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Xbox 360 DivX, XviD Playback Guide |
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This guide shows you how to stream DivX and XviD movies (as well as share photos and audio files) to your Xbox 360 using TVersity or Windows Media Player |
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DVDGuy |
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TVersity |
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Setting Up Media Sharing using TVersity - Part 1
Step 1: Installation
Install Windows Media Player. Only version 9 or better is required, but version 11 is required for transcoding (not needed anymore for this guide).
Download and install TVersity. When you get to the last step of the installation, there is an option to "Install Codecs", which will install some video and audio codecs that are needed by TVersity. However, if you already have a codec pack like K-Lite Codec Pack (highly recommended) installed, then you probably don't need to enable this option at all (and enabling it might cause further problems - installing codecs over your existing setup might cause everything to fail). If you do run into codec related problems, then you can re-install with the "Install Codecs" option enabled, or install the K-Lite Codec Pack which is my preferred method.
Otherwise, installation is pretty straight forward, but if at the end you get an error message about TVersity not being able to start, ignore it. Reboot your system when the installation is completed. Also be sure to check the TVersity system requirements page to ensure you have met all the requirements (Flash 7 especially).
Step 2: TVersity Setup
TVersity by default uses the port 41952 (this can be changed later on), and you will need to open up your personal firewall to allow this port to be used by TVersity. The exact procedure on how to do this depends on the brand of firewall you use, but if you use Windows Firewall, here are the instructions:
- Click on the "Start" button -> Control Panel -> Windows Firewall
- Go to the "Exceptions" section of the Windows Firewall configuration tool to see the exception list
- Click on "Add Program" and use the "Browse" button to locate the TVersity executable file (default location is: C:\Program Files\TVersity\Media Server\TVersity.exe) - you can also use the "Change Scope" button to limit the scope of the exception (eg. to block out access from outside your own network). Click OK until you're back to the exception list.
- Click on "Add Port" and add 41952 (TCP) to be opened, again you can use the "Change Scope" function to limit access. Press "OK" to save the exception and close Windows Firewall.
If the TVersity tray icon is not shown, go to your Start Menu and start TVersity. Go to the "Settings" section and ignore any warnings you might get about TVersity not being started.
In the "General" settings section, you can set the following options:
- Media Playback Device: Set this to "Xbox 360".
- Media Sharing Service: This is where you start, stop or restart the sharing service - if it is not started yet, you can click on the "Start Sharing" button to start it. The "Automatically start sharing ..." option when checked will automatically start the service whenever you start the computer.
- Temporary Media Files: This specify the amount of disk space to use for caching/buffering purposes - the default 8192 MB (8 GB) setting should be more than enough.
- Home Network: You can specify the port that TVersity will use (if you change the port settings, don't forget to change your firewall settings to match it), and also specify the IP address you wish to share content with (or leave it blank to allow sharing from all devices on the network).
- HTTP Proxy and Maximum Timeshift are not important, so leave the default settings there.
Press the "Save" button to save the settings.
Go to the "Transcoder" settings section, you can set the following options (most of these options are not relevant since we are not going to use transcoding to DivX and XviD files):
- When to transcode? Set this to "Only when needed". The most recent version of TVersity will no longer transcode DivX/XviD files to the Xbox 360, since it is now natively transcoded. If you are using an older version for whatever reason, to prevent transcoding, you can temporarily set this option to "Never". You don't need to worry about the "Decrease the bitrate ..." option since this only matters when transcoding is needed, but this option will decrease the bitrate of the trancoded video so that it is below the maximum bandwidth of your network (useful if you are using a wireless network).
- Maximum Video and Image Resolution: Again, this option is not needed for DivX/XviD playback since transcoding is not needed. These settings allow you to specify the maximum resolution video that TVersity will transcode to (if your video has a higher resolution, it will be converted to this maximum resolution - if your video has a lower resolution, the lower resolution will be used). Setting these settings to the resolution of your TV/display panel is recommended, unless you run into performance problems, in which case you can use half the resolution of your TV/panel (eg. 640x480) for lower quality video. Note that this only affects transcoded video - natively supported video (eg. WMV by the Xbox 360) won't be affected.
- Windows Media Encoder: Again, this option is not needed for DivX/XviD playback. Check the box to use DirectShow for encoding to WMV (which is the format that is accepted by the Xbox 360), and probably leave the default selection of WMV 8 as the version of WMV to use.
- Optimization: Set this to "Quality", unless you have a slow computer.
- Connection Speed and Quality: Change this to match the speed of your network. Increasing this above the speed of your actual network won't help, and will only make playback buffer all the time.
- Compression: Set this to "Minimum" for maximum quality and better performance (but might overwhelm your network connection if it is not fast enough - a wired connection should be fast enough for most video, even HD video).
- Decoding Speed: Leave this option checked.
Press the "Save" button to save the settings.
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