Streaming or watching media through xbox 360?

nel

I was just wondering if anyone watches video's through there 360? I have alot of media content on an external drive - music, family vids, pics etc and are looking for an multimedia system. Preferably i dont want to speed £200+ on another piece of kit to sit next to the TV and i know the 360 can stream from a media centre PC (which i dont have).

Now i was wondering if anyone know if you can hook up the external drive to the 360 and play all of the content directly from the HDD without the aid of a pc?.

Ive noticed there are things like XBMC and VME etc. Has anyone used these are have any suggestions for what i need?

Cheers

dynamik

You don't have XP or Vista?

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/pcsetup/xpsp2.htm

nel

dynamik wrote:

You don't have XP or Vista?

http://www.xbox.com/en-US/pcsetup/xpsp2.htm

Sadly i do lol! But was hoping to be able to do it without a pc if possible.

dynamik

http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/mods/USB%20Hard%20Drive%20Mod.htm

networker050184

dynamik, are you a search engine

nel

dynamik wrote:

http://www.llamma.com/xbox360/mods/USB Hard Drive Mod.htm

Thanks for the link mate. i already have an external drive and was hoping to plug it in directly as in the pic on the link. but i was more interested in soloutions which allow you to view media on the hdd using a 360? similar to media centre or apple TV but directly on the 360 and not having to stream it from a pc?

dynamik

All you have to do is go to media and select device. There's no special software; it's all built into the dashboard. You can also do things like listen to non-drm tracks off your ipod as well. Just plug it in and go!

I only posted that link to make sure you aware of the partitioning/formatting requirements because I hit that snag when I set this up myself.

Networker: It's just easy to provide info when I've done these tasks before. I think it's just a coincidence that my interests align so closely with others here. I wish I was a search engine though; I'd probably make a killing with AdWords!

Luckycharms

+1 for streaming to Xbox... I actually have a computer that is all it does is collect/transcode(if-needed)/Stream... I found I like the WindowsMediaPlayer 11 route la ot better then some of the ways of sending the stream.

snadam

dynamik wrote:

All you have to do is go to media and select device. There's no special software; it's all built into the dashboard. You can also do things like listen to non-drm tracks off your ipod as well. Just plug it in and go!

I only posted that link to make sure you aware of the partitioning/formatting requirements because I hit that snag when I set this up myself.

Networker: It's just easy to provide info when I've done these tasks before. I think it's just a coincidence that my interests align so closely with others here. I wish I was a search engine though; I'd probably make a killing with AdWords!

yea I streamed from my PC cause I have the stereo downstairs and all the music upstairs. It works VERY well.