Just got my xbox 360 the other day and was excited to hear that I can network my home pc's with it and stream music and vids. Upon hearing that the tyrannical product managers at Microsoft only allows us to stream WMV files from a pc, decided to think of a different way to do it other than getting Windows MCE or Zune.

Looking at my options, was pretty much limited to using Tversity. After some noodling around on my router and such setting static IP and port forwarding, then as a last frustrating step trying to figure out why the server wasn't connecting - ended up being because both tversity and mediaserver.exe weren't added as exceptions in my firewall, got it all up and running on my laptop and desktop pcs.

As a test I watched Transporter in real video format, an AVI, a divx movie and a wmv movie and it all streamed pretty well - though of course some of the files that were ripped at lower rez look pretty crappy.

Wondering if there are file size limitations for streaming movies and/or rez for ripped movies? Pretty cool stuff though.

no limitations on size, i streamed a 1080p wmv to my 360 no problem about 6GB filesize), however there are problems playing the ac3 codec, doesn't seem to want to work.

no limitations on size, i streamed a 1080p wmv to my 360 no problem about 6GB filesize), however there are problems playing the ac3 codec, doesn't seem to want to work.

what are you using to rip the vids?

hmm. I streamed a wmv hd, and it was flawless. I tried a 720p avi, and it locked my xbox up. is there anything i can do?

do you have all the codecs and such set up on your pc? On the host pc, try clicking on the vid and seeing if it'll launch on your pc. If it doesn't there, then it won't on your xbox.