By: Martin

Martin — Thu, 18 Aug 2016 22:11:51 +0000

there are many formats which Xbox 360 will play.
This is in fact not completely true. For me it has been a massive head scratcher and the wonderful microsoft in all its infinite wisdom continues to patch the multitude of codecs that come out with every new update that they apply to the brilliant yet locked down Xbox so no it is not completely true! the only way that has worked for me is to circumvent the limitations of formats that you can play on xbox 360 by using either a home server like plex media that converts the files on the fly so by the time the xbox recieves the files it is tricked into believing it is a xbox friendly format (whatever that means) I never used the windows version of plex because yet again you had to pay for streaming your own local library. cue the fantastic raspberry Pi! Rasplex was brilliant, unfortunately my other family members complained that it was unuserfriendly which I had to agree if you werent at least a little bit tech savvy it could be daunting. anyway Bubble UpNp, Avia and especially Splashtop streamers were all great window alternatives as they encoded again on the fly and are free with limitations set of course. I found out that you had to by the pro versions of Avia and Bubble UpnP to get them to stream more than 5 minutes or something like that. Given that these android apps were under a fiver and actually work brilliantly It wasnt a hard choice to make when it came to parting with that hard earned cash. this is all history now with the advent of Windows 8.1 and Windows 10 which both have the “Play To” or “Stream To” Feature built in respectively. All my other suggestions are aimed at those of us who may use more than one OS and want to try out different ways of streaming their media on their local home networks. As for now I am fairly pleased with what Microsoft have done with Windows 10 albeit they now push updates to you and you can do nothing about it unless you have the Pro or Ultimate versions of Windows. That has to count for something coming from someone who left windows when vista arrived! what an abyssmal failure that was! I started using Puppy Linux and never looked back until the support seemed to dwindle and the incompatabilties started to get on ,my nerves!
For Now Windows is my Os of choice, when the kids have left home I will probably return to some a unix system of some form or another! God forbid you should ever try to play a film from a usb thumb drive on your Xbox 360, good luck finding a format that it will actually play!??!!! 😉

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