So I finally broke down and bought a 360

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diarh34

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After being a loyal pc gamer for about 10 years. Have a couple stupid questions. I bought a slim 250gig so I could load up some movies/music on it. Stupid question I have is how can I get my files on the xbox. All I've figured out is how to stream and play off a flashdrive. But I want to actually put the files on the system since I have this 250gig hard drive in it



no laughing
 
You cannot for the most part. You can rip CDs or put your xvids on an external, but other than that nada. Streaming is te best way-install all your games and it will fill up eventually.
 
bah was afraid of that, oh well. I would still be unhappy with the 4gig because I would want to install my games and demos and stuffs. Thanks for the quick reply sir
 
The included 250GB hdd isn't used for storing movies you copy to the machine. Actually you never 'copy' your own content to the 360 hdd, thats for 360 signed content only. This is good because you'll want to save that precious 250GB, trust me.

If you want to watch movies on your 360 you have a few options. USB like you are, or you could stream it over the network. You can link your 360/PC a few different ways, either simply file sharing in Windows or through Media Center. The 360 can be used as a media center extender which give a nice GUI interface.

You're new to the platform so it'll take some time before it all settles in. I use my 360 as my main media center extender, and its awesome. Give it some time, read some tutorials and you'll be off and running in no time.
 
You can also get a program like Tversity to allow you to stream video off of your computer to your Xbox. You can also use it to stream Hulu to your Xbox.
 
As the others have said you can only stream your movies from a PC, or use an external storage device and hook it up to the Xbox. As far as your music is concerned, you can store audio on the 360, but there is a catch. You have to actually rip it from a CD right from your Xbox. There's no file-transfer features to let you move your MP3s from a computer our USB device. Just like movies though, you can also stream music just fine from a PC.

Although it would be nice, like theNoid stated, you'll want to keep that 250GB for other purposes. Use all that hard drive space to install your games, get DLC, etc. I personally think using the storage to install your games to the hard drive, to get faster loading times, out-weighs having to stream your media from a secondary device.
 
Jerome36 said:
I personally think using the storage to install your games to the hard drive, to get faster loading times, out-weighs having to stream your media from a secondary device.
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QFT. just stream videos and such from the pc. it runs just fine for me.
 
Should have bought a PS3 if you wanted a media hub...

and to actually help, "PS3 Media Server" works good for 360 as well
 
koretex said:
Should have bought a PS3 if you wanted a media hub...

and to actually help, "PS3 Media Server" works good for 360 as well
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That is correct!
PS3 Media Server works flawlessly for the 360 (I own both PS3 and 360)...
 
Setup TVersity on a PC on your network with all your content. Works amazingly well and will transcode any file that the 360 doesn't support.
 
The only thing a 360 won't stream is iTunes movies, no matter how much you'd like it to.

I can stream almost anything and everything from my PC to my 360 using either TVersity or Media Center, but a rented itunes movie wont go.

My deal is the PC is elsewhere in the house and the XBox is connected to my LCD TV.
It will stream anyhting else as an extender.

Solution......I built an HTPC from older S775 parts, and just use the 360 for games that aren't released on PC.:D
 
Thread title has me picturing someone at the cashier's desk weeping as they hand over the money for their 360. :D
 
If streaming mkv movies is your main thing you don't need tversity or any transcoder anymore. The 360 can receive streamed mkvs if you simply install the Divx+ Tech Preview package and then Sharkys 007 codex pack. Transcoding destroys IQ. Now I can stream 1080p mkvs to my 360 as a Media Extender. My understanding is that PS3 Media Server limits you to 720p on the 360 and I'm not sure but I think it also transcodes which you should avoid for HD content.
 
nobody_here said:
If streaming mkv movies is your main thing you don't need tversity or any transcoder anymore. The 360 can receive streamed mkvs if you simply install the Divx+ Tech Preview package and then Sharkys 007 codex pack.
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Very nice! Can you elaborate on this?

magoo said:
My deal is the PC is elsewhere in the house and the XBox is connected to my LCD TV.
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You house isn't networked? How do you get your XBox onto the internet if it isn't?
 
Met-AL said:
Very nice! Can you elaborate on this?



You house isn't networked? How do you get your XBox onto the internet if it isn't?
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the new 360 Slim comes with internal wireless WiFi but also has a ethernet jack in the back of course.....mine is wired because my router is behind my TV in the living room, so my bluray player and 360 can both be jacked in, and i just ran a cable to the office room where my pc is, i dont do wireless for anything needing high bandwidth....only my android phones and wifes laptop and the Wii downstairs run on WiFi

as far as streaming with Windows Media Center, just set it up on your PC, assuming running Windows 7....set up the libraries so it looks in the right places on your pc for the files

then go install this package first, it will add mkv support to Windows Media Center/Media Player

http://www.divx.com/en/software/divx-plus/codec-pack

now go install Sharkys 007 Codec pack for WMP12

http://www.majorgeeks.com/Win7codecs_d5959.html

and now if you are running Windows 7 x64 install the x64 components for the Sharkys 007 codecs

http://www.majorgeeks.com/download.php?det=5535


after doing all that you need to right click the Settings or in my case Settings x64 and choose run as admin



