Comments on: Forget the Apple TV, use your XBox http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/05/10668/ Sun, 22 Nov 2009 06:28:02 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Joe http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/05/10668/comment-page-1/#comment-390444 Joe Tue, 05 Jun 2007 17:32:35 +0000 http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/05/10668/#comment-390444 Does anyone know if you can have these in multiple folders? Like if you have Kids videos in one folder, action in another, etc.. that way you dont need to go through the whole list of 300 videos to get to the middle. Joe Does anyone know if you can have these in multiple folders? Like if you have Kids videos in one folder, action in another, etc.. that way you dont need to go through the whole list of 300 videos to get to the middle.

Joe

]]> By: BroncoBash http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/05/10668/comment-page-1/#comment-388780 BroncoBash Tue, 15 May 2007 05:23:13 +0000 http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/05/10668/#comment-388780 great! Thanks for the help. I did see that the updated version of connect360 now lets you pick an "other" folder to share but when i select in the xbox360 console the xbox just freezes until it eventually errors out and gives the ol' unsupported format error...this is simply not true since i stream them from the server just fine with vista. Perhaps more bugs need to be worked out but its a great start to having a great media center. Thanks again great! Thanks for the help.

I did see that the updated version of connect360 now lets you pick an “other” folder to share but when i select in the xbox360 console the xbox just freezes until it eventually errors out and gives the ol’ unsupported format error…this is simply not true since i stream them from the server just fine with vista.

Perhaps more bugs need to be worked out but its a great start to having a great media center.

Thanks again

]]> By: Adam Potts http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/05/10668/comment-page-1/#comment-388754 Adam Potts Mon, 14 May 2007 20:26:35 +0000 http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/05/10668/#comment-388754 I'm not sure about your network mapping issue Bronco, but I do know a roundabout way of getting Connect360 to use whichever movie folder you like. You can use <a href="http://www.naratt.com/MakeSymlink.html" rel="nofollow">this app</a> to create what's called a symbolic link, which is basically a hardcore alias/shortcut of sorts Just make a symlink to your desired movie folder, drop the symlink in your Home folder, and rename it "Movies". Once you do that, as far as OS X is concerned, the folder on your external HD <b>is</b> the 'Movies' folder. This method is used by many (myself included) to hard-link to large-sized files located on an external drive (i.e. GarageBand loops, instruments, etc.). Just be sure to backup your original Movies folder first! :D I’m not sure about your network mapping issue Bronco, but I do know a roundabout way of getting Connect360 to use whichever movie folder you like. You can use this app to create what’s called a symbolic link, which is basically a hardcore alias/shortcut of sorts

Just make a symlink to your desired movie folder, drop the symlink in your Home folder, and rename it “Movies”. Once you do that, as far as OS X is concerned, the folder on your external HD is the ‘Movies’ folder. This method is used by many (myself included) to hard-link to large-sized files located on an external drive (i.e. GarageBand loops, instruments, etc.).

Just be sure to backup your original Movies folder first! :D

]]> By: Hareron http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/05/10668/comment-page-1/#comment-388746 Hareron Mon, 14 May 2007 19:02:39 +0000 http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/05/10668/#comment-388746 @BroncoBash Do a search on macosxhints. I know they have some hints on there on how automount network devices/shared folders. @BroncoBash

Do a search on macosxhints. I know they have some hints on there on how automount network devices/shared folders.

]]> By: BroncoBash http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/05/10668/comment-page-1/#comment-388741 BroncoBash Mon, 14 May 2007 17:54:50 +0000 http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/05/10668/#comment-388741 Glad they got this updated! I also stopped using it because of the WMV issue and the h.264 is a welcome change. However, I have dealt a lot with this over the past weekend. The last version of connect360 would only stream video content located in your "movies" folder. I own a macbook pro and do not have enough HDD space to do this on any kind of permanent basis.If I could just get that to work with an external it would be wonderful. Hooking up a formatted FAT32 external HDD to the 360 USB port is still your best bet for streaming. If you are a NAS user, installing Vista or XP media center on boot camp (VISTA will not find the extender in parallels! in my experience) and then mapping the network drives will work great. Media Center will watch the folders for changes and keep it up for streaming. OSX would gladly be used if mapping network drives could happen upon log in rather than having to manually do so every time i wish to connect. Which brings me to my question.. does anyone know of a way to have OSX automatically map and log into my NAS upon log in rather than me having to reconnect to each share over and over? Glad they got this updated!

I also stopped using it because of the WMV issue and the h.264 is a welcome change.

However, I have dealt a lot with this over the past weekend. The last version of connect360 would only stream video content located in your “movies” folder. I own a macbook pro and do not have enough HDD space to do this on any kind of permanent basis.If I could just get that to work with an external it would be wonderful.

Hooking up a formatted FAT32 external HDD to the 360 USB port is still your best bet for streaming. If you are a NAS user, installing Vista or XP media center on boot camp (VISTA will not find the extender in parallels! in my experience) and then mapping the network drives will work great. Media Center will watch the folders for changes and keep it up for streaming. OSX would gladly be used if mapping network drives could happen upon log in rather than having to manually do so every time i wish to connect.

Which brings me to my question.. does anyone know of a way to have OSX automatically map and log into my NAS upon log in rather than me having to reconnect to each share over and over?

]]> By: PVLIII http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/05/10668/comment-page-1/#comment-388735 PVLIII Mon, 14 May 2007 16:32:19 +0000 http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/05/10668/#comment-388735 Is there something equivalent for Windows? Is there something equivalent for Windows?

]]> By: Adam Potts http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/05/10668/comment-page-1/#comment-388734 Adam Potts Mon, 14 May 2007 16:24:06 +0000 http://uneasysilence.com/archive/2007/05/10668/#comment-388734 I used this for a while but stopped eventually because it only supported WMV video at the time...good to see they got MP4 working! :) I used this for a while but stopped eventually because it only supported WMV video at the time…good to see they got MP4 working! :)

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