external pc hard drive be used on a 360?

cyclopopcicle · 18 Jan 2007 at 10:48

as topic if i bought an external HD could i use it on the xbox360 to access mp3s, xvids etc?

cokecan · 18 Jan 2007 at 10:52

i dont know about xvids (probs not seein as they have to be encoded to wmv first anyway when streaming them) but music certainly (hence why ipods and mp3 players work

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i think you just need a certain file system on the drive but dunno which though?

McDaniel · 18 Jan 2007 at 10:52

360 doest support xvid out of the box so to speak - but if the hdd was attatched via usb (like an external housing) then yes it can

akirru · 18 Jan 2007 at 12:33

So, If i buy an external Hard Drive and transfer a lot of movies to it. Can I play them on the 360 if its connected with usb? Regardless of the codec/format?

Andy

McDaniel · 18 Jan 2007 at 12:55

akirru said:
So, If i buy an external Hard Drive and transfer a lot of movies to it. Can I play them on the 360 if its connected with usb? Regardless of the codec/format?

Andy

No, WMV is the main format - xvid etc dont work unless you have a 3rd party program to encode on the fly; i.e transcode360

Beepcake · 18 Jan 2007 at 12:56

akirru said:
So, If i buy an external Hard Drive and transfer a lot of movies to it. Can I play them on the 360 if its connected with usb? Regardless of the codec/format?

Andy

No, McDaniel's post was a bit misleading. You can play movies from a USB drive but they have to be in proper WMV format (with WMV audio too, some convertors use MP3 audio).

Begbie · 18 Jan 2007 at 12:56

Nope! Has to be in wmv, altough there is software if feeding from the pc it will transfer on the fly to wmv format. So so so so hope big bill brings out other codec support would just make the xbox amazing!

McDaniel · 18 Jan 2007 at 12:57

Beepcake said:
No, McDaniel's post was a bit misleading. You can play movies from a USB drive but they have to be in proper WMV format (with WMV audio too, some convertors use MP3 audio).

it was sorry, i meant the hdd can be used for music

cyclopopcicle · 18 Jan 2007 at 14:31

so if i convert them first to WMV they will play from the external HD?

Memphis · 18 Jan 2007 at 16:54

cyclopopcicle said:
so if i convert them first to WMV they will play from the external HD?

Yes.

DaveyD · 18 Jan 2007 at 16:54

cyclopopcicle said:
so if i convert them first to WMV they will play from the external HD?

Yes, though it's very time consuming.

pumaz · 18 Jan 2007 at 20:57

Sorry.

But i didn't and wouldn't have mentioned the "M" word or given any clues.

Just trying to help.