Streaming DVDs with Windows Media Center and XBOX 360?

written by Ryan Rinaldi on Thursday, November 06 2008

One of things I've been trying to put together in my spare time is a home media center.  I got an XBOX 360 and using that as my Media Center Extender my goal is to stream backups of my DVDs that I ripped to my PC that is running Windows Media Center.  Unfortunately I haven't been able to come up with a solution that I find acceptable.  I attempted to use Transcode360 to stream VIDEO_TS but it doesn't appear to even see the files on my machine.  I then converted my VIDEO_TS files to WMV and while I can stream that, losing FF/RW is unacceptable. (Side note: Maybe FF/RW works with WMV but trying to use the XBOX controller as a remote is painful.  I should probably pickup a real remote for it.  That will go on my list of things to buy.) 

 

Does anybody out there have any suggestions as to what I can do to realize my dream of a DVD jukebox?  I haven't attempted straight-up MPEG-2 yet, but that is my next step.  Any help would be appreciated!

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