What's amusing about all of this is that Microsoft brought it on themselves by crippling the media playback capabilities of the 360. If the had supported QT, AVI, DivX, XviD, etc from day one (or provided a way to add playback codecs for those people who wanted them) and allowed streaming from a standard SMB network share - I suspect many of those people clamouring for a way to run unsigned code would be happy... Personally, the only thing I want to see on the 360 is XBMC (to support HD content that the Xbox1 XBMC can't handle).
Using programs like TVersity to act as media center for your PC while running something like ffdshow to decode still turns out pretty decent on the 360 as long as your source medium is high resolution.
Personally I don't mind it too much because it saves me from voiding the warranty and hacking up a new drive to store all my files on. The downside for slower systems is that it decodes on the fly with the PC, so unless you're running a dual core you might notice some lag.
For me so far I haven't had any problems using this method, media - computer - tversity detected as it connects to my router and finds my system.
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What's amusing about all of this is that Microsoft brought it on themselves by crippling the media playback capabilities of the 360.
If the had supported QT, AVI, DivX, XviD, etc from day one (or provided a way to add playback codecs for those people who wanted them) and allowed streaming from a standard SMB network share - I suspect many of those people clamouring for a way to run unsigned code would be happy...
Personally, the only thing I want to see on the 360 is XBMC (to support HD content that the Xbox1 XBMC can't handle).
Using programs like TVersity to act as media center for your PC while running something like ffdshow to decode still turns out pretty decent on the 360 as long as your source medium is high resolution.
Personally I don't mind it too much because it saves me from voiding the warranty and hacking up a new drive to store all my files on. The downside for slower systems is that it decodes on the fly with the PC, so unless you're running a dual core you might notice some lag.
For me so far I haven't had any problems using this method, media - computer - tversity detected as it connects to my router and finds my system.