Windows Media Centre - Nooby Help

TheBlueRaja · 23-02-2007, 17:25

Hi All,
I recently got Vista Home Premium with Media Centre built in (No TV card or anything on my PC though).

The idea was to stream videos to my Xbox 360 and onto my telly, which with a little bit of jiggery pokery (dumped wireless got homeplug and learned about transcoding) appears to work well.

What im interested in is what i could be missing, I would like to listen to Streamed internet Radio on My Xbox via the Media Centre interface, watch movies without transcoding, stream internet videos (youtube etc) and have seen what are called Media Centre "plug-ins" for the XP edition of MCE.

Now all i want to know is if when i install plugins that are Vista compatible onto my PC that do this kind of stuff if that will also show on my Xbox 360 as Menu options?

Any ideas?

videodj · 26-02-2007, 12:52

Quite possibly, I guess the only way to find out is to install them and check.

You should be able to see everything that is in MC on the 360.

TheBlueRaja · 26-02-2007, 13:47

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Originally Posted by videodj

Quite possibly, I guess the only way to find out is to install them and check.

You should be able to see everything that is in MC on the 360.

Ah, not quite from what i can tell.

Because the 360 is an extender it dosent do everything the MCE on my Vista box does.

For example, Vista plays AVI through WMC no problem, Xbox 360 dosent.

videodj · 26-02-2007, 15:37

True, but still shows the same files and options, you just use transcode to stream divx.

As far as I'm aware the only way to watch avi's, mpeg2 is to transcode as the 360 only supports wmv at the minute. The extender must be able to support the video format to watch without transcoding, and until microsoft offer an update to add this support, transcoding is the only way to stream to 360.

What add ins are you referring to?

I currently have transcode and mce encoder installed.

I set up my xbox with vista and transcode and works fine.