Hi Basically Im looking at buying a 360 not just for games but mainly to enable me to play HD content. Ive got a Pioneer 436XDE but up to now have had zero HD content to play on it, and sick of waiting for SkyHD and the PS3 Ive decided to opt for a 360. However Ive heard that you can only play HD content from the Xbox Live Marketplace at the moment. I would be willing to purchase Media Centre 2005 for the PC if I knew I could stream HD trailers/movies/tv shows etc downloaded off the net. So firstly... 1...Is this possible and what types of files are playable? 2...Do u get any lag/slow framerates etc over an ethernet cable? 3...Can I run the Media Centre Extender in the background on the PC? Thanks
[bold]1...Is this possible and what types of files are playable? [/bold] The xbox media center only streams mpeg and wmv... but you can get addons that allow it to stream any video you can play on your computer... look for my media center video type thread. So any file is playable.. http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/378853 [bold]2...Do u get any lag/slow framerates etc over an ethernet cable?[/bold] I don't notice any lag b/w my xbox and my pc in terms of network lag... sure i'll start extracting a 6 gig .rar and my encoder to convert divx movies to mpeg, on the fly, to stream to my xbox will lag a bit... but thats to be expected... but thats the addon to play all video files that lags.. not the media center. it runs flawlessly if im not beatin up my computer... [bold]3...Can I run the Media Centre Extender in the background on the PC?[/bold] How else will you run the xbox 360 with the media center, if extender is not running?? You have to run the extender, it is what connects the xbox and the pc... I hope i answered your questions fully, if you need any more explaining just ask.. Peace
I'm also wanting these answers You have mentioned addons What are these addons? and where can I get them?
