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- Talus, on 10/12/2007, -19/+11There hasn't been an update recently...
- slogan, on 10/12/2007, -2/+7From site "Release 0.9.9.2 (December 25, 2006)"
- Talus, on 10/12/2007, -17/+9right...which isn't recent
Read the title...this is old news. - Bartboy919, on 10/12/2007, -0/+10Yeah there hasn't been an update, but my xvid movies will always have a home on my 360 because of this!
- EmmSee, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2"please digg up" in story summery = insta-bury
- Erasmus354, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3TVersity is a great program. Not only can you stream Xvid and other stuff, but you can send internet video feeds to the 360 as well. I haven't tried it yet, but it would be awesome for anyone who gets ESPN360 (I have used other internet feeds and it works well).
Although the software is still a bit rough around the edges the latest update fixed a number of issues with the 360. This isn't 360 specific software, but I see it getting very good in the next couple of months. - g30ph, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Well i never heard of it before so I'll digg it.
- wafflez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1>_>...why does my ps3 suck so hard at the moment...currently, i use linux to play avis or hook up laptop with s-video....i'm trying to get an easier way to stream avis on the ps3 cuz i have hdmi for it...anyone know a way?
- slogan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I was able to install, setup, and watch Diggnation in about ten minutes. There is supposed to be a way to watch FLVs, but I haven't figured it out yet.
- Talus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5You can also use TVTonic to both download AND watch Revision3 content if you have MCE.
http://www.TVtonic.com
- Talus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5You can also use TVTonic to both download AND watch Revision3 content if you have MCE.
- Braingoo, on 10/12/2007, -2/+1Sweet will have to give this a try
- knodi, on 10/12/2007, -29/+9A hack Xbox 1 with Xbox Media Center on it is so much better.
- pathy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+28Yeah, but a hacked XBox isn't a 360, is it?
- HOTM, on 10/12/2007, -0/+21Sorry knodi, looks like pathy's amazing logic beats you this time.
- Azriel7, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9A hacked xbox1 cannot play HD content
- jmreid, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Can this transcode HD stuff on the fly? My Xbox1 does an ok job of 720p stuff, but chokes on anything higher.
That said, the highest res stuff I download is the HR.HDTV stuff, which plays beautifully on the Xbox. - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -4/+6@pathy: Yes, but that's really a plus. The 360 is $400, whereas a hacked Xbox 1 can be got for ~$100. And if you're using it to play videos and not games, well, then the 360 is just useless extra power.
@Azriel7: Up to 720p or so, yes.
@jmreid: There's nothing actually available for download in 1080p short of Apple's Movie Trailers and other such short content. HRHD is about the highest res you'll see on the illegal downloads side of things. Bandwidth is not up to 1080p levels yet. - Otto, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Additional: The 720p limit of the XBox-1 is a processor speed limitation. If you want to replace the processor with a faster one, then it could do 1080p.
- unixer, on 10/12/2007, -11/+1What the heck this uses OOS and douse not fully support firefox ??
- kudos, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1WTF is OOS? OSS perhaps?
- econoar, on 10/12/2007, -2/+4Anything like this for Mac that anyone knows about?
- laserick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9For the Mac it is a must to have Connect360. Get the free version here:
http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/connect360 - canewediggit, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9yeah, apple tv! good luck with that one.
scurries away to next article to avoid fanboy beatdown........ - moondog, on 10/12/2007, -1/+20So an appleTV allows for media to be streamed from mac to your den/entertainment room and a xbox360 and connect 360 allows you to do the same thing...and play games, and plug in external hard drives for storage, and HD-DVD player.
AppleTV- 299
Xbox360- 299 - Ricky28269, on 10/12/2007, -10/+2Also if I'm not mistaken, Apple TV is only compatible with iTunes.
Then again, I think 360 Connect is only compatible with Media Center, so...
Still, iTunes is junk on a PC. - contradictator, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Nice, too bad it's shareware.
- ROFLance, on 10/12/2007, -3/+9Connect360 currently only supports WMV+WMA files. There is no transcoding of video files. =
- rstarr, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Why is ROFL getting dugg down?
He's right to the best of my knowledge...
...and if he's not, please indulge.
- laserick, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9For the Mac it is a must to have Connect360. Get the free version here:
- axiomata, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I found this a few days ago after not being able to get MS's media sharing "solution" to work. Overall it work great for music, pictures, and video. The only limit is the 360 interface.
- evil-doer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6is the quality still crappy? ive been using this here to reencode for the 360: http://dcunningham.net/encode360/
its not instant streaming or anything like tversity but the quality is superb.- avisgoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+4I've been using Tversity to on the fly encode since getting my 360, and quality is as good as the source. Meaning my HR HDTV xvids look glorious. It gives you some options as far as quality v. speed for encoding and whatnot. Worth looking into if you like to watch vids through the 360, in my opinion.
- Hypermarkalan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Were you using TVersity's options for resolution on streaming? It looks like crap on default, but if you reconfigure how it steams the video it looks fine.
