So I bought a 360

shot2bits · Post by **shot2bits** » May 21st, 2007, 1:49

i just wanted to know if it would be worth getting my xbox chipped or just waiting till i get a 360

Woo Elephant Yeah · Post by **Woo Elephant Yeah** » May 21st, 2007, 7:27

Xbox games are extremely easy to sweep, and there are tonnes of them, so I'd suggest chipping, and installing a hard drive, and turn it into a "media centre" as well.

Pretty sure Bobbins is a fountain of knowledge with the chipped Xbox software, along with a few others here.

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » May 21st, 2007, 8:45

Woo Elephant Yeah wrote:Pretty sure Bobbins is a fountain of knowledge with the chipped Xbox software, along with a few others here.

I do have one but Prof is the man, I'm sure he posted a good guide on this when 5punk was a wee baby.

I'll have a search...

Edit:
http://www.5punk.co.uk/phpbb/viewtopic. ... 07&start=0

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » May 21st, 2007, 10:03

Interesting. Now I'm getting a 360 I could just chip up my old Xbox as a media centre instead. Can it handle HD resolution videos?

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » May 21st, 2007, 10:11

Apparently not, but you'd be best checking for yourself. (as I cba to turn my xbox on)

mrbobbins · Post by **mrbobbins** » May 21st, 2007, 10:17

spoodie wrote:Can it handle HD resolution videos?

I watch the ~700mb versions of TV shows and they look great, as for proper HD, dunno, but as you are restricted to normal res TV outputs I don't see the point

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » May 21st, 2007, 10:25

mrbobbins wrote:I watch the ~700mb versions of TV shows and they look great, as for proper HD, dunno, but as you are restricted to normal res TV outputs I don't see the point

That'll do me, thanks. It's certainly more convenient than hooking up my work laptop to the TV or trying to get things to run on my P.O.S. KiSS Divx player.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » May 22nd, 2007, 9:38

WHIN!

First gaming session was 2 hours of Gear of War coop with a mate over the internet. Great game, comparable to the experience of first playing Halo back in the day. Very nice looking, plays well and different enough from standard shooters to make it a very good game. So far I'm very happy with my purchase.

cheeseandham · Post by **cheeseandham** » May 22nd, 2007, 21:30

I did enjoy GoW co-op mode , lots of (bloody) fun for all the family

shot2bits · Post by **shot2bits** » June 3rd, 2007, 23:25

i got my 360 aswell and i have 2 months of xbox live gold untill i have to start playing, my tag is shott2bitts i think, add it and find out, ive got crackdown gears of war and PGS, plus the arcade games

if anyone else has them gimme a shout and ill give em a go at co-op

anyone got any recommendations for games?

Post by **Joose** » June 3rd, 2007, 23:32

So have we established whether or not you can use a 360 to stream swept up videos yet? Im kinda hoping you can, as its one of the main reasons im getting increasingly tempted to get one.

shot2bits · Post by **shot2bits** » June 3rd, 2007, 23:53

ty has briefly tried to get this working on my 360 but no luck so far

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 4th, 2007, 9:55

Joose wrote:So have we established whether or not you can use a 360 to stream swept up videos yet? Im kinda hoping you can, as its one of the main reasons im getting increasingly tempted to get one.

Unfortunately the required WMP 11 wants to run Genuine Advantage to check you have a valid Windows installation before installing itself, that's as far as I got. Maybe I could try it from my work laptop.

Post by **Joose** » June 4th, 2007, 16:44

So wait, if you have WMP11 working ok you can stream stuff? Because i have that. Its floored windows, but the verificationising isnt a problem.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 6th, 2007, 10:21

Joose wrote:So wait, if you have WMP11 working ok you can stream stuff? Because i have that. Its floored windows, but the verificationising isnt a problem.

I'm trying to find out elsewhere, I will let you know for certain, hopefully.

spoodie · Post by **spoodie** » June 6th, 2007, 20:48

I got video streaming working but it's far from ideal.

This software allows you to serve files over the network without using official MS software, works well enough: http://www.orb.com/

But getting files into the correct format and screen size is the tricky part, much like with the PSP. I tried this: http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/Xbox360/
But it's basic and riddled with adverts. You need a decent converter which allows you to manage the screen aspect properly or get hold of files which are already prepared for the 360.

I haven't given up though, more later perhaps.

Post by **Dr. kitteny berk** » June 6th, 2007, 21:11

Depending what format you need to transcode into, you might wanna look at vdub or vdubmod, it has a built in resize function (Video>Filters>Resize)

Doesn't support some encoders, but does work with most.

TheJockGit · Post by **TheJockGit** » June 6th, 2007, 22:53

I have had similar problems.. especially with DIVX movies.. have to convert to wmv or avi for it to work and even then its hit or miss.

If you do find something please let us know, as it took ages for me convert one movie to find it didn't work

Post by **FatherJack** » June 7th, 2007, 13:20

Okay, time to get one. Obviously the hard disky version, don't want bundled games I won't play - games that I'd get right off probably be Forza (duh), Gears, Pinata and probably some other driving games. I have a normal telly for now, although I don't know how hard connecting it to a montor would be.

So, anyone seen any good deals recently?

eion · Post by **eion** » June 7th, 2007, 13:38

FatherJack wrote:I have a normal telly for now, although I don't know how hard connecting it to a montor would be.

If you get the Elite, you can presumably plug it into a monitor over DVI using an HDMI-to-DVI converter (but don't quote me on that - or do, see if I care). Otherwise, there's a VGA/d-sub cable you can get for it that'll do the job in an analogue way.