[FONT="Verdana"]I’ve recently spent a lot of money buying an XBOX 360 and a Media Center. One of the big selling points for me was the streaming capabilities of my large MP3’s & Videos collections.

I have set it all up and found the WMV only video streaming and am quite mad. This is typical Microsoft pushing their technologies & formats onto everyone whether they like it or not.

I’m not looking for a DivX -> WMV converter application. Does anyone know of any hardware/software decoders that will seamlessly convert on the fly?[/FONT]

[swanny78]

videolan......never used it but supposed to be good/

[calibos]

Transcode360 now on Beta 3. Do a search on these forums for the transcode 360 threads

Thanks guys... Will research and re-post.

Any more comments, appreciated.

[leeb]

Agreed that the 360 should be able to play divx "out of the box". Nearly all dvd players are now divx certified and a media extender that can't decode divx without extra MCE programs running isn't much of a media player!

I remember hearing that Microsoft would implement divx support if there was sufficient request for it. I think there is!

[W1zz]

Taken from another forum so all thanks go to MACCA6868.

Transcode 360 Beta 2 -- Posted by XanTium on April 1 20:11 EST
Runtime released a new beta version of Transcode 360(info), a tool that, combined with Windows Media Center 2005, will allow you to stream a wide range of video formats to your Xbox 360 and Media Center Extender devices (by transcoding them to high-quality MPEG2):

Transcode 360 Beta 2 has been released, featuring a radically overhauled engine for playback of XviD and DivX (as well as a wide variety of other formats), boasting higher picture quality, lower CPU consumption, faster than real-time transcoding (using FFMPEG under the bonnet); super-tight integration enabling Pause, Skip Forward and Backward, Resume and Restart while transcoding without any need for non-standard user-interface conventions.

http://runtime360.com/blog/ for more info/updates and download.

VLC360 v1.2 -- Posted by XanTium on March 27 12:36 EST
VLC360 is a french application (MCE plugin), similar to Transcode 360(info) and MCE Video Encoder(info), that will encode XViD, DiVX and other video formats on-the-fly so you can stream them from your Windows MediaCenter PC to your Xbox 360.
As the name suggests it, VLC360 is based on VLC/VideoLan and of course it does require Windows MediaCenter 2005 as OS.

http://jortega74.free.fr/forum/index.php?c=4 for more info/updates ...download link below...
http://psptest.free.fr/VLC360/VLC360v1.2.msi


I have personally wirelessly streamed a hdtv-capped xvid of Lost s02e18 using VLC 1.2 with no problems...the dvd.iso support seems a bit troublesome(no audio+quirky interface)though

oh and heres a useful browser too...MCE Browser 2.1

MCEBrowser is a plugin for MS Windows XP Media Center Edition® which allows you surf the internet using a Media Center remote control. The MS Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 operating system is required to use this software.

Some of the features include:

# Browse to home page or favorites
# Navigate favorites subfolders
# Enter a URL to browse to
# Scroll around within web pages
# Highlight and select links within web pages to navigate
# Form support - fill out edit boxes, combo boxes, list boxes, select buttons, etc.
# Mouse and keyboard support
# Zoom in and out for 10-foot style surfing
# Compatible with Media Center Extender devices
# Multilanguage support (English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, German, Spanish, Dutch)

Download link------> http://dw.com.com/redir?pid=10510342...-10510342.html


Other interesting plugins to try out include...
http://www.cbuenger.com/mceweather
http://www.cbuenger.com/mceauction/index.php
http://www.cbuenger.com/mcecontacts/index.php (30-day trial)