Do any consoles (eg Xbox 360) allow you to play media from a PC?

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If I have avis stored on my PC, do any consoles allow you to play/strsm them from the PC onto your TV?
 
360 does although I hear the ps3 is a much better media centre unit

However in the streaming stakes

You just need to run the latest Windows Media Player, choose what you want to share and what with (in this case the 360)

Then connect the 360 via wireless or ethernet and DADA the music is there


On the ps3 you could use the internal hardrive to store music on the unit itself, although you can do this on the 360 the ps3's drive can be upgraded to a much higher capacity so you can store video etc


Or google TVersity
 
all of them can do it.

360 will do it natively and the PS3 can as well.

You can also do it on the Wii but you need a 3rd party program that essential turns it into a flash file and then points you to a web page, so i think you need to buy the wii browsing channel as well
 
da_mic_1530 said:
360 does although I hear the ps3 is a much better media centre unit

However in the streaming stakes

You just need to run the latest Windows Media Player, choose what you want to share and what with (in this case the 360)

Then connect the 360 via wireless or ethernet and DADA the music is there


On the ps3 you could use the internal hardrive to store music on the unit itself, although you can do this on the 360 the ps3's drive can be upgraded to a much higher capacity so you can store video etc


Or google TVersity
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You can use an external drive to store music/movies on the 360 too.
 
What's the codec support like? I had a play around with my 360 just playing back video files on my home server and it seemed to only be picking up my DivX AVI's.

Does the 360/PS3 support slightly more exotic formats like H264 MKV's or MP4's? In terms of music, whats the support like for .ogg or FLAC?
 
The 360 and PS3 both offer good support for streaming multimedia from a PC.

However, you need to look at your own setup/needs to see which suits best

Codec wise, they are about equal, both now support most flavours of DivX/MP4/H264 etc, either streamed or from externally connected HDD's. Both certainly don't support all the exotic blends of subtitles and mutlichannel audio in a lot of video formats.

Both can use TVserity to stream various media, transcoding the ones they don't natively support. This sounds great, but for HD stuff, transcoding on the fly isn't a real option if you want decent HD quality, but SD stuff transcoded an a reasonable PC is pretty good.

The PS3 has a BR drive built in, which is a good source for media, and you can buy PLAY TV for TV on it as well!

The 360 connects natively to Windows Media Centre , and gives you the same look/feel of Windows media centre on the PC, and if your PC has a TV card, you get full control/streaming of that to the 360.

I think that's about it. when it comes to audio support, as long as you stick to MP3's, then both do it all..

That's all I can think of!
 
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