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360 a good choice for a media streamer?
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monwild22
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11. December 2010 @ 02:21 |
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Hello everyone,
We have been looking to get a media streamer set up with our HD TV in our living room to stream movies from our computer upstairs, as well as to watch on demand movies from Netflix. My first thought was either the ViewSonic NexTV VMP75 or the Western Digital WD TV Live Plus based on some positive reviews I read. I then was considering the Logitech Revue with Google TV but was disappointed with the reviews it was receiving. I then stumbled upon the article on AfterDawn "Stream Multimedia to Xbox 360 with TVersity".
http://www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/stream_video_xbox_360_tversity.cfm
Since we just bought a Kinect for the TV down there, I thought this might be a viable solution since we would kill 2 birds with one stone. Any ideas on this and whether it is a good idea or not? Thanks for all of your help in advance!
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m4r0v3r
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11. December 2010 @ 07:42 |
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Depends how you want to stream, if your just streaming AVI file's that you own then yeah it's great, but if your streaming a format that the XBOX doesn't support such as MKV then you have yourself a problem. Although I think Tversity has the ability to transcode
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11. December 2010 @ 07:56 |
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monwild22
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11. December 2010 @ 14:12 |
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Thanks for the replies. From what I can think of now, I would only be looking at streaming AVI and MP4 to the 360.
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bludd
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11. December 2010 @ 15:24 |
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Check out the LG BD570 blu ray player, it has netflix, vudu, youtube etc, plays blurays, mkvs and is DLNA compliant. I also have a ps3, 360 and the WD HD TV live and prefer the lg player over the others for streaming as it's just easy to use and the 360 as the worst of the 4 as you have to pay for a gold membership to use netflix and the 360 just doesn't do a whole lot of media well.
PS3 would be my second choice but for the price I'd go with the LG player which I got for $120. The WD HD device seems to be something I'd want to sell now since the LG player does about everything the WD does and plays bluray.
Also check out something called cinavia, it's a new copy protection put in on new media players. What it will do is cut out audio at a certain point during playback so you won't be able to backup your blurays which have this copy protection.
Some movies that have it already are like RE Afterlife, Salt, Karate Kid and there is no workaround for it now unless you strip the audio from a DVD and put it on your bluray rip. It's something you want to check out if the system you are buying already has it installed. The LG bd570 had it on an older firmware but it's newest has it removed.
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monwild22
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11. December 2010 @ 18:23 |
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I would love to check out that blu ray player, but we already have one built into our audio reciever and it seems repetitive to buy another one...but it does have the features I am looking for.
If we have two 360's in the house, would they both have to have their own Live accounts? The 360 upstairs is for online gaming, and the one downstairs would be for the Kinect the Netflix/streaming.
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11. December 2010 @ 18:37 |
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I gave up on using a 360 for media purposes quite along time ago. It's just too limited and can be quite a hassle even with TVersity.
These days I use a Popcorn Hour. No encoding, decoding, converting; nothing. It'll play all video and audio formats. There's no messing around.
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marcusj0015
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21. December 2010 @ 06:49 |
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21. December 2010 @ 06:57 |
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Originally posted by marcusj0015:
i stream 1080P MKV Files From My Windows 7 Pc to My Xbox 360 and it works flawlessly
the trick is to install divx codec pack and stream from Windows Media Center!
I've heard streaming with media center was much better than tversity but I didn't know it'd handle 1080 MKV no problem. Are you streaming wirelessly?
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marcusj0015
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21. December 2010 @ 07:15 |
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no im streaming through ethernet
and the mkv HAS TO BE PROFILE 4.1 NOT ANYTHING HIGHER
it might work higher but it dosent stream for shit
it will stutter all the way throught if its higher than 4.1
you can make it profile 4.1 with MKVToolnix
just remux it and set it to profile 4.1
i don't have an xbox wireless adapter
but i tried streaming it from my wifi laptop and it was 802.11 G and it stuttered
n might work idk about n
This message has been edited since posting. Last time this message was edited on 21. December 2010 @ 07:20
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21. December 2010 @ 10:06 |
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Originally posted by w00ly:
I've heard streaming with media center was much better than tversity but I didn't know it'd handle 1080 MKV no problem. Are you streaming wirelessly?
MC will handle anything with the right codecs. Just Google "Media Center", "codec", and the format you want.
The stuttering is coming from too high of a bitrate. You can use a lower bitrate, but also, if you go too low then you're defeating the purpose of hi def as you lose quality.
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rtmax2000
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2. May 2011 @ 10:16 |
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I'm currently streaming via PS3 using PS3 Media Server on my PC. I chose this software because of countless hrs of trying to steam MKV's with Tversity and no success. PS3 media server with stream MKV's without any issues, that's if you are using the PS3. Now, there is an issue with the Playstation 3 that is called Cinavia. Play Station had this installed with Firmware version 3.41 or 43. I'm not quite sure but the latest firmware is 3.50 which gives PS3 the capablilty to play 3D Blu-Rays, but Cinavia goes along with the update. Bummer. I guess you can't have your cake and eat it huh? That is why I leaning towards purchasing Media Player. I am still undecided as to the Western Digital WDBABF0000NBK or Viewsonic VMP75. Both do not have Cinavia and both cost the same with HDMI and Optical outputs. Optical if you have home theater to connect to.
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