xbox 360 video library. How to change folder

barriejohn69

Hi

I finally bought an xbox. When I go to video library it picks up my laptop but automtically goes to the videos folder on my C drive. How can I get it to point to a specific folder on an xternall hdd? Or alternatively can I transfer films from my hdd to the xbox external hdd?

Cheers

Barrie

Chimpofdoom

barriejohn69 wrote: »

Hi

I finally bought an xbox. When I go to video library it picks up my laptop but automtically goes to the videos folder on my C drive. How can I get it to point to a specific folder on an xternall hdd? Or alternatively can I transfer films from my hdd to the xbox external hdd?

Cheers

Barrie

Well you can plug the EXTERNAL hard drive into the xbox and you can't transfer films from your hard drive onto your xbox's internal hard drive.

custardy

rather than mess around with file locations
i use PS3 media server http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/
now you have far more codec support since it transcodes on the fly
you can select the specific location of the movie folders
so for me i have it showing only specific folders where movies are
no need to go clicking through levels to get to the films

obviously not for everyone but if you are playing from the network anyway its a no brainer

barriejohn69

Chimpofdoom wrote: »

Well you can plug the EXTERNAL hard drive into the xbox and you can't transfer films from your hard drive onto your xbox's internal hard drive.

The xbox won't recognise it as it isnt FAT32 format.

custardy

barriejohn69 wrote: »

The xbox won't recognise it as it isnt FAT32 format.

hook it up to the laptop and stream from it
im in the same boat as many files are too big to faff around with FAT 32 drives

barriejohn69

custardy wrote: »

rather than mess around with file locations
i use PS3 media server http://ps3mediaserver.org/forum/
now you have far more codec support since it transcodes on the fly
you can select the specific location of the movie folders
so for me i have it showing only specific folders where movies are
no need to go clicking through levels to get to the films

obviously not for everyone but if you are playing from the network anyway its a no brainer

I'll have a look at it when I get a bit of free time.

custardy

barriejohn69 wrote: »

I'll have a look at it when I get a bit of free time.

download and install(it runs in Java) and you are pretty much good to go on the default settings
if the 360 see's the laptop then it should see PS3 media server on the same section

barriejohn69

custardy wrote: »

hook it up to the laptop and stream from it
im in the same boat as many files are too big to faff around with FAT 32 drives

Thats what I'm doing but I can't get the xbox to find it. It just goes straight to the default videos folder on my C drive rather than my F drive.

barriejohn69

custardy wrote: »

download and install(it runs in Java) and you are pretty much good to go on the default settings
if the 360 see's the laptop then it should see PS3 media server on the same section

Just installed it and got it up and running in 2 mins. Thanks a lot.

custardy

barriejohn69 wrote: »

Just installed it and got it up and running in 2 mins. Thanks a lot.

good stuff
im a big fan
for a small free project its great
whats you TV/audio set up?
if you run a separate audio amp then there are tweaks you can make
same with quality depending on your laptops performance

barriejohn69

I haven't got surround sound yet but have a panasonic viera telly. It's about 3 years old now but does the job. We are moving next week so I wll be getting a new telly but will probably wait until the January sales.

Laptops an acer aspire 5920.