[sushrukh]

" Microsoft’s Xbox 360 gaming console is one of the most popular ever. It’s great for sitting around and playing games with friends and you can even play DVD’s and music CD’s on the console. While this isn’t terribly exciting, if you have a system that is running Windows Media Center (MCE) or Vista Ultimate Edition, you can stream Windows Media Video (WMV) movies to your 360 console over the network.

The down side is that you are forced to use one of these operating systems and the WMV codec isn’t all that good – compression is not that great and although it’s becoming more popular these days, DivX and Xvid are preferred “DVD backup” choice codec’s, shall we say? These lesser mainstream codec’s offer better compression and many folks on the darker side of the Web mostly use this format to distribute movies around the Internet since they are the most 1337 choice among enthusiasts."



Link :- Playing DivX and Xvid content on Xbox 360 – An easy guide! :: TweakTown



I'm not sure if this thread is suitable for this section of this forum or not but i thought it's a nice guide done by Tweaktown & should be shared.If this thread isn't appropriate here , then please feel free to delete it.I'm just trying to post interesting things.That's all.

[Bernardakins]

Winamp remote will do the same thing, although you actually have to buffer the videos before they'll play.
(Music, too!)
Stream video to Xbox 360 with Winamp Remote and Windows Media Player : Pain in the Tech

[sushrukh]

Thanks for the information Bernardakins.

[Yert]

It is such a major improvement that we can now watch them directly on the 360. This was wonderful because I have a number of my files are burned on CDs as 700MB DivX files, so now I can use a 360 to watch. I will note that this is often the only choice some people have, so MS has done well to get DivX support on the 360. Now if only other formats were supported... We can dream can't we?

[sushrukh]

Yep, i agree with that.And yes, maybe some day you'll be able to run other formats on 360 too.

[Larrabee]

It's nice to know this. I don't have any console but I know you can also watch movies with the PS3 with the blue-ray reader.

[ChrisTheFeral]

Originally Posted by Larrabee

It's nice to know this. I don't have any console but I know you can also watch movies with the PS3 with the blue-ray reader.

The PS3 is the only firmware upgradable blu-ray player out there, so if I had a choice I'd go with the PS3.
Plus the GUI is cool

[Larrabee]

I would spend the money to upgrade my PC. I'm not realy a console-fan.

I need my computer to finish school, creating maps, watch movies, play games and so on. With a console you can only play games.

[sushrukh]

Yeah i also love to play FPS games on my PC.I do have a Foxconn gamepad though but i like to play using my Keyboard & mice.

[ChrisTheFeral]

Originally Posted by sushrukh

Yeah i also love to play FPS games on my PC.I do have a Foxconn gamepad though but i like to play using my Keyboard & mice.

Gah, I see this all the time, can somebody please fill me in on what an FPS game is, I know I know it, I just can't remember I always think frames per second.