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13th February 2009, 13:34
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Xbox Windows Extender?
Right well been messing about with this and trying to get my movies and albums from my laptop to play through the xbox.
Trouble is they are all AVI and the xbox wont play these anyone know what formats are supported and where I can get a free converter from?
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13th February 2009, 13:35
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Right well been messing about with this and trying to get my movies and albums from my laptop to play through the xbox.
Trouble is they are all AVI and the xbox wont play these anyone know what formats are supported and where I can get a free converter from?
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Bit weird, I've got loads of films/ videos in AVI and play through an external HDD on xbox, they play fine?
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13th February 2009, 13:40
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Is the external HD plugged into the xbox?
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13th February 2009, 13:44
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Is the external HD plugged into the xbox?
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Ye, guess it must make a difference playing over the explorer thing then, guess it may only play WMV and MPG as they are windows recognized formats?
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13th February 2009, 15:22
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div x supports avi files
try that
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13th February 2009, 15:37
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How do I put that on the xbox?
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13th February 2009, 16:03
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I stream content to my 360 from my server and most films are in .avi format. It should have the codecs on it already 
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13th February 2009, 16:09
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Mine doesnt seem to?
When I click on an avi it just says codec not supported?
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13th February 2009, 16:46
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I stream from PC -> Xbox via Tversity ftw 
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13th February 2009, 16:50
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Any more help?
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13th February 2009, 17:15
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13th February 2009, 18:06
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download Zune i think it is they adivise your for it it might be bs i duno lol
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13th February 2009, 19:01
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Basically I have lots of films saved onto my laptop (I have lost the discs ) and want to play them through my big tv lol
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13th February 2009, 19:09
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avi is a shell, it depends what they're encoded with.
How are you trying to play them exactly?
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13th February 2009, 19:27
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Putting them from the laptop and using the media centre on the Xbox to play them through the tv
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13th February 2009, 19:29
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Quote:
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Basically I have lots of films saved onto my laptop (I have lost the discs ) and want to play them through my big tv lol |
3rd time lucky.
TVERSITY.
Pahaha 
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13th February 2009, 19:40
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or you could set up a network mate.
thats how i play mine.
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13th February 2009, 19:43
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if u got ur xbox online in the game add on bits theres actually an update on there u can download to play avi files
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13th February 2009, 21:33
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Quote:
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Putting them from the laptop and using the media centre on the Xbox to play them through the tv
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Do you have media centre on your laptop, if not it wont work? Get twonkymedia server and install it on your laptop ( XP or VISTA) as this will turn your PC into a media server.
Once you've installed it and setup which files you want it to access, go to your xbox and it should show as a media server.
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