Best way to transfer videos to xbox 360 from Mac?

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Big-Mac-Please

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Hello All,

I've got a new xbox 250gb and kinect setup and I'm trying to find the best way to transfer videos to the xbox.

I've spent ages trailing google but it doesn't seem to be searching for what I ask it to.

It keeps finding results for converting files and bolds converting all the time when thats not even in the search criteria! I'm getting a little peed off with it!

All the articles seem to be ancient and I'm at a loss, I don't want to keep using my memory stick and transferring them so please any help is welcome.

Thanks!
BigMac
 
Thanks for that, I have that installed but it seems to ignore half the videos and only show a few. I think its setup for the old formats the xbox could handle and not the new ones.

I've not tried it but will that let me then save them onto the hard drive?

Thats what I did with my PS3 so I don't have to trail through all the DVDs.
 
I'm not sure if it will let you save them to the console, it seems to be the Xbox equivalent of PS3 Media Server which I think is just for streaming. Can't you use a USB drive to copy them over? If you want them on the console permanently then you only need to transfer them once and you're asking for a very specific piece of software which I don't think exists for OS X. :)
 
AFAIK you can't copy videos onto the xbox's hdd.

I just use an external 500GB USB powered drive plugged into the xbox for all my media.

Or you can stream them over the network.
 
HeX said:
AFAIK you can't copy videos onto the xbox's hdd.

I just use an external 500GB USB powered drive plugged into the xbox for all my media.
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That's what I used to do and found it fine for my needs. I don't understand the requirement for storing the content on the console.

HeX said:
Or you can stream them over the network.
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This is what I'd recommend for the OP but he seems to have a problem with some of his movies not playing. I'm not sure that the 360 plays MKV files so that might be one of the problems. The software I linked him to is supposed to convert movies on the fly but he could try converting them beforehand.
 
Thanks for the replies.

To try and clarify, the videos are a supported format as I've watched one on the xbox last night using a stick but I didn't try and copy it over onto the drive.

I will be very upset with Microsoft if you can't save videos onto the drive, thats a real let down. What a waste getting the 250gb model.

Storing all my videos on my PS3 was ideal, saved changing and hunting through DVDs.

I'll try this connect360 again and see if all the videos appear on the xbox and try to copy some from a USB stick. I hope I can or I'll have a stroppy wife to deal with!

The xbox has the better game choices and Kinect but seems to be lacking in the entertainment side of things ... :(
 
I only did a quick Google, but everything I read suggests you can't plug a USB in and just copy the songs to the console. Looks like you're gonna need to set up connect360 or stick a load of movies and music on an external HDD and plug that in, you'd think they would allow you to store stuff on the hard drive but it doesn't look like it! There are probably ways around it but I expect they will involve things that might get you banned from XBL.
 
Thanks Killswitch,

This really sounds like a let down here, I hope I can get it sharing seamlessly from my iMac or I won't be happy and my mrs will be right annoyed. The two things it had to do was have a BBC iPlayer and store films on it and so far neither!

I'm genuinely shocked it doesn't I assumed with the 250gb hard drive and with the PS3 doing it and the sky functions of the 360 it would do this out of the box.
 
I think that they're bringing iPlayer to the 360 but this might help you: http://www.eurogamer.net/forum_thread_posts.php?thread_id=110220

That information might be outdated now, also those instructions are for the Windows version of iPlayer but you can probably do the same with the OS X version. I think the PS3 is a much better device for media, the 360 seems to be very locked down which is a bit silly imo.

It's also much harder for us Apple users to get things working smoothly. Hopefully you won't have too many problems getting your stuff to stream across, otherwise it may be worth picking up a copy of Windows and running Parallels or Bootcamp. :)
 
Well the connect360 looked like it was working as it showed all the videos last night but then it decided to stop working half way through watching something.

Looks like I'm going to have to get an external hard drive and add all the films to that. What a load of rubbish! A perfectly good 250gb hard drive in the thing I can't use!!!!
 
Big-Mac-Please said:
Well the connect360 looked like it was working as it showed all the videos last night but then it decided to stop working half way through watching something.

Looks like I'm going to have to get an external hard drive and add all the films to that. What a load of rubbish! A perfectly good 250gb hard drive in the thing I can't use!!!!
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:(

With your requirements it sounds like what you really need is a PS3.
 
Hmm indeed thats what I've just got rid of though for a new xbox!

The kinect side and games for the xbox is much better but I'm shocked how poor the xbox is compared to the PS3 for media. We've used the PS3 slim since them came out and it was faultless with media, just lacked games and Kinect.

I hadn't played a game on it since Avatar came out :eek:
 
Big-Mac-Please said:
Hmm indeed thats what I've just got rid of though for a new xbox!

The kinect side and games for the xbox is much better but I'm shocked how poor the xbox is compared to the PS3 for media. We've used the PS3 slim since them came out and it was faultless with media, just lacked games and Kinect.

I hadn't played a game on it since Avatar came out :eek:
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You should try some of the exclusives, the 360 is good but there's some great games on the PS3 too! I guess it's a bit late now though... :p
 
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