Newegg: MCE 2005

MCE is no longer required for the 360 to stream media from your pc. (unless you want streaming live TV) The only thing required now is Windows Media Player 11.

This is a bit of a thread hijack, but assuming you have XP installed and you have Media Player 11.......can you stream DIVX yet, what about .TS files?

Not with WMP 11, you would need to use transcode360 for that.

What I had to do get WMP11 to work with the 360 was reinstall WMP10 and 360 media connect and check the connection to the 360. Once that connection was confirmed, I reinstalled WMP11 and it has worked ever since.

After much investigation, I found out the culprit was a service that I had turned off!

Be sure to check your services.

I purchased this from Newegg a couple of months ago. It was MCE 2005. This is what was printed on the CDs, and this is what the OS reported. My 360 connected to it just fine when I finished the installation and installed the extender software from Microsoft.

Though I have to admit that I don't hold much faith that the upgrade to receive the Vista software will go smoothly. The company that is handling the upgrade is very slow about answering their email and there are no phone numbers that you can call to answer questions.
Newegg however claims that they will stand behind the upgrade processes, but when I spoke with them about a problem that I was having (received a message that the upgrade serial number was already used) I received nothing but canned responses from Newegg along the lines of: "give it a few days they are having issues with the site" or "we will look into it and someone will contact you".

I guess I'll find out in about a month just how sound my decision was to go the upgrade route. However now I'm wishing that I would have just invested a couple hundred bucks in a Technet subscription and would have been able to download the final retail version of Vista.

TVersity will stream DivX and a variety of other formats without the need for MCE. However it's an ongoing project so at the moment you cannot FF or rewind while streaming certain file types.

http://www.tversity.com/

I bought the same thing awhile back. It's MCE2005 to me. There were 3 disks in the package. Took longer to install because I had to swap in the 2nd disk. I'm not sure what the 3rd disk was for...maybe an update, but since I was online, I did the update that way instead.

The downside of relying on TVersity's on-the-fly transcoding is that the transcoded result is saved to play faster and with skip-ahead later, approximately doubling your storage requirements even if you end up never playing that video again. I don't know if any of the MCE 'fixes' that do the same transcoding leave the result behind, or if TVersity will eventually make it an option to save.

I think that until Microsoft lets us stream anything we want, taking the time to convert to WMV is a better deal. WinAVI is fairly painless...

I just checked mine for kicks and it's V2002 also and I started with MCE 2005 so I think you're fine.

Yes, the OEM version of MCE works with the XBOX 360 with full functionality. If you ever need to reinstall you will not be able to legally re-authenticate your installation. Microsoft sucks!

If your 360 can detect you computer but will not connect to it for some reason. Go to the System Blade, then Select Computer, then select Disconnect, Then go back to the Media Blade and try to reconnect to the computer.

Doing this worked for me

You just have to call them up and tell them the hard drive failed or what ever. I've done that when I've had to reinstall. One time it was a motherboard failure.

Same here...