I have a crap load of movies, music and pictures on my external hardrive. I can't seem to stream anything from my pc to my 360, and i want to watch my movies on my 32"HDTV instead of my 17"monitor. Would it work if i hooked up my external hdd to my 360? Would i be able to watch all my movies and listen to all my music?
Thats a very interesting question. Unfortunately, I have no clue if that would work, but if someone here knows I'd definitely be interested in hearing too.
yes, with no problem, I just got my 320 GB Ext.HDD hooked up (to the socket in the back/ next to the internet cable). If you click my profile, and look at my banner, then you will notice that there is a black box on the left of the TV - that is the external HDD. N.B. I know that you have to format your extern. HDD in a particular way in order to get it to work, but most extern. HDD are formated in FAT 32 out-of-the-box, so you shouldn't have any problems plugging it in.
yes, with no problem, I just got my 320 GB Ext.HDD hooked up (to the socket in the back/ next to the internet cable). If you click my profile, and look at my banner, then you will notice that there is a black box on the left of the TV - that is the external HDD. N.B. I know that you have to format your extern. HDD in a particular way in order to get it to work, but most extern. HDD are formated in FAT 32 out-of-the-box, so you shouldn't have any problems plugging it in.lukasz_erecinsk
thanks alot for your help. I'm going to give it a shot today.
It kind of sucks that the 360 is advertised with a 20gb hard drive when in fact it only has about 16gb. Being a PC gamer too I knew that on every hard drive you have to subtract 14% of the actual stated storage space to get the actual ammount. I had an extra 80gb notebook hard drive and I went to my local Circuit City and bought a little cheep USB 2.0 hard drive enclosure. I save all my games to my original 360 HDD and all my beloved music, movies, and pictures on my little external drive. I have it tucked away behind my 360 and it's not even noticable.
But you guys have to be aware that you CAN NOT (!) port XBL marketplace to the Extern. HDD - but you can playback any data ( N.B. movies are only played-back in WMV and WMA formats) from the extern. drive.
Sorry for the double post - but I just remembered something - If you need a good media converter, in order to convert your i.e. AVI movies to WMA/WMV format, then I propose that you give the VisualHub program a shot .... it is a good converting tool
i thought you just had to put the movie you want to stream into a sertain fromat cuz the 360 can only read a sertain one and thats why you can't play them cuz it can't see them but im not 100% sure on this one
Yeah, should work fine, just convert your videos to WMV9, and convert your audio to either WMA or mp3. I've got 150 gigs of music that all works great, because it's all mp3.
I have a crap load of movies, music and pictures on my external hardrive. I can't seem to stream anything from my pc to my 360, and i want to watch my movies on my 32"HDTV instead of my 17"monitor. Would it work if i hooked up my external hdd to my 360? Would i be able to watch all my movies and listen to all my music?hueypnewton
There is a sata adaptor out that is supposed to make things like that work better, just make sure you can return it if it does not do what you want it to do. I saw it at best buy in the 360 department for $30.
i thought you just had to put the movie you want to stream into a sertain fromat cuz the 360 can only read a sertain one and thats why you can't play them cuz it can't see them but im not 100% sure on this onekevster29
Dude, the word is CERTAIN, and you should work on your punctuation - it is terribly difficult to understand what you are writing.
[QUOTE="kevster29"]i thought you just had to put the movie you want to stream into a sertain fromat cuz the 360 can only read a sertain one and thats why you can't play them cuz it can't see them but im not 100% sure on this onelukasz_erecinsk
Dude, the word is CERTAIN, and you should work on your punctuation - it is terribly difficult to understand what you are writing. Im pretty sure this isn't an english class
There is one limitation to connecting a external HD straight to the back of the 360 rather than your PC. When connected to the back of the 360 it will sort the music and video only by the file name. So if you got alot of music and video it might make it hard to find what you are looking for. Connecting that external HD to a PC connected on the same network as the 360 will stream the music and video to the 360 and will sort it by artist, genre, song title, or album. You will even be able to set up play lists on your PC and then stream that playlist to the 360. So you can fire up a game, hit the guide button, go down to music and select one of your custom playlists. If you have anything more than a couple hundred songs I'd use a PC and stream it to the 360.
There is one limitation to connecting a external HD straight to the back of the 360 rather than your PC. When connected to the back of the 360 it will sort the music and video only by the file name. So if you got alot of music and video it might make it hard to find what you are looking for. Connecting that external HD to a PC connected on the same network as the 360 will stream the music and video to the 360 and will sort it by artist, genre, song title, or album. You will even be able to set up play lists on your PC and then stream that playlist to the 360. So you can fire up a game, hit the guide button, go down to music and select one of your custom playlists. If you have anything more than a couple hundred songs I'd use a PC and stream it to the 360.WillT12345
I have well over 25,000 songs, and when I play them on my 360 through the Ext. HDD, they're all sorted by artist and album, and I can also use playlists I've made on my computer and saved to the hard drive. I don't know what you guys are doing differently, but the only real advantage streaming from a PC has is video organization.
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