- evil-doer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1i couldnt even get it to work, id just heard from others that the quality wasnt anywhere near as good as the source. ill maybe give it another try.
- Erasmus354, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1You have to adjust settings, most importantly the resolution settings. By default it sets the max to 400x300 which can cause weird artifacts and overall poor quality. I just set the max res to 1280x720 and have never noticed any quality problems.
- Bartboy919, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The other day I watched Pirates of Silicon Valley at full 480p, you just need the change the res in the player
- ROFLance, on 10/12/2007, -0/+6Needs an OS X cleint.
- bcardarella, on 10/12/2007, -5/+1I wonder if M$ will have anything to say about this. In order for TVersity to accomplish this they have to trick the XBox360 into thinking that they connection is coming form a Windows Media Center machine... then again I know that there has been an OSX app out there for a while that has the same functionality. Either way I'm going to give this a try when I get home.
- zydeco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Unless the TVersity server is complying to the DLNA standard. No tricks involved. Lots of other companies are working on DLNA server stuff as well.
- cliffzdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2The last big update for the XBox 360 added the ability to attach to any standard UPnP server. MCE is absolutely positively no longer required. As Tveristy is a standardized UPnP server, connecting your XBox 360 to it is quite simple. I use it every day to stream TV for my kids...
I can transcode divx to wmv on the fly in realtime with TVersity. Regular def that is, HiDef will require a CPU upgrade. - Blackforge, on 10/12/2007, -1/+0TVersity runs as a Windows Media Connect server and not Windows Media Center. Its not a very slick interface on the Xbox 360 this way, but it does work pretty good. You're limited to Play/Pause/Stop through this interface, but it works.
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/devices/wmconnect/
- godfa7h3r, on 10/15/2007, -0/+2Anyone know if this works on Windows Server 2003?
- 6dust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I didn't have much luck with my Win2k3r2 server. The program installed fine, and seemed to work okay, but the 360 didn't want to find the machine. After a bunch random setting changes, it finally saw it but refused to find any videos shared.
I have yet to try it on a different machine, so I'm hoping my troubles are related to it being 2k3... - Bartboy919, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1The problem there is that you need to disable your firewall or open up the port TVersity uses, Im not sure of what one it is, so for a quick fix just disable the firewall before and enable it after
- 6dust, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I didn't have much luck with my Win2k3r2 server. The program installed fine, and seemed to work okay, but the 360 didn't want to find the machine. After a bunch random setting changes, it finally saw it but refused to find any videos shared.
- btgoss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I need a good tutorial for this program... I was not able to get it to work at all and the tutorial on the site didn't really help. Maybe I should try again with new version. I really want something like this to work. Watching web video would be cool.... youtube videos would be fun.
- avisgoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Instructions that worked for me:
1. Remove ALL third party codecs from the machine you intend to use for encoding.
2. I mean it, remove EVERYTHING, even Quicktime and Realplayer if you have them.
3. Go here: http://www.codecguide.com/download_mega.htm and download the K-Lite Mega Pack. Install this, un-check any options that reference XVID
4. Go here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/ffdshow and download/install the latest stable release of ffdshow. Make sure it has the checkbox checked for XVID handling.
5. Install TVersity. Add your folders/files/goat porn, and viola!
That worked for me. I had some initial issues as well. Also, you may want to set TVersity for encoding ALWAYS, and do not have it auto-detect the unit you're using, select Xbox360 from the list. Worth the time, IMHO. - kilmer, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3@avisgoth
Correct me if I am wrong, but if you uninstall Quicktime then iTunes will cease to function properly or even startup. - avisgoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@kilmer
I believe you are incorrect. Quicktime installs as a separate program, and I've been running ITunes, sans Quicktime, for some time now. Someone can now correct ME if I'm wrong, just speaking from my experience. - kilmer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thanks. I just tried it and it works. I can admit when I am wrong.
- avisgoth, on 10/12/2007, -0/+7Instructions that worked for me:
- apollos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I agree with btgoss. Does anyone know where to find an easy to read walk-through of programs like this?
I'm not totally inept when it comes to video conversion, etc., but have been out of the loop on Xbox 360 video capabilities. Consequently, the page this links to reads like hieroglyphics to me. I'd appreciate not only a how-to but perhaps a 'so what' sort of thing... like why should this type of program be exciting for a 360 user like me.
Help would be greatly appreciated. - corpsesnot, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1TVersity is horrible. The movies don't scale properly like they should.
Say you play an mpeg via the Media Center option and then through TVersity, the latter makes it all grainy and crap looking.
What someone needs to make is an on-the-fly plugin for Media Center so we can play ANY format instead of diddling with these third party no-gos.
