I totally concur with Rob... do NOT bother trying to use your XBOX360 as a media player...it really is not worth the hassle.
I wish they would let the XBOX have a BluRay drive. then again, BluRay players are coming down in price all the time. Macro had a deal the other month for a player for 50GBP! I want a Revo! Jon Reynolds On Wed, Dec 09, 2009 at 10:22:11AM +0000, Rob Beard wrote: > On 09/12/2009 09:54, javadayaz wrote: > > Right now im torn between either the machine that joseph recommended > > or an xbox360 to stream movies over from a ubuntu pc! > > I'd go for the Aspire Revo as Joseph (and Alan) suggested. I have an > XBOX 360 Elite and find it is both noisy and the streaming of movies is > well how can I put it, not that great. It'll play WMV video file but > anything else has to be transcoded and then you loose the option for 5.1 > audio. I now very rarely watch video on the XBOX 360 nowadays, I use a > PC instead. > > I certainly couldn't recommend an XBOX 360 for video playback, although > it's great for games. > > Rob > > > -- > ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk > https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/ -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/
