Streaming media from PC

Eoin

Does anyone use this feature much? I already have a Pinnacle Show Center 200, which isn't bad at all, but if the xbox is good at streaming content, then it's a bit redundant, so I may as well flog it on eBay.

Epitaph

I wouldn't if I were you. The 360 can't handle certain types of avi encodings at the moment, not sure if they'll ever bother to rectify this or support the encodings. Not too big a deal.

What annoys me more is it not recognising Ogg Vorbis music files off the bat :mad: Oh well, off to teh Google web to look for answers.

meanpeoplesuck

I give a big thumbs up to TVersity.

I haven't found a file yet that it wouldn't play (stream) onto my 360. If you try and stream over a file that the 360 doesn't usually support, it just transcodes it on the fly so that it'll play.

No lag at all, you wouldn't know that the content isn't on the 360's own hard drive except for a 2 second "buffering" which it displays at the start of a video now and again ( I think it's usually with a video that has never been played before.)

Once you set it up you can close the program (you can even close it from the taskbar) and then as long as the PC is on the 360 will be able to stream content from it. You only need to open the program again if you wanna make changes to the library etc. Plus its free.

Edit : I'm streaming DVD quality divx files and music, I don't know how it would perform with HD content.

Branoic

I've been streaming just using the basic set up of having Windows Media Player open on the PC. It had been working fine until recently, but now for some reason the playback stops every two minutes or so for buffering, which is really annoying and pretty unwatchable.

May look into this TVersity thingy if that would solve the problem.

zAbbo

I use connect360 to stream music/video from my macbook to the xbox, very handy and has played all my xvids so far.

I've got a MCE pc as well, which works well for pulling down content that way too, but personally i prefer connect360.

Ph3n0m

yeah my main gripe is buffering of streaming avi files over my wireless network - the buffering takes ages - even though the connection is classed as "excellent"

meanpeoplesuck

Buffering on TVersity is almost non-existent in my experience, and when it does buffer it's for literally 2 seconds at the very start.

I should say though that my PC and 360 are both connected to the same router via ethernet cables, don't know if that is giving me lower buffer times or anything.