Connecting my rig to the 360

Schizophonic · 19 Feb 2008 at 21:40

I just managed to put my PC and Xbox together. I have loads of videos i would like to stream onto my xbox. I'm currently using WMP11 and adding music/video files onto the shared folder but its not picking all of the video files.

I know back in December there was an update for the 360 to play DivX videos but how do i get my 360 to play more videos. Or is it a case of me converting my files into DivX?

yaboy · 20 Feb 2008 at 02:34

Im sure your pc requires the right codecs for them to be added to libairy

Try downloading the K-Lite Mega Codec pack then re-adding them.

Schizophonic · 21 Feb 2008 at 21:40

I have done downloaded all the main codecs, some of them import and some of them dont. Any idea how i get my Xbox to pick up the files?

GreenMint · 21 Feb 2008 at 21:54

What you need is Windows Media Connect, works a treat, although now discontinued.

MSN/E-Mail in trust if you want ti sending over (freeware)

Schizophonic · 21 Feb 2008 at 22:11

add you on msn dude

SentineL-X · 21 Feb 2008 at 23:37

Have you not shared them properly through Windows Media player?

Kreeeee · 21 Feb 2008 at 23:42

TimBrad said:
What you need is Windows Media Connect, works a treat, although now discontinued.

MSN/E-Mail in trust if you want ti sending over (freeware)

It's discontinued because WMP11 does it better and much simpler.

Ind3h! · 22 Feb 2008 at 07:42

Windows Media Player > Library > Media Sharing > Xbox 360
Then Windows Media Player > Library > Add to Library

As Gordon Ramsey would say...DONE!

Schizophonic · 22 Feb 2008 at 17:54

I have done all of that and i'm using both versions of WMP11 and Media connect.

However i'm trying to add different video files from the my hard drive and my Xbox just doesn't seem to want to play them....Nothing shows up on the play list.

ArchAnGeL · 22 Feb 2008 at 17:57

it's going to depned on the file types.

If you can see some and not others it suggests the ones you can't see are not compatible with the 360. Are they .mkv's? they won't play

SilverSpider · 22 Feb 2008 at 19:39

ArchAnGeL said:
it's going to depned on the file types.

If you can see some and not others it suggests the ones you can't see are not compatible with the 360. Are they .mkv's? they won't play

You are quite right and basic mpegs will not play either unless you are using Media Center PC, if its just from the 360 dashboard then they will be seen by WMP11 but the 360 wont play them.

Ind3h! · 23 Feb 2008 at 09:32

Schizophonic said:
I have done all of that and i'm using both versions of WMP11 and Media connect.

However i'm trying to add different video files from the my hard drive and my Xbox just doesn't seem to want to play them....Nothing shows up on the play list.

One I fell for when trying to set mine up was I didn't change the video source.
So...
Media > (x) Change Video Source > Select PC
(as it's defaulted to your xbox, so no pc files will show)