Last night I was tinkering with Media Extender on the 360. My son and wife wanted to watch some videos that I had stored on my Synology box as MKV files. Some thoughts:
1) Nowhere do they make it clear that you need to apparently need to add network shares and the library directly on the xbox's instance of Media Center. I browsed the Media Center on my PC and it showed the proper folder structure of my shared library. On the 360, there was no sign until I manually added the folder.
2) I actually wanted to use PlayOn, TVersity or PS3 Media player for the stream functionality...but they apparently all use VLC to stream the files. They do a fine job, EXCEPT that they only list the files with a name and details of AVIDEMUX, which means that in a folder of 26 videos, I can't tell one from another.
And that brings me to my core point, which is...should Media Extender's interface performance is really slow. Is this normal? The system that it's running on its fairly beefy, but the interface via the 360 is like it's in molasses. Is that just the nature of the beast? Navigating the menus became almost comical as I'd press a button and think nothing had happened, then watch a video start and try to stop it and inadvertantly stop and then restart it again.
It wasn't always abysmally slow, but it was far worse performance for the interface than I'd expected.
1) Nowhere do they make it clear that you need to apparently need to add network shares and the library directly on the xbox's instance of Media Center. I browsed the Media Center on my PC and it showed the proper folder structure of my shared library. On the 360, there was no sign until I manually added the folder.
2) I actually wanted to use PlayOn, TVersity or PS3 Media player for the stream functionality...but they apparently all use VLC to stream the files. They do a fine job, EXCEPT that they only list the files with a name and details of AVIDEMUX, which means that in a folder of 26 videos, I can't tell one from another.
And that brings me to my core point, which is...should Media Extender's interface performance is really slow. Is this normal? The system that it's running on its fairly beefy, but the interface via the 360 is like it's in molasses. Is that just the nature of the beast? Navigating the menus became almost comical as I'd press a button and think nothing had happened, then watch a video start and try to stop it and inadvertantly stop and then restart it again.
It wasn't always abysmally slow, but it was far worse performance for the interface than I'd expected.
