Fast-forwarding in Media Centre through the 360.

Freeman

Freeman

Freeman

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I don't know but I must be missing something here. We watch a lot of documentaries and films through the 360 which is connected to a computer with Vista media centre, so all the films are stored on one computer on our network.

It works great and everything, but the controls really do suck. When I want to fast forward or rewind, the triggers either skip me 30 seconds forwards, or flick straight to the end of the film. The only way I can resume a film, or get to a particular part of the film, is to press the RB a couple of times and wait for about 10 minutes while the thing fast forwards through the film.

It's absolutely ridiculous in this day and age.

Am I missing something here? Can anyone help?

Cheers
 
Not sure what the issue is, you can skip and fast forward, what is it you want to do?
 
PiKe said:
Not sure what the issue is, you can skip and fast forward, what is it you want to do?
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Say I watch part of a film and get half way through it, I switch my 360 off. The next day I want to watch the rest of that film, how on earth do I easily get to half way through that film, and resume where I left off? The easiest way I have found so far is just to press RB and let it go through the whole film, it takes ages. If I use the triggers it messes up and skips to the end of the film.
 
Freeman said:
Say I watch part of a film and get half way through it, I switch my 360 off. The next day I want to watch the rest of that film, how on earth do I easily get to half way through that film, and resume where I left off? The easiest way I have found so far is just to press RB and let it go through the whole film, it takes ages. If I use the triggers it messes up and skips to the end of the film.
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I think I know what you mean. You mean like on an iPod or PSP where you can quickly scroll the "time index" press play and it will start to play from there.

Not used the media centre extender feature for a while, so all I can offer is a link to the full controller settings of the 360:

http://download.microsoft.com/downl...19D-9346-78B8AE18A418/Xbox360-MC-QuickRef.pdf

Its from Microsoft, so it is fairly definitive. I think according to this you need to use the d-pad to "navigate"?


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yeah, fast forward/rewind do seem to be in 30s increments, but if you have any MPEG2 movies, if you repackage them as dvr-ms files using Video-redo, FF/RWD work flawlessly.. I use this for my DVD's and HD transport streams. Repackaging to DVR-MS does not touch the video stream, just packages it up in a new container, so no quality is lost.

What format are these files, and assuming they are not wmv/mpeg2 what is installed that is transcoding them?
 
This is one thing I like about the dashboard's video playback - it splits your title up into about 10 chunks and you can easily skip a chunk at a time. Did someone mention the other day that you can add bookmarks to Media Center videos though? Then you can skip to the bookmark and carry on where you left off?
 
This isn't to do with the xbox 360 at all, it's to do with Vista Media Centre as a whole.

The frame forward buttons generally forward by around 30 seconds or so, whilst the fast forward button gets faster each time you press it.

The Vista MC though, if you just pause the video rather than stopping it completely - you can resume at the point you were watching it last even after the computer has been restarted.

I do this all the time with films (etc) on my Media Centre.

This should work with the 360 as well, since all the 360 does is send commands to the computer.
 
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