360: Streaming Movies without WMCE

[Guest 5983]

Is there a way of streaming movies to my 360 without using windows media center edition.

BTW - I don't want to hack my xbox.

Any help appreciated.

[john316]

Nope far as I know of

[Ono]

Can the 360 play most of the popular codecs?

[hookbeak]

Originally Posted by Ono

Can the 360 play most of the popular codecs?

Almost none of them. Unless you call WMV popular.

[john316]

You need a combination of WMCE and something like Transcode 360 to enable Divx and other codecs playback.

[Guest 2285]

This does a pretty damn good job of transcoding them on the fly though www.runtime360.com - Transcode 360

[Guest 48118]

You still need Media Centre though so the answer to this thread is no.

[Guest 36806]

Originally Posted by hookbeak

Almost none of them. Unless you call WMV popular.

had a quick go on MCE and it seemed to play everything i tried, most of which weren't WMV

[kanedaa]

Media Centre will play anything providing you have the right codecs. But using the 360 as a Media Centre Extender restricts you to WMV unless you use the transcoders mentioned above.

[Guest 36806]

Originally Posted by kanedaa

Media Centre will play anything providing you have the right codecs. But using the 360 as a Media Centre Extender restricts you to WMV unless you use the transcoders mentioned above.

as i said above i am sure i played back files that aren't WMV, for example i have a DEC2000T freeview USB thing, the software that comes with that records in MPEG and i watched a file from that through the 360, maybe i was dreaming, i'll try it again tonight

[john316]

MPEG and WMV play fine through the normal Extender bit

[Guest 48416]

AVI doesn't work unless you use transcode360.

[Guest 1110]

Does Vista not have some kind of MCE section? Or is that not available in the Betas?

[Guest 892]

Originally Posted by llololloy

Does Vista not have some kind of MCE section? Or is that not available in the Betas?

It is available but locked out to usa machines only