All those with X360 as a Media Centre Extender?

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I'd like some feedback from any of you guys who have the X360 connected to a PC with MCE2005 on it.

Does it have all the same facilities as the MCE computer? I have 3rd party software (like My Movies) on my MCE PC, will this also work?

What about file formats? I've heard mention that there is limited support for filetypes extending beyond WAV, MP3, WMA, WMV. Is this correct?

I'd appreaciate any feedback you've got to offer; good/bad/indifferent whatever.


Cheers
 
WMV is the only video format you can play I believe.

I've had it playing stuff from my PC fine, works a treat. I've only got standard media centre stuf installed, no 3rd party software. Music works very well, just looks like normal media center. Only quibble was it didn't pick up my media library for music and made its own one.

I don't watch many videos anyway, so I'm indifferent to its ability to play .avi / divx etc, but from the wmv I have watched, it streams the picture perfectly fine, and it works perfectly fine for audio.
 
DaveyD said:
WMV is the only video format you can play I believe.

I've had it playing stuff from my PC fine, works a treat. I've only got standard media centre stuf installed, no 3rd party software. Music works very well, just looks like normal media center. Only quibble was it didn't pick up my media library for music and made its own one.

I don't watch many videos anyway, so I'm indifferent to its ability to play .avi / divx etc, but from the wmv I have watched, it streams the picture perfectly fine, and it works perfectly fine for audio.
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As above, its a shame it doesnt play avi / avid / divx files. MP3 playback is good, the main reason i use it on my xbox is for viewing my digital photographs and HD movie clips off the MS website.

To me it feels really smooth and user friendly, spot on if you ask me.

Paul ...
 
Roughly the same as DaveyD here, although I'm sure I've read somewhere it can view AVI files seeing as the built in Windows Movie Creator exports as AVI. I may be wrong though, haven't tried it TBH.

Music all works a treat, looks great if you have album art covers, and the slideshow of your pictures is pretty good too as they kinda grow and fade between each picture.

I can't see it totally taking over from the media centre, but if you're wanting basic functionality of a media system, you shouldn't have any problems.
 
Cheers for the replies, looks like another reason for getting an X360 has gone :o

Any sign of more capabilities being implimented in the future?
 
It plays .mpg movies fine.

I converted my Divx files with the free Videora Xbox 360 convertor & created my own profile to convert the files to 1280x720 mpg and I am quite impressed.

The quality is very good although not as good as the source Divx but this will do nicely until someone comes up with a solution to enable Divx playback.

The 360 can read Divx and does display thumbnails from them but it will not play them, so I guess it won't take much to enable playback for someone that knows how.
 
Just to add My Movies does not work... yet. The guy who wrote it is working on it.

My TV works which is great. I now can stream Sky+ from downstairs MCE to my 360/projector which was going to require too much cabling to get Sky working and that would have just been an RF signal so quality is better too.
 
There is playback support available for AVI/DIVX, there are a few posts on this forum about it. Its not too difficult to implement, I think it involves downloading and installing 3 programs, creating a 1 line text file, and creating a profile in one of the applications.

The instructions on the site seem more complex than it actualy is. It took me about 5 min to implement and get to grips with.
 
Kronologic said:
There is playback support available for AVI/DIVX, there are a few posts on this forum about it. Its not too difficult to implement, I think it involves downloading and installing 3 programs, creating a 1 line text file, and creating a profile in one of the applications.

The instructions on the site seem more complex than it actualy is. It took me about 5 min to implement and get to grips with.
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It's a bit of a rough work-around, though. Not very practical if your PC is in another room :)
 
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