Streaming video from PC to 360 advice

Goose+ · August 28th, 2007, 08:58 PM

Can someone please reccomend a decent video converter that can do AVI to WMV?

It has to be Vista 32bit compatible and actually do a decent job at converting. I'm really struggling to find this.

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cvrefugee · August 28th, 2007, 09:45 PM

Windows Movie Maker

swek · August 28th, 2007, 10:20 PM

If you happen to have Vista with MCE you'll need this.

http://runtime360.com/blog/

Allows you to stream everything directly to the 360 without any format restrictions.

RoamingGnome · September 2nd, 2007, 03:26 AM

If you do not have the MCE then your only other option (ASAIK) is TVersity. It works marginally well, I used to run it on XP for a while although I did get so fed up with it I finally installed an MCE in VPC with T360 and this works soooo much better.

Problems with TVersity are the media library interface on the PC is probably the most ugly and least functional of anything I have seen; you can't skip ahead or back ( so you're forced to watch the whole thing again if your system happened to crash 45 min into the program - and it will ); it gobbles memory like it's its job (probably is) and does have tendency to crash more than now and then.

It also does not support video playlists/categories/folders so if you happen to have hundreds of them, well get ready to scroll until your fingers fall off.

But, however horrible, it is a solution no less if no MCE is available and in all fairness, the streamed PQ was very good when it worked.

mike4192 · September 2nd, 2007, 08:29 PM

You can try encode 360, link here

If you dont care about quality, then dont do this converter, this one is mainly for people, like me, who want to stream HD stuff but need to convert it to WMV without any quality loss.

August 28th, 2007, 08:58 PM	#1
Goose+ Previously Known As TopGearFan+ Joined: Oct 11th, 2006 Last Online: Yesterday Location: England Age: 18 Posts: 809 Car: Honda Jazz Rep Power: 12	Streaming video from PC to 360 advice Can someone please reccomend a decent video converter that can do AVI to WMV? It has to be Vista 32bit compatible and actually do a decent job at converting. I'm really struggling to find this. Thanks __________________ DOGS

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mike4192 Joined: Jan 29th, 2007 Last Online: August 19th, 2008 Location: New Jersey, USA Posts: 24 Rep Power: 0	You can try encode 360, link here If you dont care about quality, then dont do this converter, this one is mainly for people, like me, who want to stream HD stuff but need to convert it to WMV without any quality loss. __________________ (sig and avatar idea taken from garpland)

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cvrefugee Joined: Aug 16th, 2004 Last Online: 02:15 AM Location: Corona, CA Age: 28 Posts: 3,450 Car: 2005 Scion xB Rep Power: 60	Windows Movie Maker

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swek Global Moderator Joined: May 19th, 2004 Last Online: Yesterday Location: Hamburg, Germany Age: 26 Posts: 4,345 Car: Does a bicycle count? Rep Power: 47	If you happen to have Vista with MCE you'll need this. http://runtime360.com/blog/ Allows you to stream everything directly to the 360 without any format restrictions.

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RoamingGnome Joined: Feb 13th, 2006 Last Online: 03:15 AM Location: East Coast USA Posts: 226 Car: 01 Grand Cherokee V8, 97 Thunderbird Rep Power: 12	If you do not have the MCE then your only other option (ASAIK) is TVersity. It works marginally well, I used to run it on XP for a while although I did get so fed up with it I finally installed an MCE in VPC with T360 and this works soooo much better. Problems with TVersity are the media library interface on the PC is probably the most ugly and least functional of anything I have seen; you can't skip ahead or back ( so you're forced to watch the whole thing again if your system happened to crash 45 min into the program - and it will ); it gobbles memory like it's its job (probably is) and does have tendency to crash more than now and then. It also does not support video playlists/categories/folders so if you happen to have hundreds of them, well get ready to scroll until your fingers fall off. But, however horrible, it is a solution no less if no MCE is available and in all fairness, the streamed PQ was very good when it worked.

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