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xbox 360 extender mkv support?

  • 08-01-2010 8:59am
    #1
    subway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭


    hi,
    just setting up my first extender and having some difficulties, i guess...

    my setup is as follows
    windows 7 media centre in front room
    router beside media centre
    windows 7 ultimate pc upstairs in bedroom 2 acting as a server (all video files except recorded tv are on this machine)
    xbox 360 in bedroom 1 acting as extender
    everything is hardwired to the router with cat 5 cables.

    when i load an xvid via the 360 from the video library in the extender software i get a little bit of stuttering then plays fine (with maybe a frame dropped here and there)
    when i play an mkv i get loads of stuttering and evetually freezes or crashes the xbox.

    in the 7mc downstairs i have video library setup using the full server adddress \\media-7-server\videos

    can anyone advise where i should be looking in my setup?


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  • #2
    SouperComputer
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,949 ✭✭✭SouperComputer


    Check CPU utilization on the "server" when the Xbox360 is playing the files. They are not streamed raw, they are transcoded to a format the Xbox360 likes, then streamed. Transcoding a 1080p mkv on the fly is going to be hard on even the beefiest CPU.

    Another possibility is a network bottleneck on the server end. You should have a 1Gb card in there, connected to a switch that has a 1Gb port of course. Keep the clients at 100Mb/s however.

    HTH


  • #3
    subway
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,131 ✭✭✭subway


    ahhh, wasnt aware of the transcoding required.
    the server is very low rent

    cheers


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