External USB HDD with Xbox

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I cannot get windows media centre working with my laptop due to it being work laptop and hence seems to not allow the xbox to see it.

Instead I was thinking maybe I could put my downloads onto a external drive then plug that into the xbox when i want to watch stuff. It will also be handy for keeping large amounts of data off my laptop.

Will this work?
 
Simon said:
I cannot get windows media centre working with my laptop due to it being work laptop and hence seems to not allow the xbox to see it.

Instead I was thinking maybe I could put my downloads onto a external drive then plug that into the xbox when i want to watch stuff. It will also be handy for keeping large amounts of data off my laptop.

Will this work?
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Yes. Fat32 drive and it has to be certain codecs (although if you have streamed the files to another 360 before, the format will already be correct).

If not there is a list of supported formats here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2007/11/30/december-2007-video-playback-faq.aspx

Edit: Question 10 probably covers what you need.


rp2000
 
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Cool cheers,
how can i work around this one (32gig max):

What size USB storage device does the Xbox 360 support?

The Xbox 360 will support as big of a storage device as you can format using FAT32. Unfortunately when formatting a device in Windows Vista or Windows XP you will be restricted to a maximum FAT32 size of 32GB. You can work around this limitation by using a 3rd party utility or using an alternative Operating System that does not have this restriction. Please note that the maximum size of any single file on FAT32 is 4GB.
 
you can use wmp11 for your streaming as well this is what am doing at the moment for my HD films (mkv files converted to mpeg4 which means am not stuck with the 4gb limit) and i have them all on a external HD which means the lappy is not glogged with media
 
steveo said:
you can use wmp11 for your streaming as well this is what am doing at the moment for my HD films (mkv files converted to mpeg4 which means am not stuck with the 4gb limit) and i have them all on a external HD which means the lappy is not glogged with media
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Can't stream through WMP on this laptop :(
 
Partition Magic or any number of freeware/shareware tools will format FAT32 drives to more than 32GB. I think old Fdisk versions do it (from a win98 floppy disk).


rp2000
 
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