Windows 7 Streams Media To the Xbox 360 and PS3 Seamlessly


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One of the coolest new features of Windows 7 is the highly revamped method of media playback, and a new version of Windows Media Player. WMP12 will include support for many more codecs right ?out of the box? which means you no longer have to mess around with community codec packs. As you know, these can be a headache to manage. Now with Windows 7 and WMP12, you can easily play an XviD AVI file immediately. Want to play an MP4 video file? Yup, that too. Even Apple?s MOV files will work right away, without having to install the buggy, bloated, poorly designed Quicktime player.

http://www.hardcoreware.net/windows-7-stre...ps3-seamlessly/

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Erm, Xvid / DivX playback has been possible on both consoles for a while now. It's possible under XP, Vista and Windows 7. It has nothing to do with the codecs in the operating system but which codecs are supported by the console. There's also plenty of software besides WMP that does the job and does it a whole lot better ( PS3 Media Server for an example, works on both consoles as well ).

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The article is talking about streaming Xvid / DivX movies to XBOX.

I know it is not possible on windows XP unless you install TVersity Media Server.

It now work in Windows 7 without installing 3rd party software

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As long as you had the Divx codecs, WMP11 would stream it to the Xbox. Where's the news here? In fact, if you got a codec to play anything on WMP11, it would play on the Xbox.

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The article is talking about streaming Xvid / DivX movies to XBOX.

I know it is not possible on windows XP unless you install TVersity Media Server.

It now work in Windows 7 without installing 3rd party software

No, you don't. Media Player does it just fine in XP.

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I'm kind of happysad about the MOV support. I'm happy that WMP can play it because I stay clear of Quicktime and I'm sad because I'd really like to see it die as a format. I know there are alternatives to Quicktime but I don't really want to load extra software just to support a worthless format.

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As long as you had the Divx codecs, WMP11 would stream it to the Xbox. Where's the news here? In fact, if you got a codec to play anything on WMP11, it would play on the Xbox.

XVID supported?

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if only the media center was little better with the Xbox 360. I find playing videos with it on the xbox 360 to be a pain. FF and rewind takes me to the end of the movie in a matter of seconds if I hold it to long. I have to say playing video from the Xbox 360 dash is a lot better than the media center extender. I don't understand why they never fixed it.

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XVID supported?

Yes. Supported using WMC or WMP11 to stream since one of the 360 updates.

Windows 7 Media Center supports these formats when used with an extender like the 360 now too, unlike Vista or XP MCE.

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Yes. Supported using WMC or WMP11 to stream since one of the 360 updates.

Windows 7 Media Center supports these formats when used with an extender like the 360 now too, unlike Vista or XP MCE.

Now that's something new. Since the codecs are built into the OS now Media Center picks them up too and can play the files through the MC extender.

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