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Kabal wrote:Also it wont play the good stuff through the Media Centre interface.
Yep, EPIC FAIL.
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Post by AgOnNy »

So, when does this update go live?

I want to watch the new episode of Heroes through it tonight.
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I am guessing it will hit around 6 or 7pm our time.
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Post by Blotto »

cant wait to see what the DivX shit works like
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Kabal wrote:I can't help but feel this will still suck as a media player. Also it wont play the good stuff through the Media Centre interface.
Wait, what? So the codec updates in this dash update will only apply to playing video through the dash, and not the Windows Media Centre thing? WTF?!
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yeah im confused by this also....

care to elaborate a bit on this?
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Post by GreyWizzard »

but who uses windows media centre? I thought it was completely arse myself. I just use the dash stuff. I can play mp4's and wmv from there so what does it matter?
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I'd really like to see sharing become available via something like SMB rather than having to install Zune if you want to stream stuff. Make it so, MS.
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Goes live at 9pm.....
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Post by Shaneus »

Getting now!

Note: it doesn't seem to pick it up straight away when powering on, but did when I went to "Test Connection". Thanks GAF!
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First impressions:

- XBLA is now Games library and loads much quicker
- The blades seem to respond faster, although it was slower to start up first time round (that would be expected though)
- It doesn't show just friends of friends, but also their statuses
- Xbox Originals has an interface with cover art. Looks nice.
- When you change your real name or location for the first time, it tries to default to what looks like your Passport Address details. Freaky.
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its all cool, just needs the old codec packs to be put in, i have heaps a music clips and about 15 out of 140 worked
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Wow, new dash is AWESOME, so much quicker and more responsive than the old one! I like it :)
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Post by jizzlobber »

I want to d/l halo, but will it work via VGA?

update is great, so fast and snappy now, and i'm finally able to use messenger.

has anyone registered 'team cowboy' as a gamertag?
I tried to create it but it was taken, friends of friends is a great way to get TC members onto one tag so we can easily see who is in the "clan" and add them.
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BTW, Zune Media Thingy doesn't seem to like sharing AVI files (prolly because the Zune itself doesn't support AVI) but an install of WMP11 seems to work fine :up:
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Post by AgOnNy »

So... do the videos play based on what codecs are on the 360 or your PC??!!
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someone confirm for jizzy that halo works on VGA please.
Candy Arse wrote: XBONE 900p > PS4 1080p
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I don't think it does
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bah.
Candy Arse wrote: XBONE 900p > PS4 1080p
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I think I'll get Halo as well. A friend wrecked my original and I want to go through all three back-to-back-to-back. Sounds good to me!
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For fucks sake margaret.

I just spent the last 5 hours trying to get media center extender to work with my laptop. Finally figured out I had to uninstall my fingerprint login devices for it to work to realise that Media Center doesn't utilise these new codecs. What the fuck?! What's the fucking point then? If you're going to do it, do it right.

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Post by Twiztid Elf »

Put file on USB flash drive, insert into XB360, play file if it is a supported codec (most are).
5mins<5hours. :D

But if you really have to stream across your network, just get tversity and forget the standard stuff. TVersity will encode stuff on the fly too, so any file will play.
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Post by mech »

XBMC >>>> ALL

I've got 3 TVs at my place, each with an Xbox hooked up, so copying shit to a device is next to useless... every now and again we even pause a show and move between devices. So decent networking is a must, and nothing beyond XBMC can do it sadly :(
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Yeah, it's really a wonder that someone hasn't snapped up (or at least tried to license, even just blatantly rip off) XBMC. Wouldn't be hard, given that it's open source afaik.
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Madmya wrote:For fucks sake margaret.

I just spent the last 5 hours trying to get media center extender to work with my laptop. Finally figured out I had to uninstall my fingerprint login devices for it to work to realise that Media Center doesn't utilise these new codecs. What the fuck?! What's the fucking point then? If you're going to do it, do it right.

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DON'T USE MEDIA CENTRE.

Just select Videos > Change Source > Select the laptop > voila!

Oh, make sure you're sharing the required folders through WMP - but remember that WMP DOES NOT need to be open when streaming the files.
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