Vista Media Center : Loving DVD Library

HEADRAT

HEADRAT

HEADRAT

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Hi,

I love the DVD Library in Vista:-

dvd.jpg



To enable regedit and change to:-

[HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\Curre*ntVersion\Media
Center\Settings\DvdSettings] "ShowGallery"="Gallery")

I currently have 116 online DVD on my 2TB server, just need to rip some more ;)

XML files for loads of films can be found here:-

http://www.dvdxml.com/


Cheers

HEADRAT

PS I hate the fact that DVD's won't stream to my XBOX360 :mad:
 
HEADRAT said:
PS I hate the fact that DVD's won't stream to my XBOX360 :mad:
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What you mean, I was hoping this was the case.
Are we only talking ripped DVD's because of the copyright etc........

:confused:
 
Nope it just won't work, MS have disabled this functionality :(, the only way to do it is either transcode or other hacks.

HEADRAT
 
HEADRAT said:
Nope it just won't work, MS have disabled this functionality :(, the only way to do it is either transcode or other hacks.

HEADRAT
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Whats the point of it then, what video can you stream

Just thought its prob only .wmv files
 
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Yeah but there shouldn't really be any need to transcode and stream, the 360 could easily decode a native DVD MPEG2 stream.

Energize said:
Surely there has to be a way to enable h.264 support?
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Well I manged to get it to play .ts files which are HD MPEG2 but h.264 will need to be transcoded without support from MS.

HEADRAT
 
I think transcode360 is the only way I will be able to play AVI files on my X360.

You would think that if I installed the necessary codecs so divx, avi etc.......played on windows media player it would play on the X360.

Also another option would be to convert avi to wmv, is the best converter WinAVI.

:confused:
 
squiffy said:
Available in Media Portal too
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excluding tv card support, xbmc on an xbox ***** on that, it needs a complete facelift, i used it over a year ago and then installed it again a few weeks ago and i didnt notice any changes at all. Still slow and buggy and still looks like your looking through folders. A lot of ppl just want their media center to play their movies and music and i dont think mediaportal has any advantage in that area atm when plugins like this are released for vista mce:

http://mobilewares.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!78533A1A2E078194!183.entry

Hopefully the ppl working on mediaportal start to work on the non tvengine parts soon.


btw has their being any registry hacks to get avi's to show up in the dvd library yet?
 
Hi there I was running Windows Media Center Edition... I just had to install HDTVPump & set up MCE to see the 360, and mpeg2 transport streams .ts worked fine. I assume thats the files you get from the ripped dvds?

Now using vista atm so not tried the same but I assume it works, but really most other files need either encoding or transcoding... which annoys me so so so much.
 
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Hmm well I've used HDPump for *.ts files as stated above, the problem is that a ripped VOB structure has many files, not just one big monolithic file.

You can rip a DVD off into one big VOB and then rename it to .mpg and then the Xbox will play it but it's not very reliable.

I wonder if it would be any more reliable changing it to a *.ts file extension that the HDPump does the work?

HEADRAT
 
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