Anyone actually use Tversity and a 360?

Ultra_Extreme

Ultra_Extreme

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Hey guys, just wondering if anyone has actually gotten tversity to work? im stumped i install it, access through MCE, folders etc all show up but nothing plays, i mean nothing. Cant access streaming media cant play local video, menus seem all, broken, just wondering if its me of if its just, well, a bit naff. Was looking for an alternate to transcode360 and mce as it wont play some files. info?
 
Guess it's just you as when I've used it in the past it's worked flawlessly.

Dunno what else to say, I don't use it much so can't really offer any advice but when I do use it, it works fine.
 
I never got TVersity to play anything properly either, so now I just stick either with WMP11 sharing or putting stuff directly onto removable media or HDD (PS3).

Haven't got any real need to use it anyway, everything through WMP11 is fine.
 
lol im a dick. Just realised you dont run it from mce, thats why its broke. You find the server in videos on the dashboard. Managed to play youtube xplay and watch CNN. This will come into its own as more dedicated live channels come on stream.
 
works fine here on vista 64 shame it cant transcode 1080p :(

make sure mediaserver is passing through your firewall all uninstall all your codecs and install the k-lite pack.
 
marv said:
works fine here on vista 64 shame it cant transcode 1080p :(
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Unfortunately that's a hardware limitation, from what i've heard quad core CPUs tend to be able to transcode HD media on the fly.

The best way to get tversity working is to uninstall all codecs and more importantly codec packs then reinstall each individual codec required separately. Tversity hates codec packs and random codecs it doesn't know how to use, so removing all the old ones and installing just the essentials gets it working flawlessly for me.
 
Streeteh said:
Unfortunately that's a hardware limitation, from what i've heard quad core CPUs tend to be able to transcode HD media on the fly.
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i have a quad core my system should easily be able to transcode 1080p on a fly its doesnt even max my cpu. ive tried all options i can think of trying but i cannot get it to transcode 1080p without it keep buffering 720p is fine. :(

Been trying to work this out for awile now but as of yet it wont work. i managed to transcode 1 1080p movie ok but others still buffer, im sure its a software limitation.
 
Is this over a ethernet cable or wireless? 720p nearly maxxes out my wireless connection so i can't see 1080p being able to transfer without serious bufferage.
 
Ultra_Extreme said:
the ethernet/network bandwidth is hardly going to influence the transcode process is, it. Lets use our brains kids!
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I never said it was. What i was saying was that his CPU wasn't being maxed out transcoding and therefore fully capable of doing it on the fly, hence the less than 100% load, but the wireless bandwidth wasn't able to transfer full 1080p in real-time, hence the buffering. I know 720p comes close to maxing out my wireless so it's not unfeasible to assume 1080p would exceed it causing the aforementioned buffering.

After marv had explained his problem in full i now realize it is a software limitation, but on what information i was going by i don't think my theory was too outlandish.
 
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Streeteh said:
I never said it was. What i was saying was that his CPU wasn't being maxed out transcoding and therefore fully capable of doing it on the fly, hence the less than 100% load, but the wireless bandwidth wasn't able to transfer full 1080p in real-time, hence the buffering. I know 720p comes close to maxing out my wireless so it's not unfeasible to assume 1080p would exceed it causing the aforementioned buffering.

After marv had explained his problem in full i now realize it is a software limitation, but on what information i was going by i don't think my theory was too outlandish.
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My point is, transcoding is done at the PC, so since a 360 on 100mbs ethernet is fully capable of streaming a native WMV in 1080p, why would it have more trouble streaming an mkv or whatever once transcode had converted it to WMV.

The PC takes your video, locally, and converts it, again locally, into WMV (or is it mpeg? cant remember) which the 360 plays in realtime. Thus as long as the 360 CAN stream a 1080p feed there is no way that transcoding can affect that.

The answer to your question, as already stated is that the software and codecs therin do not fully make use of multi core multi threaded processing. Things will improve in time.
 
Ultra_Extreme said:
My point is, transcoding is done at the PC, so since a 360 on 100mbs ethernet is fully capable of streaming a native WMV in 1080p, why would it have more trouble streaming an mkv or whatever once transcode had converted it to WMV.

The PC takes your video, locally, and converts it, again locally, into WMV (or is it mpeg? cant remember) which the 360 plays in realtime. Thus as long as the 360 CAN stream a 1080p feed there is no way that transcoding can affect that.

The answer to your question, as already stated is that the software and codecs therin do not fully make use of multi core multi threaded processing. Things will improve in time.
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I fully understand the process of transcoding, i think what you missed is the fact that i asked whether marv was using wireless or ethernet as wireless could possibly be incapable of transferring the amount of data needed to stream 1080p media.

When he explained that he was using ethernet i then understood that it is a limitation of the software.
 
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