The Xbox 360 makes quite a good central media hub connecting you to the internet, allowing you to play games and DVDs, and if you are in the US you can even rent downloadable movies.However watching video from your PC is a little trickier. The Xbox 360 will only play videos from your PC that are in the WMA format. Well it doesn't take a genius to figure your way around that one, convert any non WMA videos on your PC to the WMA format.
Dale Dietrich came across a handy video converter called VLC that easily allows you to batch convert your video files ready for your Xbox360 so you to play your PC video collection through your Xbox 360 on your living room TV.
Unfortunately things aren't perfect and the Xbox 360 will ignore folder structures and just list your files all in one big list and it also cannot rewind or fast forward videos.
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1. I have an xbox360 and watch DIVX files using the transcode360 program. Works pretty well (media center).
Posted at 8:52AM on Nov 25th 2006 by Chris Xbox 360'er