Stream Orb content to your Xbox 360

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Deathtrap3000 — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

Just the think??

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FlyLikeAMouse — Wed, 20 Feb 2008 19:44:08 GMT

Meh...Media Center FTW (if you ask me)

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Acydtrip (gamertag) — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 23:43:14 GMT

Alot of the video I have stored on my PC is Qucktime (.mov). This works well with Mpeg, WMV and AVI. Does anyone know of something that would work with Quicktime Video? I don't want monkey around converting 4gb of quicktime files to avi or wmv. I had experimented last year with converting WMV and AVI to MP4 to organize in Itunes and play on my Ipod. (I don't want to even talk about the time it took to convert) . As an example It took me 13 hours to convert Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom to MP4 (320x240) from a 8X DVD ROM.I don't want to go through that to veiw those videos on my xbox360.

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bonzy11 — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:06:45 GMT

I have been using TVersity, then tried Orb.

Orb is better in pretty much every aspect, namely:

1. Video thumbnail previews

2. 5.1 support (unless my ears are tricking me)

3. Auto refresh of updated content

My only problem is some videos tend to suffer from framerate (stutter) issues. Perhaps an update will fix this?

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jason L. — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 15:18:11 GMT

I have had no trouble using it for audio files and pictures but I have had some problems playing mpg and divx video files. Recommended if you already dont have media center or anything else. Plus you can have your playlist and have it posted on your blog or myspace for others to access.

http//tinyurl.com/pv8do

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Choxieota Tsioc — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 09:15:19 GMT

all transcoding reduces the quality of the file, that's we keep begging microsoft to support commonly used video codecs. There are free codecs that are widely used, but for some reason MS wants to force us to use their proprietary codecs.

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John Q Taxpayer — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 04:17:20 GMT

Meh... just got Windows Media Player 11... works like a charm. Only plays WMVs, but they've got conversion programs for that, now don't they? WMP 11 works on XP... you don't have to go Media Center or Vista.

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carg0 — Sat, 24 Mar 2007 03:04:24 GMT

Just finished trying it out.

Bottom Line: If you just want to be able to play ALL of your media files (divX, Xvid, Mpeg, avi, etc) it works great but the quality (resolution) of the video is severly reduced.

Not worth the effort.

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Ban — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 22:18:10 GMT

Reply to ron's comment.. they don't allow 360 to do it because it opens up Microsoft to legal poundings, perhaps from the same people that are pounding YouTube at the moment. :)

They want 360 to be capable of it, but perhaps they dont want to make it capable themselves for obvious reasons. Easier to let a third party do it, leaves them in the clear and it's less work for them. 360 owners win, regardless!

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ron — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 19:29:51 GMT

strange that a program like ORB is mentioned here on this microsoft approved site.

ORB can transcode divx, xvid and all the formats the 360 wont do by itself, so why isnt this labeled as kinda pirate software?

If microsoft wanted the 360 to play .avi files I guess they could do an easy update?

(and they would for sure sell more consoles just with this 5 cents update trick)

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Joe221 — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 18:11:22 GMT

Connect360 is great for the Mac. But, it doesn't support Quicktime (yet I hope!).

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cngodles — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 14:35:12 GMT

One of the coolest parts is that you can stream internet TV right to your xbox. I was watching ESPN and NASA TV this morning.

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xprog — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 13:03:52 GMT

Transcode 360 works well for me, steam divx to your hearts content. Perfect compliment to Vista MCE.

http://runtime360.com

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meltedforest — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 10:01:23 GMT

i thought this had something to do with crackdown :o

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Seahawk NL — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 08:27:58 GMT

It looks cool at first, i am gonna try it this afternoon!! I was using the stream from Windows media connect, but this one just looks better!!

Thx Major

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pgxl — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:46:47 GMT

Or use XB Stream- www.xbstream.com, and get videos, pictures, blogs, podcasts all free - integrates well with your computer and makes no system wide changes! Sorry for the self-promotion :)