Can I talk about Xbox Media Center here?

[Marcos]

It blew me away when i eventually tried it, its a great solution for those that dont like watching media through a PC monitor

just cant believe how well it handles everything you can chuck at it

[Nick]

That's why I like my Xbox 360 so much... cos I can stream content that previously had to remain on my PC for viewing.

But now the PS3 can do it to so it WILL come down to who has the best, most intuitive interface.

[MikeAkehurst]

Can the 360 stream Xvid yet? I haven't been keeping myself up to date with what it can do.

[Nick]

Xploder do a Media Streaming transcoding kit:

http://www.xploder.net/xbox-360/prod...-Xbox-360-.htm

Only niggles with it are that it takes an age for the playback to start as the PC starts encoding and you can't rewind or anything as just the current part of the file you're viewing is encoded... so it's a case of 'play' or 'stop'.

Still, it's pretty good and saves have to re-encode everything which would muller your drive space.

[danroyle]

i.ve got a 40gb hard drive lying around for my xbox as i want to media centre it for the missus but am lost after that on what to do

[Agent]

Xploder do a Media Streaming transcoding kit:

http://www.xploder.net/xbox-360/prod...-Xbox-360-.htm

Only niggles with it are that it takes an age for the playback to start as the PC starts encoding and you can't rewind or anything as just the current part of the file you're viewing is encoded... so it's a case of 'play' or 'stop'.

Still, it's pretty good and saves have to re-encode everything which would muller your drive space.

Why pay?

Transcode 360 will probably do a better job, and its free

Well worth the download

[Marcos]

That's why I like my Xbox 360 so much... cos I can stream content that previously had to remain on my PC for viewing.

But now the PS3 can do it to so it WILL come down to who has the best, most intuitive interface.

The PS3 can do media centre?

[patstew]

I wish the media functionality on the 360 was even half as good as xbox media center. IMO microsoft would have done themselves a favor to port it over instead.

[Nick]

The PS3 can do media centre?

It can't do media center per se, it's more like media streaming.

So you can't use the PS3 as an extender of a Media Cneter or Vista PC but you can stream video, music and pictures from such a PC through the PS3.

It's all to do with DNLA support which is in Vista and Windows Media Player 11...

[Marcos]

I wish the media functionality on the 360 was even half as good as xbox media center. IMO microsoft would have done themselves a favor to port it over instead.

Yeah, the way i look at it, i dont think Ms or sony could have come up with something as good as what the XBMC guys did.

Also, i've got it all working now, its soooo goood , crystal xbox looks great too