View Full Version : So who's doing the Media Center thing with their 360?
Anthony1
04-26-2006, 02:22 AM
Anybody out there streaming content from their Media Center PC's to their 360 systems?
I've been messing around with it for a day now, problem is, I'm using a wireless setup, and I only have a g router, not a [a + g router]. So the video is quite choppy, and I can't get it to play my .ts files yet. Somebody was telling me that you really need to run a wired setup if you really want to do the media center thing properly. I would love to put a bunch of DVD movies on my PC's hard drive, and maybe some HDTV content, ( of course I would need a HDTV tuner card), and then streaming that to my 360. It would work out nicely, cause I can connect my 360 to 3 seperate TV's and it would come in quite handy. Especially the HDTV content part. I could record stuff like "Lost" in HDTV, via my PC and a HDTV tuner card, edit out the commercials, and then watch it in HDTV in my living room or maybe in my Garage movie theater setup. I would just have to have my 360 in whichever location that I wanted to use it. I could record "The Tonight Show" in HDTV, and check it out every now and then if they have some really good guests or something. Unfortunately, I would pretty much be limited to recording Network HDTV programs, rather than Satellite or anything like that.
c0ldb33r
04-26-2006, 08:34 AM
I use XBMC with my original xbox. It needs a wired connection.
I just stream normal content, and of course you're talking about HD stuff, so you'll REALLY need a wired connection.
ClubNinja
04-26-2006, 10:50 AM
For music and video (lower quality), we stream wirelessly to the 360 without issue. Never tried anything of particularly high quality.
I use XBMC with my original xbox. It needs a wired connection.
I just stream normal content, and of course you're talking about HD stuff, so you'll REALLY need a wired connection.
Same here, XBMC does everything I need from a Media box for my TV.
gamegirl79
04-26-2006, 01:39 PM
I use XBMC with my original xbox. It needs a wired connection.
I just stream normal content, and of course you're talking about HD stuff, so you'll REALLY need a wired connection.
Same here, XBMC does everything I need from a Media box for my TV.
Yep, same here. Love XBMC. I've actually been playing around with that more than I've been playing Xbox games!
I use XBMC with my original xbox. It needs a wired connection.
I just stream normal content, and of course you're talking about HD stuff, so you'll REALLY need a wired connection.
Same here, XBMC does everything I need from a Media box for my TV.
Yep, same here. Love XBMC. I've actually been playing around with that more than I've been playing Xbox games!
The latest thing I did was install a script that lets me access my Sirius Satellite Radio subscription through XBMC. No home kit needed for my satellite radio :D
jcalder8
04-26-2006, 09:29 PM
I never knew that you could do that with the 360. If/when I get one I'll have to try that out. I currently use XBMC and I find that its pretty good but I've never gotten my pc and xbox to work well together, I have to log them both into new IPs so I can't access the internet at the same time I stream over which cuts down on the number of things I do this with. Hopefully I won't suffer the same fate with the 360.
Joker T
04-26-2006, 09:36 PM
I got a cheap dell with media center edtion on it. suppose I can put it to use when I get a 360 :)
Ed Oscuro
04-26-2006, 11:12 PM
I'm quite sure that whenever I get a 360 (whenever that may be!) I won't be using it in this fashion. PCs just are more convenient for me for music - plus my car's got a stereo. Music time! :D
Anthony1
05-02-2006, 04:14 PM
Is anybody using a "A + G Router" with their Xbox 360 and a Media Center PC?
The PC that I bought that came with Media Center has a video that is already in the "My Video's" section that is a National Geographic Egyptian thing in HDTV already on it. Well, I've been able to play this on my 360 wirelessly, in other rooms, and it actually works pretty damn good, but occasionally there are video hiccups with it. It stutters and starts and stops sometimes.
In all of the stuff that I've seen from Microsoft on using Media Center with the 360 and streaming video wirelessly, they claim that you must have a "A + G Router" to have video without any issues. The router that I'm using is a regular G router, it doesn't do the A part, and I'm wondering if anybody does have one of these A + G routers, and have they been able to see that Egyptian video without any hiccups or anything like that. Is the video smooth if you have a A + G router?
If it's pretty damn smooth, like 95 percent of the time or more, then maybe I'll just get myself a A + G Router, and try to do it the proper way. If not, then I guess I'll have to go to all the trouble and expense of hard wiring it. It's some very long distances, and alot of holes and crap, not something I'm looking forward to doing, in terms of running all that cat 5 wire throughout my house. If the A + G does the trick, then that's definitely the way I'm going to go. If it only improves it slightly, then I guess I'm going to have to climb up into my attic and make a bunch of holes all over the place. That would really suck, and my wife will get pissed at the holes in the various rooms that I would have to make.
hmmm :hmm:
c0ldb33r
05-02-2006, 04:59 PM
The latest thing I did was install a script that lets me access my Sirius Satellite Radio subscription through XBMC. No home kit needed for my satellite radio :D
Wow thats an awesome idea! I had no idea you could do that!
Can you record the stream to the HDD?
-hellvin-
05-02-2006, 10:10 PM
Yeah...I stream music...
The wireless network has been very finicky lately and the laptop and 360 are quite bitchy about working. It was nice when it worked well...50,000 song random playlist. Found out I have some pretty weird stuff I never even remembered, haha.
What I really wanted to do was stream all my video files. Mostly music videos, and tv episodes. But hey!!! Guess what kids?! You have to own a media center pc to use the xbox 360 as a media center! Gogo redundancy!
NeoSNightmarE
05-03-2006, 12:36 AM
hmm...dont have a 360 yet but i can vouch for XBMC and the awesomeness that it has potentially. however, i didnt know about the sirius script. thats worth checking out if i ever get a subscription. thanks for the heads up.
Here's the XBMC Sirius script:
http://www.sacknet.org/sirius/
You have to have a Sirius account (obviously) and you cannot record streams to the HD. It's pulling the same channels you'd get off of the player on the Sirius website.
I believe there is one for XM as well, but I haven't looked into that much since I don't subscribe to XM.