I've read the guide here, but I'm not in the mood to download tons of software/codes to do it that way. I have some mkv and vob files. I know the Xbox 360 doesn't play any of these, even through an external HDD. I recently bought the wireless N adapter, and I have a D-Link DIR-655.
I basically want to stream these formats to the Xbox 360 without any quality loss. Should I convert to WMV-HD and stream with Windows Media Player, and if so what converter should I use?
How does TVersity compare (quality/smoothness wise) as supposed to first converting to a different format and then streaming it through some software? Also is Windows Media Player the best for streaming to the 360?
i wanted to stream MKV to my PS3, but found out it wouldn't really suppose them ether. Then i found MKV2VOB which seems to be a PS3 app. But once i used it to convert them the Xbox would play them also. I use windows media player for the PS3 stream and windows media center for the Xbox to stream. both are built into windows 7.
It will convert anything to wmv and all codecs etc are built in.
I convert mkvs with it and although it takes quite a while to do the resulting picture quality is superb. It will retain all audio channels as well, or you have the option to just use stero to save a bit of space It can have a crash issue when using the CBR setting, so I recommend using the vbr (variable bite rate) setting and set the video to about 93% to start with, see how it goes. You can end up with quite large files over 10Gb in size if you use 98% video.
Although Dan has produced encodeHD since, I still find encode360 the best program for film conversion for the 360, as the interface is quite simple.
For my media streaming I use a 2TB Lacie NAS to store my films on and as it now has media sharing (using SAMBA) on the configuration menu the 360 picks it up as a storage device in the "play videos" option, without the need to use Windows Media Extender.
I found Tversity very clunky and wouldn't hold the bitrate, (very blocky), so I would use Windows Media Center, if you are streaming through the extender, for best bitrate.