Either that or MS should let us install our own codecs. I'm so sick of licensing issues. Such a headache for the consumer.- Blackforge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Read the FAQ:
2.11. The quality of transcoded video files seem to be somewhat reduced compared to the original media file
http://s3.amazonaws.com/www.tversity.com/faq.html#faq-N1039B
Brief Summary, you need to adjust the maximum encoding resolution that TVersity defaults to. Once you bump up the resolution, you can then restart the server and delete the temporary files. This should start playing with higher quality. Once I got everything adjusted properly, it looked almost as good as my Tivo. - djpsyber, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0yeah, it looked like crap on mine too until i followed the instructions on how to raise the resolution under the transcoder section of the options menu. after that, it looked just as good as it did on my PC monitor. change the mimimum resolution to atleast 640x480 (from the 400x300 default) and it should look TONS better.
- Blackforge, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Read the FAQ:
- Smuikas, on 10/15/2007, -3/+0Why is IE + Flash required?
Why can't it have full functionality with Firefox?
Does it use crazy activeX controls or something?- ultrafez, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1I think you've answered your own question... it just requires Flash for the main interface (http://yourserverip:41952/flashlib) or a bog standard web browser for the basic interface (http://yourserverip:41952/medialib/browse). No ActiveX controls in sight.
Also, it works perfectly fine in Firefox.
- ultrafez, on 10/15/2007, -0/+1I think you've answered your own question... it just requires Flash for the main interface (http://yourserverip:41952/flashlib) or a bog standard web browser for the basic interface (http://yourserverip:41952/medialib/browse). No ActiveX controls in sight.
- TwoDee, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm a bit of a noob, and am wondering how to set this up to stream video from my PC to my xbox. If noone can be bothered to explain a link to a tutorial would be nice. Thanks in advance.
- cliffzdude, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1http://s3.amazonaws.com/www.tversity.com/quickstart.html
- P5ycHo, on 10/12/2007, -7/+1dugg down due to the begging for diggs.
- TwoDee, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2@cliffzdude
Yeah, i'm looking at that now, but i'm not understanding it too well. - lemonkey, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0An alternative is to run Windows Media Center (tm) edition in a VMWare (tm) session, sharing videos off of a machine within your LAN onto the XBox 360 (tm). There are plenty of addons for WMC that will allow you to transcode in real-time for many video formats (Transcode-360 works well) or access You Tube (tm) for instance.
I've used TVersity since it came out and it works well, albeit navigating your content is much harder compared to using WMC with the 360. - evil-doer, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i thought id give this another try after reading this thread. it simply just crashes every time i try to play something through it.
- IEatHamburgers, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Any options out there to save content on the 360 rather than just streaming it?
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -3/+2No it doesn't. There is no PC fast enough to transcode HDTV content to WMV9 fast enough to watch it on the fly.
Give me a machine that plays more than one format.
Buried as inaccurate.- Eleo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It doesn't have to be transcoded to WMV, the formats just have to be decoded and then that data streamed to the XBox 360, if I'm not mistaken.
- Hamsterpotpies, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2It crashed the server on my computer when I was trying to watch MXC. hmm...
- jmahorney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'll give it a try tonight. Sounds worth a try at least.
- tastypastry, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1More and more the reason for me to get a 360.
- Eleo, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1Problem with this program is it uses too much RAM while idling. Windows Media Player does the same thing. I just don't get why a server that's currently not streaming anything should use 25~40MB of RAM in the background. It would be great if it could just chillout at a few megabytes until someone actually tries to access media, at which point I'd have no problem with it using more resources.
- mattryan50, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6TVersity sucks so much ass! Don't waste your time.
- otdvash, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1agreed.
- yunfat, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1For mac use connect360 to do the same... no transcoding on the fly however, you will need to encode for wmv. Not free either, but it works pretty nicely.
http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/connect360 - pock, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0http://www.runtime360.com/ does divx and xvid for pc.
- JohnOaks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This program is more of a hassle than anything else.
- empyreal, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Does this also work with the tuner cards in my pc? I use MCE's guide for recording TV shows and use the tuners in it to stream live cable tv to my 360. Does this have comparable features? I see nothing about this on TVersity's site.
- jmahorney, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OK, so what are people using? Kindly weigh in folks.
TVersity? Encode360? Runtime360?
I wish I had time to try them all, but I don't so I'd like to try the most recommended one.
:)
Thanks- MilesLombardi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm using TVersity, it works quite well. It was an absolute pain to set up mind you, but what isn't? Nobody creates anything for the non tech savvy anymore, and even we struggle.
Anyway, I've only tried the scaling to 480p, but believe me your system resources will die if you don't fiddle with the settings a little. Because it's active transcoding you've gotta have a fairly meaty machine (especially if you plan to do 720p).
If you can get TVersity working, then I'd say go for it, because it works very well.
- MilesLombardi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I'm using TVersity, it works quite well. It was an absolute pain to set up mind you, but what isn't? Nobody creates anything for the non tech savvy anymore, and even we struggle.
- knil, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Anyone know if this works on Vista?
- otdvash, on 11/24/2008, -0/+1"please digg up and spread the good word"
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