Streaming Video through x360 (without MCE)

[leggy]

Ok so thanks to babs for this but I know a number of people are unaware that you can stream video (divx, xvid etc) over your network to your 360 without windows media centre (or windows media connect).

What you need is a program called TVersity:

www.tversity.com

and have a read of this forum post:

http://forums.tversity.com/viewtopic.php?t=2586&start=167

You'll need wmp11 and to open port 41952. Once installed you can enjoy streaming all your media through the 360 onto your tv without windows media connect or windows MCE.

When browsing for video through the 360 you'll need to search for a new computer to connect to. It will be prefixed with tversity.

I can vouch for it and it works perfectly. It transcodes to WMV on the fly.

For those of you who already know this please dont shout Glen (it's gay).For the rest of you: enjoy!

If the video appears blocky you may need to change the max transcode resolution settings from the tversity control panel. It defaults to 400 x 300 which isn't great. There is also some support for 720p but you'll need a dual core cpu apparently.

 

[cHodAX]

There are pitfalls to setting this up. If you have any codec packs like Ace or K-lite uninstall them first, then goto the Tversity website and install the codec packs that they provide links to. You are alot less likely to have problems that way, I spent 2 days fucking around with settings and codecs before I uninstalled K-lite and re-installed all the codecs Tversity recommended, it worked first time like a charm after that.

 

[cHodAX]

If the video appears blocky you may need to change the max transcode resolution settings from the tversity control panel. It defaults to 400 x 300 which isn't great. There is also some support for 720p but you'll need a dual core cpu apparently.

It will upscale PAL DVD resolution (720 x 576) files to 720p on a single core AMD64 3200 just fine, close to 100% cpu usage but it looks good. Trying to transode anything that is above 800x600 to 720p or above and you really do need a decent dual core CPU. I tried transcoding a 720p Xvid to a 720p streaming WMV last night and it started to stutter after 20 seconds of playback, my CPU just couldn't decode such a high resolution Xvid and re-encode it back to a high bitrate WMV quick enough.

 

[Yaka]

tv versity has never been stable for me. often crashing mid way thru a film and needs re starting on pc. and over wifi it b0rks up when someone decides to make a smoother in the kitchen no idea why it does this blend goes on signal dies. its mint over a wired conn tho





wont be long till will have xbmc on 360 hope fully the tux hacker thing is all true

 

[KevinUK]

xvid.avi files dont work for me, just sits there and then times out

What should I re-install to fix that?

 

[cHodAX]

xvid.avi files dont work for me, just sits there and then times out

What should I re-install to fix that?

Exact same problem I had.

Delete all installed codecs and codec packs, then goto the Tversity downloads page and install all the codecs they list down the bottom of the page. Unistall Tversity and reinstall it just to be safe. It should then work. For best results install Media Player 11 but go into the media sharing option and make sure it is turned off, the streaming will then work a treat. If it doesn't work after all that you need to goto the FFDshow audio config program and find the right pane that says....

AC3 liba52 ATSC A-52 stream decoder


Click on the word 'liba52' and a small pull down menu appears. Set it to disabled and then click apply. The AC3 decoding should now be off and Divx/Xvid should work.

 

[Ono]

Thanks for the info Leggy mate but I think I'll wait until the PC upgrade to Vista etc.

The 360 is to bloody loud to act as a decent media player anyway

 

[KevinUK]

Ono, Vista will let you do just what you can do now. Xbox 360 is the problem as it doesnt support anything but .wmv. Im using XP and downloaded "media connect" an XP app to allow streaming of video.

Thanks cHodAX, I just installed the latest FFDShow and it worked

 

[Ono]

Yeah, I know Kev. My point was, until the 360 gets the functionality of a chipped Brick with XBMC I won't bother with it for media streaming.

These days, I just attach one of my laptops to VGA connected to my LCD when I want to watch stuff streamed from my main PC.

 

[psyco]

nice, ill try and get it working, no doubt ill hit a bug or something, you'll be the first to know if i do

 

[psyco]

FFDShow, seems to fuck my computer up, is it really necessary?

ps, the link on the forum, never worked for me so i had to get it from somewhere else(i got a PHP file instead)

and what does it actually do?

 

[KevinUK]

Currently the 360 only supports .wmv files to be watched and so TVersity encodes any file type on your PC and streams a .wmv version to the 360.

So now you can watch xvid, divx etc files on your 360.

Would you rather watch something on your monitor or big fat TV?

Try this direct link
http://download.tversity.com/TVersity_Setup_0_9_9_2.exe

 

[Yaka]

for a big fat tv id take xbmc over this any day. for me its been far to unstable, have to walk back to my room to re start tversity aint fun

 

[cHodAX]

for a big fat tv id take xbmc over this any day. for me its been far to unstable, have to walk back to my room to re start tversity aint fun

It is beta and free, I am sure before long they will have added new things and fixed old problems

 

[psyco]

Currently the 360 only supports .wmv files to be watched and so TVersity encodes any file type on your PC and streams a .wmv version to the 360.

So now you can watch xvid, divx etc files on your 360.

Would you rather watch something on your monitor or big fat TV?

Try this direct link
http://download.tversity.com/TVersity_Setup_0_9_9_2.exe

thanks, im not sure that thats the right program though... FFDShow file was wrong or something

i only have a small tv in my room, and my monitor is wide-screen, so monitor for me

 

[Whipped]

I gave this a try a while back and it worked ok. I'm with Yaka on this one though. Until something like XMBC is able to run on the 360 I'll continue to use my original Xbox to stream from my PC.

 

[leggy]

I've stopped using it already

It's just way too flaky. I'll continue to huddle round my lappy on the bed :/

 

[psyco]

ok, streaming video's from the pc is rather pointless i guess... would have been nice to get it working though...

anywho... i have an ethenet disc(a HD that acts like a pc) it has our entire music library on it, i tried steaming from that it doesn't seem to work, witch is deadly annoying, ill attach the error im getting...

hopefully, someone can give me a hint

yes, i blanked out the file name, but its not relivent, and i believe i highlighted what the ethanet disc is... but im not sure