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then tick the x64 as default player as seen in picture



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and then choose exit......

then fire up Windows Media Center on your PC again, go to settings i think...there's a place where you tell it you want to configure/add a Media Extender, then go turn on the 360 and make sure it is on the network, then hit the Windows Media button on the media remote if you have it, if not its in the menus somewhere.... and when it comes up it will tell you it needs to be set up and the 360 will give you a six digit code, write it down, walk to pc, type it in...and within a minute or so your 360 should launch the Windows Media Center on your 360/TV. Now set up the media libraries as needed and browse to your movie mkv files and now they stream!

beware, it eats up huge amounts of memory on the PC, around 1.75Gb for a 1080p mkv movie stream, but this is what i built a quad core 4Gb machine for...lol
 
Met-AL said:
Very nice! Can you elaborate on this?



You house isn't networked? How do you get your XBox onto the internet if it isn't?
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Yes it is. I was explaining why I didn't use my PC to watch iTunes movies on the TV.....it isn't in the same place and the 360 won't stream iTunes movies.
 
theNoid said:
The included 250GB hdd isn't used for storing movies you copy to the machine. Actually you never 'copy' your own content to the 360 hdd, thats for 360 signed content only. This is good because you'll want to save that precious 250GB, trust me.
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Is the 250 GB version really that useful over the 4 GB version? One of my friends has a 250 GB 360, but they only really use < 4 GB. This is a big family with four kids that all use the same xbox and all have separate live accounts.
 
LstOfTheBrunnenG said:
Is the 250 GB version really that useful over the 4 GB version? One of my friends has a 250 GB 360, but they only really use < 4 GB. This is a big family with four kids that all use the same xbox and all have separate live accounts.
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load your games up on the hdd and 250gb will dissapear quick
 
I don't know about that... 250gb will hold somewhere in the order of 40 installed retail games. Who has that many games in their rotation at one time? Unless of course you're too lazy to delete an install when you're finished playing it.
 
LstOfTheBrunnenG said:
Is the 250 GB version really that useful over the 4 GB version? One of my friends has a 250 GB 360, but they only really use < 4 GB. This is a big family with four kids that all use the same xbox and all have separate live accounts.
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yeah, tell him to install all those games at 4-5 Gb each onto the hard drive, it will save his DVD drive....suddenly he will have a bit less space

also for people into Rock Band/Guitar Hero, etc......some of those music packs are 500Mb-1Gb in size, or at least a few hundred Mb each, if you had an entire collection of DLC for a couple of those games it adds up....you couldn't fit it on a 4Gb console thats for sure, heck, just the Metallica DLC for Guiter Hero 3 is 1Gb
 
Oddly enough, not really in my case. A 1080p vid I'm currently playing is using about 225mb of ram.
 
Psychotext said:
Oddly enough, not really in my case. A 1080p vid I'm currently playing is using about 225mb of ram.
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I mean when you stream it. When I stream it uses almost every megabyte I have. Somewhere around 3.7 Gb of the 4 I have installed. It did the same thing on my old system, used 1.75Gb of the 2Gb installed. Did you go in and change the default media player to WMP x64? I did. Maybe that's why. Read up on the Sharky 007 website on how to set that up properly. Or are you on a 32 bit system?
 
Not sure what you mean by streaming it... but I was watching a 1080p vid on my 360 sent by my laptop (64 bit windows 7 home) and it was using up about 225mb RAM. I did notice later on (about 4 hours of videos later) that my available ram had disappeared, but I can only assume that's because something was coded badly (a memory leak or two at a guess). A quick reboot and it's back to using around 200mb.
 
Psychotext said:
Not sure what you mean by streaming it... but I was watching a 1080p vid on my 360 sent by my laptop (64 bit windows 7 home) and it was using up about 225mb RAM. I did notice later on (about 4 hours of videos later) that my available ram had disappeared, but I can only assume that's because something was coded badly (a memory leak or two at a guess). A quick reboot and it's back to using around 200mb.
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Streaming.....it what we are doing, streaming the movie from the PC to the 360 over the network is called streaming.

Mine never maxes out...it stops around 3.75Gb and hovers 3.68 to 3.75 until the movie is stopped.
 
Yes, I know what streaming is. I just don't know why you specified it when I said I was watching a 1080p MKV on my 360 (the only way to do this is using the method described earlier). :p
 
wish I could find a use for my 360.I do everything on my ps3 and rarely even turn the xbox on, heck I play my wii more than the xbox. the only 360 exclusive I play is the fable series, my favorite games are ps3 exclusives so far.I tend tobuy multiplatform for the ps3 too, the built in networking is too convienent and im not buying a new xbox toget built in wifi. basically both systems are equal inperformance and entertainment value with neither having a clear advantage.
 
Psychotext said:
Yes, I know what streaming is. I just don't know why you specified it when I said I was watching a 1080p MKV on my 360 (the only way to do this is using the method described earlier). :p
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I though maybe you were watching it on you PC.. :)
 
I never seem to get PS3 media server playing videos fluently when on wireless. Probably a bandwidth problem.
 
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