How to stream Video and music fromy ou PC to your xbox 360º?

[nycdfan042]

Currently im running xp pro service pack 2 and im very lost. I have a phone that synchs to my windows media player and i cant figure it out, for some reason its exported a HUGE list of music that i have on my hard drive. Is there a web site that shows you step by step how to synch up your xbox 360 and computer? either via wireless or via USb chord, how is it done??

 

[Endo]

good luck.. for some reason its a pain in the ass.. i had it working with the gfs laptop, which had no videos or music at the time.. but couldnt get it to work with my desktop, which had all the videos and music, you have to get it set up right with windows media center. www.xbox.com should have it somewhere.


good luck man. lemmy know when you figure it out.

 

[marx2k]

My original XBox has become my entertainment center. XBMC FTW!!
Outputs like a charm @ 1080i to a 65" 1080p TV via component cables, streams divx/xvid/mpeg and internet (YouTube, CNN, etc) video and music via SAMBA from all of my linux boxes planted all around the house. Also runs all the emulators I ever need My living room Linux box outputs DVI->HDMI and is connected to the TV and all that, but I haven't done that in a long-ass time. The original XBox is all the media center I ever will need Not bad for a $80 system (used @ most action replay/play-it-again/etc stores) and a $50 modchip and 10 minutes worth of solderless modchip setup

 

[gmb]

I've never owned an xbox, so it's safe to say that I honestly don't know how to actually do it, but I'm curious as to what file system the xbox uses. Windows is weird, and seems to only like to show NTFS and FAT file systems. If xbox is *nix, which even Microsoft is smart enough to do, it's probably ext3, xfs or ufs. Probably be easier to just mount it in linux via
mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb420 /xb0x
I'd get an xbox, but I'd probably just spend the money on a computer instead.

 

[marx2k]

All it involves with an XBox is slapping in a modchip (which these days is pretty much just seating it onto the motherboard. There are two optional solderpoints if you want dashboard display LED readouts of network and hard drive activity), and then installing XBMC which is done automatically via Auto Installer Disk.

Microsoft is not smart enough to do *nix, unfortunately. Or maybe it is, but decided not to for competition reasons. (Which is probably why Vista still can't read ext3, yet my Ubuntu installs can read and write to my NTFS/Fat16/Fat32 partitions) The XBox has a proprietary format known as FATX. It seems like the XBox360 runs pretty much the same thing.

It WOULD be easy to mount an XBox hard drive via samba via smbfs or cifs, but the XBox doesn't have an internal Samba or NFS server to do so. However, XBMC (the media center software that my XBox runs off of) does have an active FTP server. It also has a file manager program and also can browse any Samba shares (As well as other types of shares such as TuxBox, XLink Kai, other local lan XBoxes, etc) so getting stuff onto its' hard drive is easy enough. But keep in mind that unless you upgrade the hard drive (easy to do), the stock hard drive is 8 gigs. And with XBMC on it with all the bells and whistles, Ive only got about 3 gigs free. Perfect for MAME, NES, SNES, TG16 and Genesis ROMs. And of course my library of Xbox backups on DVD is playable on the system as well

Check it out: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/XBMC

The amount spent on this sort of setup will not get you a new computer. At best it will get you a component upgrade. 1 video card or 1 hard drive or a few gigs of RAM. I think the community has hacked the XB360 enough to do the same, but of course, it requires a modchip or possibly a DVD firmware hack. I don't know, as I spent too much money on my XB360 to go tinkering with it just yet.

 

[Guest]

how are you upscaling an orginal xbox to 1080i, i thought they were only able to go up to 480p/720i at most? is it the chip thing you installed for all the other stuff?

 

[marx2k]

how are you upscaling an orginal xbox to 1080i, i thought they were only able to go up to 480p/720i at most? is it the chip thing you installed for all the other stuff?

It can do 1080i with component cables. Like this: http://cgi.ebay.com/Component-HDTV-...tcZphotoQQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
(Not the RGB cables that come with the XBox)


Some games do native 1080i when they see you've got component cables hooked up. Monkeyball, for instance. Other games also detect you've got 1080i but do not do 1080i themselves. Instead, they output a compressed image so you can full-size the image on your TV (San Andreas, for instance).

Movies will play via xbmc in 1080i

 

[Guest]

i had no idea original xbox was capable of that, as i was a ps2 owner last generation, were there all that many games that did native 720i and up or were there a few here and there?

 

[marx2k]

i had no idea original xbox was capable of that, as i was a ps2 owner last generation, were there all that many games that did native 720i and up or were there a few here and there?

There were more as time progressed. But I'd say there's a nice little library of them. I mean, personally, I prefer the games that do native 1080i, but there are not that many of those. The ones that do the compressed image thing, there's a lot of but as with all 480/720p images boomed out to 1080i/p, especially on a 65" TV, they lose their clarity a bit. You should see it when I hook up my Dreamcast to that TV... makes me wonder why I was ever impressed with those graphics

 

[nycdfan042]

im runnin a 32 inch dell 1080 P 360 thru component cables that it came with nothing fancy and i get great results. My buddy Greenlabel is the comp whiz he gets to stream from his PC to hdmi onto his nice 46 inch lcd! wicked nice set up too, theres a whole forum on his TV, my TV you cant even find anymore LOL

 

[GorillaGrower]

ahah... good call marx2k.. I got 2 of those xboxes sitting on the floor in the other room ; D one with a xenium an one with switch on the front It's all about the mod scene.
I noticed you got a dreamcast... that thing rocked back in the day.. no mod chip and hundreds of games.. the only one I never did was a ps2.. fn like 17 wires right?

yo NYCDfan0420 .. its a bitch and a half to get xbox360 setup but.. I'm almost there. problem is I got a router that then feeds a separate wireless point. unfortuenately that won't work with the extender system. the xbox and the pc wont "see" each other on the network.. we tried everything as far as masking ip and the like.. but no go.. anyone got the info?

Your supposed to have a streaming PC connected with cabling to a router/dualband wireless point.. and have the xbox on wireless. at least that's per MS instructions.

edit: it doesn't have to be wireless..

 

[marx2k]

im runnin a 32 inch dell 1080 P 360 thru component cables that it came with nothing fancy and i get great results. My buddy Greenlabel is the comp whiz he gets to stream from his PC to hdmi onto his nice 46 inch lcd! wicked nice set up too, theres a whole forum on his TV, my TV you cant even find anymore LOL

Yep.. that's what I do with my PC as well. Don't need to be a whiz as Linux does this by default now if you have the TV connected. It's nice as hell, but you still got to interact with the computer (away from the couch). That's why I like having a console with a controller to do it