter PCs, we'd just get an XP patch, but thanks for clearing that up.

File Restrictions?

I'd really like to see them try!

thank you for the excellent post, now I do not have to look up this question, you answered it for me!

Thanks for the information, I was wondering about that, if it was true.

Damn, my small pets are going crazy...

Hope I don't have to upgrade to SP2 to use this, love my SP1. But it's a great idea in my opinion, guess it saves you setting up XBMC. But good information there, cheers.

Holy Damn, Dalpura.. I used to use that avatar.. for this site.. but it was faster.

Does anybody know if there is a way to make WMC recognize the xbox as a DMR?

They might include software for a new program compatible with any OS. Like an FTP program for Windows Media Player?

Hey All,
Some if not Most SP2 users may not have this, as i dont. but sure as hell, M$ does.
Available for download here: http://www.MS.com/downloads/details...&displaylang=en

Regards
Jack

Thanks for that V8.

For those who find the link doesnt work just copy and paste this right click and go to Copy Link Location then after you paste it into your browser replace the MS with MS.

lol replace MS with MICROS0FT

Microsoft.

I was right baby , woo!

http://www.tomshardware.com/hardnews/20050816_174728.html

Anyone know what kind of file types we can use? I have a lot of video, but I have a lot of stuff thats Divx. I dont want to have to re-encode everything to get it to work..

Aren't you all going to enjoy transcoding ALL of your content to WMA & WMV. 'Cuz my money is on Bill making you do that so that the DRM hooks are inserted.

And none of what I've seen in this thread or linked to in this thread states otherwise.

The 'playsforsure' shit mentioned by Toms Hardware would point to some sort of transconding to get all thos Xvid-Divx-GordianKnot'd-TsnuamiFilterPack'd moovies to play for Joe Six Pack & Granny Smith without calls to Redmond-on-the-Ganges offshore tech support line.

wow!
makes u think!

Gotta love MS, doesnt install on XP-64...

Question is what formats will it allow ? Divx Xvid etc..

thanks

Jacks

Ok, I've got a couple questions:

1. Do you think that since the original Xbox controllers were basically a USB format, (just with a different physical plug), would we be able to use an Xbox->USB converter cable and use them on the Xbox360? (since the wired 360 controllers are USB as well) ?

2. Does anybody know if they've announced if there's a way to transfer data from an original Xbox to an Xbox360? I was thinking that since they said you could use the USB ports to put files onto the 360, maybe you could copy your saved games and profiles onto a flash drive from an original Xbox and then put them on the 360. What do you think?

NO and NO

Both of those have been confirmed as definite NOs from MS

Meaning NO there wont be an officially supported way and NO they wont allow 3rd party products to do those things either (both legally and through hardware security).

Sorry to burst your bubble but it's true

Where has this been confirmed by M$? I've seen a lot of speculation, but I haven't seen anything from M$ directly. Where did you get this info? I'm not questioning your correctness, I'm just wondering where you got your info.

Various Interviews, the XS news page, Major Nelson's Blog... It's all old news and If I see something more than 5 or so places I stop keeping track of where it came from (should be considered common knowledge at that point).

I should also note that these are NEGATIVES against the console, meaning that MS doesn't just go around boasting about it like they do with some new XBL features.

In most cases they were asked outright in interviews and then 4 or 5 news sources would report on it.

No kidding it's a negative! That's lame. They were so close to getting it right.

I would imagine their methods are purely based on $$

No transfer of save games makes new 360 games more appealing than old Xbox games

No 3rd party controllers or Xbox controller adapters means you have to buy new controllers
more money for MS

There is bound to be someone here that already has a 360 that could answer that question. Speculatively, I would expect it to support playback of only the formats that Windows Media Player plays natively without any codec plug-ins. I am certainly expecting that the 360 will play not even a tenth of the range of formats that a chipped XBox running XBMC will play.

Anyone tell us what audio/video formats they've tried yet, and which ones have succeeded/failed ?

I s there any one out there that has an xbox 360 that can answer this now???????

hey....ya know how xbmc can can play everything in 1080i... will Xbox 360 be able to do this also?

it might be only MEDIA CENTER EDITION as i have pcs running xp pro sp2 , xp home sp2 and MCE 2005 and MCE is the only one with the windows update patch that says update for connectivity with xbox360.

it has to be mce 2005 I think, thats what I have running and I was able to connect to the xbox, but now I can no longer connect, even after reinstalling ghe connection porgram.

Hey, folks. I did a bit of digging this mornin' and the outlook is so/so. Got this report from MS website:

Q. What audio and video file formats are supported by Media Center Extender devices?

A. Media Center Extender devices support a number of audio and video file formats for play back through TV displays and home entertainment systems.

