Xbox

[mdavila]

Was just curious as to what other peoples setups were to stream the live TV to their actual TV's.

I got a modded Xbox that plays my divx and mpeg movies that on a wireless network.. streaming from my file server in the house. I use the xbox as a gaming system and basically a media client to connect to my server and watch pictures, movies, and listen to mp3's. Once the xbox comes down a little more.. ill prolly get one for the bedroom and repeat process.

[KJ_88]

I have also "modded" my Xbox and it work GREAT to play my WMV recordings on my TV. I stream the videos off my computer so I can watch it right after it is done recording.

This is a great setup for anyone who has an Xbox

[jasonrushton]

Are your xboxes able to play movies larger than 2gb? Mine won't. The file either won't play at all, or at the 2g mark it starts from the beginning again.

[mdavila]

No this is due to XBOX file system limitations. I split the movies in 1 gb files and turn on auto stacking in my media player and they all play in a row.

[jasonrushton]

No this is due to XBOX file system limitations

Actually I'm not storing the files on the xbox's hard drive. I'm sharing them via RelaX and SMB from my PC, in which there should be no 2gb limit. But I'm still limited to 2gb.

How are you splitting into 1gb files? Can this automated somehow?

[mdavila]

If not the file system its the OS. I definetly read in multiple places that xbox has a 1-2 gig file limit size. I use Dr. Divx. You can batch multiple jobs.. then run it over night.

[Rita]

I'm planning to mod my XBox to play DivX videos on DVDs. I haven't heard of the 2gb limitation before-does this apply to playing Divx off the DVD player too?

[jasonrushton]

mdavila, I have read conflicting information from various XBMP release notes...

XboxMediaPlayer 2.4 point release notes state
"Support for MPEG & OGM files larger than 2GB (not OpenDML AVI's) (NEW!)".

From CVS build 3-8-2003 release notes:
- fix 2gb limit for relax/local hd

From CVS build 1-24-2003 release notes:
- fix files > 2gb & FFWD for mpeg2

So back in September I submitted a XBMP bug on SourceForge.

The same problem exists in XBOX Media Center.

Rita, I don't have a DVD burner so I can't test that.

[jbslayer]

didnt i hear that snapstream using the qcast/game shark media player and a network work for outputing to the tv or am i mistaken?

[SSzretter]

Hey- what are you people using for settings in snapstream for capture and recompression?

I set up Relax, and the streaming works fine for stuff I have captured and recompressed, but I think it looks horrible compared to other divx movies I have gotten from friends...

Im using a PVR-250 with 'best' capture quality, then recompression to DIVX, and I have tried I think home theater quality which was real yucky and grainy, then I tried 'best', and while it was a lot better, it was still not very good....

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