Putting movies on the xbox 360

fetishphil

Can you put movies that you downloaded and tranfer on to the xbox 360 memory from a lap top

niallon

Nope. Stream wirelessly or view from a memory stick is all

siblers

It's fairly easy to stream anyways which is what I do, can use Windows Media Player, Tversity or Vuze. Streaming is probably better anyways and you can acess all your catalogue of films etc in the one spot. Without having to waste time transfering them.

evolutionqy7

why does every one keep pushing the streaming.

it sucks that you have to have your pc on at the same time. waste of electricity. Either way try setting up Windows Media Center with 10k+ songs see how that works

forzacalcio

I bought an xbox today in Harvey Normans and was told I could copy movies onto the Harddrive, this was one of the main reasons I bought this, have I been shafted here? Whats the point of 250gb?

GAAman

forzacalcio wrote: »

I bought an xbox today in Harvey Normans and was told I could copy movies onto the Harddrive, this was one of the main reasons I bought this, have I been shafted here? Whats the point of 250gb?

Well it could be one of two things, either the person told you that you could copy games onto the hard drive (which you can do) and you misheard them (it happens trust me) or they were mistaken/lying

The good thing about the big hard drive is most full games will be around the 7GB mark so if you got the 4GB one instead you would not be able to download games from xbox live or store them on your hard drive

forzacalcio

No I definatly asked if I could copy movies ( the reason being my media player doesnt play .mkv files so he said yeah you can copy them over) so I thought 200 euro was daylight robbery, again I suoppose if it seems too good to be true it usually is!

matrim

forzacalcio wrote: »

No I definatly asked if I could copy movies ( the reason being my media player doesnt play .mkv files so he said yeah you can copy them over) so I thought 200 euro was daylight robbery, again I suoppose if it seems too good to be true it usually is!

I don't think the xbox plays mkv files.

forzacalcio

matrim wrote: »

I don't think the xbox plays mkv files.

Shafted twice, I usually do alot of research before hand, this is why, my own fault I guess, cheers for the help.

evolutionqy7

forzacalcio wrote: »

I bought an xbox today in Harvey Normans and was told I could copy movies onto the Harddrive, this was one of the main reasons I bought this, have I been shafted here? Whats the point of 250gb?

were on the same boat.

was so pissed of to find out about that at least my wii can play movies of the HDD

Slugs

Doesn't tversity allow you to play them on your xbox.

Dude you can just stream to the xbox instead of putting it on the hard drive. If you can use tversity, you should have no problem. w/o it, you can still stream any AVI file to the xbox. So just convert your .mkv to .avi

Xluna

If you have an external hard drive you can watch them on the 360 via the usb, so long as they are compatible. Though I'm sure there is software on the net that could convert files on your laptop before playing them on your 360. As far as I'm aware you can't store videos or DVDs on your 360 hard drive. Maybe he was talking about Netflix in the US or something. I doubt it. Moral of the story is never trust a salesman hungry for commission.

As for the point of the large hard drive? Well I have a 120 GB and mainly use it for arcade games, DLC and installing retail games on my 360.(Trust me it's worth it, no noisy loading and less loading times.)

evolutionqy7

Slugs wrote: »

Doesn't tversity allow you to play them on your xbox.

Dude you can just stream to the xbox instead of putting it on the hard drive. If you can use tversity, you should have no problem. w/o it, you can still stream any AVI file to the xbox. So just convert your .mkv to .avi

yeah try streaming with a three mifi modem

Slugs

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

yeah try streaming with a three mifi modem

And what relevance is that? After all if you're worried about using up your dl cap, you can just run an ethernet cable from the pc to the xbox. I had no problem with that before, unless they got rid of the ability in the newer models/updates

evolutionqy7

Slugs wrote: »

And what relevance is that? After all if you're worried about using up your dl cap, you can just run an ethernet cable from the pc to the xbox. I had no problem with that before, unless they got rid of the ability in the newer models/updates

Yeah pc upstairs and xbox downstairs
Im telling ya this was the worst thing that hit me in the balls when i got it.

Ive got an Xbox this time cause i always used to get Playstations and thought i needed a change. Even though i do like it more than PS3 i would still would love to be able to copy and paste content onto it like you can in the PS3

murphyaii

if you have all your movies downloaded on a external hard drive on your pc, like me!
unplug the external hard drive and connect it into the usb on your xbox360.
play games straight away without streaming,

tada!!

cython

murphyaii wrote: »

if you have all your movies downloaded on a external hard drive on your pc, like me!
unplug the external hard drive and connect it into the usb on your xbox360.
play games straight away without streaming,

tada!!

