New Vista Beta 5728

I'm thinking of trying this over the weekend, or maybe i'll download rc2 if it is available tommorrow...just one thing, will i be able to connect up my 360 and stream movies?
 
Amp34 said:
LOL teach me to read the whole thread. Does it do it a lot on your computer, say once an hour or so? How about the screen flicker thing to? Im very interested as I got a new monitor a week ago and I wasnt sure if it was the monitor or the OS. :confused: :p
Nah it's the os, cause the mouse cursor is still on the screen even though it's blank.
 
I'll be damned if I can get it working using either Virtual PC or VMWare :(.. it just freezes on the 'setup is loading files' screen, before getting anywhere near an install :(

Anyone?
 
Pez said:
I'll be damned if I can get it working using either Virtual PC or VMWare :(.. it just freezes on the 'setup is loading files' screen, before getting anywhere near an install :(

Anyone?

I've noticed pausing for quite some time at the beginning of the setup on a coupl e of occasions, how long did you wait? also might be worth burning the disk again but just under the max speed of your writer, first 2 copies failed for me when i burned them at full speed and my drive isnt one that normally produces coasters


sharpy said:
I'm thinking of trying this over the weekend, or maybe i'll download rc2 if it is available tommorrow...just one thing, will i be able to connect up my 360 and stream movies?

yes and no, the vista media center will connect to an xbox 360 which is a definate plus and fairly swish when you use it.. however media center can only play mpeg and wmv video files regardless of what codecs you have on the pc, there is a program called transcoder 360 that does on the fly conversion but i didnt have any luck getting it to work. word is that microsoft wont be adding extra format support so this is a pretty big limitation on it
 
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Thats ok, i was converting my main media files from avi/xvid to wmv when i was on XP Media Center so as long as i can play these im happy, thanks
 
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