managed to get the xbox to talk to the pc

I used the latest variant of zune ironically

and i found the cause of the problem

my firewall

streamed a movie no probs.. in vanilla xp (a standard mpeg)

not tried audio yet..

now for the easy questions.

If i change the routers ssis? name to say hub101, then all devices should look for that hub101 name to connect, and i can remove any of the old names ive called my previous set ups

I now know how there shown under the xbox- by the name of the "media" entity folders you want to call your songs, (zune - wmp -etc) this i think was what half the problem was, so ive called each media entity by what programme its from. ie one called zune one called wmp

now the million dollar question.


how do i get my firewall working so it will allow the xbox to see the pc.

its Comodo firewall pro btw

my experience of port forwarding is sh*t, and the highly regarded "pf" site doesn't work either, (now that may be because it doesn't like firefox as a browser) it says enter data into the boxes, but does nothing


any help would be really appreciated

mart

 

Is your firewall the windows one ? if so you should get the option to allow file sharing just tick it

 

I can get my xbox to see my mp3's but wont see my video folder !
Also added some new mp3's and it wont see those either ! not to impressed with zune

 

Just put some rules & ports into the router....


seems to be ok () ive just streamed my first movie..

strangely enough the divx file wouldnt play, but the AVI file would.


any ideas how i get div x to up and run?

Mart


(just doing some renaming to see if that helps)

 

YOU NEED TO DOWNLOAD THE OPTIONAL SUPPORT FROM THE MARKETPLACE .... oops caps lock

but it promptem me when I loaded the first divx up

 

still got some issues with the firewall & divx stuff, will have a dig around and see what else i can find

i know why the divx files wouldntr appear....

i,m off to have a further go later today


Mart

 

Why wouldn't the divx files appear?

 

because it was named as a mpeg extension, not a divx

going to recheck and retry later today


Mart

 

still wont play divx files under windows media centre streamed to xbox


going to try it under WMP & zune later on



Mart

 

One last time . . .

You CANNOT natively play Divx files through the Media Centre interface on the 360;

You CAN play Divx through the Media Centre interface on the 360 using Transcode360 or similar;

You CAN natively play Divx through the dashboard (Media blade) on the 360 via Windows Media Players library.

Divx/Xvid files should have a .avi file extension.

 

hmmm

When you say media centre, are you referring to WMCE the OS media centre/ or windows media player?, the standard XP player.

The file I had was allready an avi, and played fine under WMCE OS, from the xbox end and will play fine from the media blade (non wmce)

I wasn't aware that avi files were divx, i thought divx files ended with the extension .divx, so if your right, all .avi files are allready divx.

can you tell me why there not full screen, but fit in a smaller widescreen window with a letterbox allround, or is it just the d/l i have?

I took the .avi file, and ran it through divx doctor, and it made a divx file, but wmce wouldnt see it, or the media blade.

WMP however will play the .divx .mpeg & .avi versions of the same file.

now thats assuming that they actually have been encoded using these formats, (how do i tell)?


Zune wont find any vid files, so thats going to go.

And i still need to sort my sodding firewall


mart

 

Media Centre Extender on the 360, which requires Media Centre (appropriate Vista version or Windows XP MCE) on the PC.

Generally the .divx extension is not used any more. They are usually named .avi now. Although, not all avi's are divx/xvid AVI just stands for Audio Video Interleave and can encompass many types of compression, Mpeg4 being just one.

You just need to change the display mode to fullscreen or letterbox rather than 'native' when playing the file through the 360.

Try running the file through GSpot to see what codecs a file uses.

See here for supported formats through Zune.

Zune.net | User's Guide - Zune Audio and Video Formats

Have a read of this too, as it answers many questions.

Xbox.com | System Use - Xbox 360 Video Playback FAQ

 

DJ Dunk, the Yoda of Scoobynet

Couldn't have made it any clearer

 

I,ll have a read tonight, just started the decorating at the mo




<Mart