Unless of course they're mkv's, as has already been pointed out. And as for the suggestion of converting to AVI, many mkvs will go well over the 4GB file size limit that FAT32 (which AFAIK the HDD needs to be) imposes on files while maintaining the same quality, so it's far from an ideal solution too.

murphyaii

other option is to convert the mkv's to avi and then stream them from your pc using tversity.

but of course that would be your last resort

maximoose

cython wrote: »

Unless of course they're mkv's, as has already been pointed out. And as for the suggestion of converting to AVI, many mkvs will go well over the 4GB file size limit that FAT32 (which AFAIK the HDD needs to be) imposes on files while maintaining the same quality, so it's far from an ideal solution too.

I convert my MKVs into AVIs and then split the file if necessary, works a treat

As for streaming I tried that and found it too laggy at times, probably just my router. I have a 1.5tb hard drive that just sits plugged into the xbox for watching my vids.

evolutionqy7

murphyaii wrote: »

if you have all your movies downloaded on a external hard drive on your pc, like me!
unplug the external hard drive and connect it into the usb on your xbox360.
play games straight away without streaming,

tada!!

Or your wd passport hdd might not want to work with it.

enfant terrible

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Yeah pc upstairs and xbox downstairs
Im telling ya this was the worst thing that hit me in the balls when i got it.

Ive got an Xbox this time cause i always used to get Playstations and thought i needed a change. Even though i do like it more than PS3 i would still would love to be able to copy and paste content onto it like you can in the PS3

Get some powerline adapters to connect your pc to your xbox.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-PA201-Starter-Powerline-Ethernet/dp/B002H0Y9G2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=computers&qid=1288736555&sr=8-1

You can then stream everything through tversity.

tommy21

you can directly connect yovr xbox to your laptop and skip router let me know if you want instructions.

Dymo

Why is it when I have a movie on my computer upstairs into my xbox folder it could take up to a day for the XBox to see the file. I nearly always end up putting it on a memory stick and playing it from there, but then the next day the file is viewable.

evolutionqy7

enfant terrible wrote: »

Get some powerline adapters to connect your pc to your xbox.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/TP-Link-TL-PA201-Starter-Powerline-Ethernet/dp/B002H0Y9G2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=computers&qid=1288736555&sr=8-1

You can then stream everything through tversity.

Ahh i dont see the point in this discussion anymore. Why should i spend extra money on that?

At the end of the day you cant put movies or music on it (unless your rip your 200 CD's onto it :O ).

You might be able via home brew if your on the old Xbox 360 but if your on the 360S your ****ed. Streaming is a pain in the hole. Means i have to go upstairs and turn the PC on. Just pointless effort. 40% of the reason why i bought it and alot of people who did bought it for entertainment purposes. And then we get a kick between the two nuts.

I did the research on what movies it can play, but the fact that your not allowed to put stuff on the 250GB HDD (which was the reason i didn't take 4GB) didn't even come into my mind .

Copy paste should be allowed. But hey wtf can u do

enfant terrible

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Ahh i dont see the point in this discussion anymore. Why should i spend extra money on that?

At the end of the day you cant put movies or music on it (unless your rip your 200 CD's onto it :O ).

You might be able via home brew if your on the old Xbox 360 but if your on the 360S your ****ed. Streaming is a pain in the hole. Means i have to go upstairs and turn the PC on. Just pointless effort. 40% of the reason why i bought it and alot of people who did bought it for entertainment purposes. And then we get a kick between the two nuts.

I did the research on what movies it can play, but the fact that your not allowed to put stuff on the 250GB HDD (which was the reason i didn't take 4GB) didn't even come into my mind .

Copy paste should be allowed. But hey wtf can u do

Your welcome

Slugs

evolutionqy7 wrote: »

Ahh i dont see the point in this discussion anymore. Why should i spend extra money on that?

At the end of the day you cant put movies or music on it (unless your rip your 200 CD's onto it :O ).

You might be able via home brew if your on the old Xbox 360 but if your on the 360S your ****ed. Streaming is a pain in the hole. Means i have to go upstairs and turn the PC on. Just pointless effort. 40% of the reason why i bought it and alot of people who did bought it for entertainment purposes. And then we get a kick between the two nuts.

I did the research on what movies it can play, but the fact that your not allowed to put stuff on the 250GB HDD (which was the reason i didn't take 4GB) didn't even come into my mind .

Copy paste should be allowed. But hey wtf can u do

Then trade it in and get a ps3, and stop wasting all our time.

Gooch2k4

Funny thing is he will have to do the same thing on the PS3

Mr.Crinklewood

..by any miracle, has anyone worked out a way of copying movie files to the xbox?

evolutionqy7

You cant. Not without hacking it