tweaktown.com— Ever wanted to play DivX or Xvid movies on your Xbox 360 console? We provide an easy guide to making it happen! We even did it without encoding to WMV format and moving files around everywhere.
Dec 5, 2006View in Crawl 4
I've been using Tversity for a couple of weeks now, and have been impressed with it. Native WMV files work just fine (but then I suppose they would ^_^), though there are too many artifacts when it transcodes from Xvid to WMV.As others have stated, the first 5 pages can be summed up with "use tversity." The last few pages at least have some tweaking tips, that I will be trying when I get home tonight to remove those artifacts.
if you have a decent sized thumb drive...oddly enough, I didn't have to do anything on my router (a crappy D-link wireless G... the cheap one) and streaming videos works great with XP + media player 11.Additionally... I never even thought about transcoding to get xvid/divx to my xbox360. I think I'll have to try the VLC method when I get home... this will make many things much easier on watching videos with my family.
dugg down: yet *another* article about TVersity, and the author of this one doesn't seem to understand that your files *are* being re-encoded into WMV.
This is totally ass backwards. Wasting CPU cycles transcoding what are already not the best looking videos into yet another lossy codec is a waste of time. Please Microsoft & DivX, gives us a DivX codec for the 360. It would make so many people happy.
My guide to streaming media to a 360: 1. Buy a used Xbox1 and a solderless modchip.2. Install modchip (easier than building a PC).3. Torrent a XBMC auto installer disc.4. Use your 360 for games and forget about using it as a media center.
For some readers who may need this put more simply. If any of your videos are encoded with a codec which Windows Media Player 11 supports (this includes the .avi format as well), you can now stream them on the fly.
loungeactxDec 5, 2006
I'm still waiting on a Mac solution, right now Connect360 does music and pictures, but it doesn't do video. I'm hoping they'll do it.
adoughertyDec 5, 2006
I've been using Tversity for a couple of weeks now, and have been impressed with it. Native WMV files work just fine (but then I suppose they would ^_^), though there are too many artifacts when it transcodes from Xvid to WMV.As others have stated, the first 5 pages can be summed up with "use tversity." The last few pages at least have some tweaking tips, that I will be trying when I get home tonight to remove those artifacts.
shredswithpiksDec 5, 2006
if you have a decent sized thumb drive...oddly enough, I didn't have to do anything on my router (a crappy D-link wireless G... the cheap one) and streaming videos works great with XP + media player 11.Additionally... I never even thought about transcoding to get xvid/divx to my xbox360. I think I'll have to try the VLC method when I get home... this will make many things much easier on watching videos with my family.
fatcatfanDec 5, 2006
dugg down: yet *another* article about TVersity, and the author of this one doesn't seem to understand that your files *are* being re-encoded into WMV.
cmirzaDec 5, 2006
This is totally ass backwards. Wasting CPU cycles transcoding what are already not the best looking videos into yet another lossy codec is a waste of time. Please Microsoft & DivX, gives us a DivX codec for the 360. It would make so many people happy.
zdigglerDec 6, 2006
Just get a $40 DVD player that support that feature.
obeseotronDec 6, 2006
My guide to streaming media to a 360: 1. Buy a used Xbox1 and a solderless modchip.2. Install modchip (easier than building a PC).3. Torrent a XBMC auto installer disc.4. Use your 360 for games and forget about using it as a media center.
andrewc989Dec 6, 2006
For some readers who may need this put more simply. If any of your videos are encoded with a codec which Windows Media Player 11 supports (this includes the .avi format as well), you can now stream them on the fly.
Closed AccountDec 6, 2006
Weee, I got it to work.I put streamed some porn over. Quality sucked though. Damn it.
skeuomorphJan 9, 2007
Um, a Mac compatible UPnP media server is the first reply in this set of replies... Does nobody click URLs before commenting any more?
blergleJan 16, 2008
...until you want to watch something in hi-def.