Xbox 360 Media Extender
Tags: xbox 360, media center extender, XVID
So last night I rebuilt my PC with Media Center Edition, somthing I have been putting off for some time. Due to the epic nightmare it always turns out to be. Antics that followed :
So I have got MCE up and running and immediately install the Xbox Media Center Extender software so I can connect my Xbox 360. This install takes quite an age though I suspect the large part of it was MCE indexing the music pictures and videos etc from my NAS box.
Got the whole thing up and running and can browse most of my mp3s on 360 ( most its still indexing got to 8800 tracks about now, probably NAS's fault its not v quick ). Couple of odd things, MCE on the PC and MCE extender appear to keep separate metabases of your media files. most annoying of all the thing appears to be written to NOT PLAY XVID's. GRRRR
Update : It seem the people at www.runtime360.com are on the case with DIVX and are writing a program called transcode ( currently beta 4.1 )
So last night I rebuilt my PC with Media Center Edition, somthing I have been putting off for some time. Due to the epic nightmare it always turns out to be. Antics that followed :- Discovered didn't have the drivers around for my SATA raid controller
- Found drivers
- Realised Cant install them from USB device as Windows will only look for them on A: drive
- Spend 20 minutes looking for a floppy disk
- Find floppy disk to find my floppy drive wont format it ( probably has had a strop through lack of attension
- Think Stuff it ill use the SATA 133 controller instead of the SATA 150 ( morale you can never have enough controllers on the mother board )
- All is well windows installs in record time ( about 10 minutes, despite telling me at the start this was going to last 39 minutes).
So I have got MCE up and running and immediately install the Xbox Media Center Extender software so I can connect my Xbox 360. This install takes quite an age though I suspect the large part of it was MCE indexing the music pictures and videos etc from my NAS box.
Got the whole thing up and running and can browse most of my mp3s on 360 ( most its still indexing got to 8800 tracks about now, probably NAS's fault its not v quick ). Couple of odd things, MCE on the PC and MCE extender appear to keep separate metabases of your media files. most annoying of all the thing appears to be written to NOT PLAY XVID's. GRRRR
Update : It seem the people at www.runtime360.com are on the case with DIVX and are writing a program called transcode ( currently beta 4.1 )
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