I want to use my Xbox 360 as a media player

Juxxize

I was going to buy a USB/ memory card media player because I have loads of hours films and TV on my PC but I decided why spend the money when I have a xbox 360 I can use that . To watch the movies etc on the xbox I intend to transfer them onto my san disk official xbox flash drive 16GB by plugging that into my PC putting the movies on it then plugging the flash drive into my xbox and play the movies from the flash drive on my xbox , it should be all very straight forward .
My issue is that although I know the flash drive has a ton of space on it( when it's plugged into my xbox it shows as having around 14GB free memory on it) but when I plug it into my PC to transfer my movies onto it ( the movies are already in the correct format ) the flash drives shows as full ( only about 200kb free on it) .
Has anyone else had this issue ?? I have no idea why this is happening ? it makes no sense to me because the flash drive seems to be working fine because it has a little bit saved game data on that functions as it should ( loads /saves etc) I just don't understand when it is plugged into the / my PC it says it is nearly completely full .
If anyone has any advice that would be sooooo great , cheers

peachyprice

I'm no expert, so this may be completely wrong so feel free to laugh and point. It sounds like the flash drive has 2 partitions, one formatted for xbox that your pc can't see, the smaller once your pc can see.

Juxxize

i wouldn't point and laugh because i'm happy you posted a reply @peachyprice
i think i may have the answer (someone on another forum told me )so i'll post for other people in case anyone else had had this issue.

'It's because it's an Xbox Memory Device so acts like a Xbox HDD so you cannot transfer files to it. If you have a large enough HDD in your 360 you can transfer your files from your San Disk to your Xbox 360 and then format it with Fat 32 which will delete everything. Then you can put your files on it, but you will no longer be able to use it as a memory card. I just use the cloud service when traveling.'

neilwoods

Could stream directly from your PC or even from external hard drive attached to PC.

Use a media server program (i use TVersity). Able to stream from PC, external drive. And the program will decode formats not supported by Xbox as it is playing.

zappahey

Chances are that your xbox can't play the files anyway as it supports very few file formats.

Neilwoods has the answer, though, suggesting TVersity or Serviio

bertie1989

check out ps3 media server( i know you said xbox) It converts files on the fly. I use it its great once set up

Juxxize

That TVersity looks good i'm going to give that a go , is it a free download ? I had converted the files to xbox format so they should have played but i think xbox / microsoft make it had for people to play thier own movies on the xbox so you will buy them from zune but what they fail to understand is why would a user pay again for a film they already own?? microsoft want the xbox to be the one stop shop for home entertainment they should make it easier to play movies on.
thanks for your replys everyone, :money:

neilwoods

Juxxize wrote: »

That TVersity looks good i'm going to give that a go , is it a free download ? I had converted the files to xbox format so they should have played but i think xbox / microsoft make it had for people to play thier own movies on the xbox so you will buy them from zune but what they fail to understand is why would a user pay again for a film they already own?? microsoft want the xbox to be the one stop shop for home entertainment they should make it easier to play movies on.
thanks for your replys everyone, :money:

totally FREE

Juxxize

when i looked at tversity the site says they are now charging for basic which had been free but it's cool but i set up the playstation3 media server mentioned by bertie1989 it took me like 10minates from downloading it to having a movie playing on my xbox ( and the movie was in flv too) so i'm very happy . thanks again peeps. hopefully this thread will help out some other people too who didn't know you could do this with an xbox360 it saves buying a media player it just means i need my PC running when watching movies .

custardy

Juxxize wrote: »

when i looked at tversity the site says they are now charging for basic which had been free but it's cool but i set up the playstation3 media server mentioned by bertie1989 it took me like 10minates from downloading it to having a movie playing on my xbox ( and the movie was in flv too) so i'm very happy . thanks again peeps. hopefully this thread will help out some other people too who didn't know you could do this with an xbox360 it saves buying a media player it just means i need my PC running when watching movies .

I used PS3 media player and its very good
however I switched to Serviio
http://www.serviio.org/
which I prefer
The pro edition allows streaming to your phone/tablet,though I dont use pro

Coveredinbees!!!!

I use a flash drive to play stuff on my xbox360. I have never had a problem with it not playing anything except MKV. I used to have a IOmega network drive but it died so I would recommend getting one of them.