Audio file formats supported:

Windows Media Audio Standard 7 through 9
WMA standard audio may be Windows Media DRM-protected
Windows Media Audio Pro and WMA Lossless
MP3
Playback of other audio formats may be enabled by installing a compatible DirectShow decoder on the Media Center PC
Video file formats supported:

Windows Media Video 9 main profile

WMA Standard audio
Max resolution 720x480
Max bit-rate 4Mbps
WMV content may be Windows Media DRM-protected
MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 standard definition

MPEG-1 layers I and II audio
Standard Definition DVR_MS (Recorded TV) at all quality settings (Fair through Best)

It says that other audio formats may be enabled by installing a compatible directshow...perhaps the same holds true for Video? I sure as hell ain't rippin all my avi's and .bins to wmv. Bastards. Even if this is the case...somebody's bound to make a hack for it. The .bins can be mounted with daemon, solving that particular problem. Still not as handy as XBMC, but...

Full page here:

http://www.MS.com/windowsxp/mediace...tender/faq.mspx

I can confirm that my xbox360 cant play ANY videofile shared with windows media connect. It seems that it can only handle pictures and MP3's. Im very disapointed, and longing for a mod-chip to save the day. Im also missing native shoutcast/streaming web radio support.. and im not really impressed by the one game I could get a hold of either.. Call of duty 2.

In case there are people out there who haven't noticed: The pictures you have on your PC can also be set as background images on the Xbox 360. Once you have the files shared with your 360 simply go to Media>Pictures, choose the PC, digital camera, etc.. Find the picture you want to use and highlight it, then press X. It will automatically "refresh" and be your background, but when you restart the Xbox it will take a few seconds to load the image up.

Hope I'm not too late in noticing this feature.

Here's a terrible quality picture of my 360 dashboard.

thanks for the info

if you try to play video on the 360 from your computer (XP Home SP2 confirmed) it will not work. If you go into the dashboard, where it says media, and you can choose from Music, Photos, Video....etc. If you read the side panel, it clearly says, Video- Watch Movie Trailers and other videos on your **Xbox 360's Hard Drive.** But with Music and Photo's you have the option to log into a computer.

With MCE 2005, can I play my home-authored DVD files (*.ifo & *.vob) on the 360?

i don't know how or where topost this but i want to know if there's a way i can get fightnight 3 Ntsc to play on PAL.Sorry if it's wrong thread....

great post. very informational. been seeing this question in different forums and thread but dont have a clear overview of the process. thanks for the tips.

I have been using this http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/Xbox360/ to convert my video divx xvid etc. for it to stream from a media center to the xbox. there is also some info on the side on how to get you DVDs to it also

ummmm... I was able to stream music and pictures using Windows XP but I was NOT able to stream video and trust me my attempts were persistent. Once I reformatted and installed a copy of Windows XP Media Center edition it worked no problem.

I just got this set up yesterday, and its making Need For Speed more fun. No more rubbish music

Anyone know how to get the snes emulator to work through media center and on your 360

Hi to all you guys who have taken the time to supply such an extensive and mind bogling amount of information for me to read!

However, I am not technical in anyway what-so-ever and only use the 360 for games.

I can see the potential for being able to stream all my media (music and phots) to my xbox and would like to know how to do it.

I spent roughly 45minutes on the phone to xbox tech support and am still unable to connect, here is some information you might need to properly help me:

Im running a windows XP home edition with SP2
I have the latest version of Media Connect
I have added TCPs 2869 and 10243 and UDP 1900, 10280 - 10284 (inc) to my firewall exception list.
I am using a BT voyager 205 router, BT tell me that if Im conecting to XBOX live and my PC is connecting to the internet, then there is no reason why these two shouldn't link the PC to 360.
I am running the latest version of .net framework with the SP
I havw sworn at both PC and 360 and threatened them with 3 hammers of various size!
Please help me, I am now getting to the point where I am actually thinking of letting it win!

I would really appreciate any help you can give me as I am about to lse it big style!

Thanking you in advance

D

yep exactally the same problem...i think it might be a router issue either with the firmware version or the UPnP settings


any help would be greatly appreciated

When using media connect to stream music to my 360, I've encountered an annoying issue. Media connect allows you to share individual folders of music, but the 360 will only see the music files directly in that folder and not in subfolders beneath it. Personally like a lot of people I have all my music organized in subfolders. I'm certainly not going to share the hundereds of subfolders individually...so does anyone know a way around this?

ive had no problems with xp

How do I make a play list? I got songs that don't show up in "albums" only under "artist" and i want to only play certan ones. I put them in the same folder on the PC but it didn't help.

hi i only just got my xbox 360 and i am completely oblivious to how to use it to its full potential so i have a couple of questions.

1) how do i stream video's music and pics onto my 360 because i do not have windows media center.

2)is there anyway i can play sega,snes emulators on my xbox 360 coz i heard u can.

1) You HAVE to have Windows Media Center Edition, you can also use the BETA version (free download)
of Windows Vista.

2) Sega no! through Windows Media Center, think some people are working on an SNES emulator, you
can probably find more information about it in one of the forums here.