First of all, Happy ! I trust the holiday season was fun for everyone. We wanted to share his experiences to benefit the community. To make this change:. At this point, your XBox extender should be able to access the media center, and play content from the Media Center PC. This work around was also discussed on The Green Button. As a result, the XBox will fail to access content stored on the server.
While you could create these accounts in the domain, there is no hope to make the passwords match, because the MCX password is a randomly generated long password known only to the XBox and and the Media Center.
Instead, you have to create a logon script for these MCX accounts to map drives to the SBS server using a domain user account which has access to the content you want to access from the XBox. For more detailed steps, see my previous post on this issue. Any idea why this would be occurring? Then you can get to it from the Quick Launch menu. I downloaded it last night, but didn't have time to look at it yet.
Hey Scott, How did you get your avatar out of the Xbox? Thanks, Nick. Hey Scott, Is it easy to stream music from other services like Pandora or Launch, or would you need to use Zune?
David Fauber. The other option is PS It plays Blueray disc and does pretty much the same tricks as xbox. Have you had any red ring experiences with your s?
Everyone I know who has bought one has had at least one red ring or multiples. I'm the only one who hasn't, but I hardly use it at this point. I use my PS3 for video streaming from my computer. Partly I do this because I'm afraid the is going to blow up at some point and partly because, as others have noted, the is loud. Way too noisy to be a real media center.
The PS3 is silent, hence a real media center. Forget games, with Call of Duty, Gears of War 2 and Tomb Raider out Friday i'm considering forgettin work to squeeze in the hours to play these ;. Lee Timmins. Wow, there's lots of whining about the 's fan noise.
Admittedly, it is a little loud, particularly when the drive spins up, but you're just nitpicking if you find it unacceptable as a media player because of this. Turn up your sound system.
Eventually by googling the status codes I was able to figure out that it somehow "lost" the media update codec that it downloaded LAST year. When I tried to re-download it, it failed failed failed. Ultimately, the info at the very bottom of the xbox video playback FAQ was an entry about a failed download, and your Microsoft Points had already been deducted and won't be deducted again said that the download was corrupt and the work-around was to create another, temporary Xbox-Live Silver account and download it to there.
Completely bass-ackwards, but I did it. I created a new temporary profile, joined it to xbox live, tried to play the video, it said that a required media update was required, and when I went to download it, it actually worked this time.
The video played. I signed out and signed back in with my usual Xbox Live account and video worked again. I don't have the links here with me at work, but I'll probably post them when I get home tonight. I have an Elite though, so maybe it's quieter. I don't even notice the any more. I've been eagerly waiting for the Netflix integration because I'm tired of streaming it through my laptop via MediaCenter.
I have to say I was pretty disappointed to find out yesterday that Sony revoked the rights for all the Columbia titles from Netflix for streaming to Xbox. When you view your Instant queue, they have a note next to them "Not available for Xbox.
Give me a break! Wade C. Am I the only one that has a hard time imagining seeing Scott bob his head to some Tupac? Kevin Babcock. Mark - My XviD playback has been weird too.
It makes me actually log in to Live before it will work. Not a big deal, but minorly disconcerting. I've noticed lots of weirdness related to downloadable stuff. I checked Microsoft Connect, and it doesn't look like there's a bug entry system for Xbox stuff, so I'm not sure how to go about reporting this. I don't want to call the number and try to explain this to a call center drone.
If only there were someone who might be able to get us in touch with somebody who'd like to hear about this stuff Somebody who works for Microsoft, maybe? Although I can't think possibly think of anyone like that Noise levels vary with the generation--is yours a fairly new model?
Here's another fairly objective comparison, just to bolster my claim that I'm not nitpicking. I was just in our IT guy's office and he had a single Dell 2U rackmount server sitting on his desk, and at steady state its fans were similar in volume to my 's at full bore.
You need an Gold membership to stream netflix, in addition to the Netflix membership. That means you have to pay twice the amount for the same thing. I was looking forward to this feature as well, but the gold membership doesn't provide me with anything else that I want.
But I don't want to cash out more money for something I can get for free by hooking up my laptop to the TV and which allows you to stream even more movies. I think the new NXE has become too commercial. There are way too many panes that takes you to places that costs things, and too few places that is of real value to you. It said it needed to download an update that always failed. Ultimately I had to log on at xbox.
Oh yeah and the media player is still horrible. I had hoped it would have been reworked, but if you have many titles on there, it's a pain to enqueue, find, browse and play your music. Follow the on-screen instructions until you get to the media center key. It should look something like this:. Then click on Tasks and Add Extender. At this point, unless you have some crazy firewall setup, your PC should be connected to your Xbox and ready to stream music, videos and pictures! Any trouble connecting your Xbox to your PC?
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