Pain in the ass

wrightyi23 · 01-18-2006, 05:51 PM

Microsoft do my head in sometimes.

Why the hell cant you rip DVDs to your hard drive on a media center PC and watch them on the xbox?

Grrrrr there must be a way!!!

Cappy · 01-18-2006, 07:53 PM

Their is usually a code on DVD's so that you can't burn them....

Calavera · 01-18-2006, 11:20 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by wrightyi23

Microsoft do my head in sometimes.

Why the hell cant you rip DVDs to your hard drive on a media center PC and watch them on the xbox?

Grrrrr there must be a way!!!

Never played with media center pc but I assume is just like a WinXP machine, can you use dvdshring to rip it? Getting the 360 to play it is another thing, maybe when the mod chips come out.

HORST_360 · 01-18-2006, 11:27 PM

can't you just convert them with DVDtoAVI and then rip the .avi to the 360? sorry but i never delt with a media center pc...

horst

wrightyi23 · 01-19-2006, 05:31 AM

Im a bit of a quality freak and AVI, WMV etc are not DVD quality. In this day and age you should be able to rip a dvd to the hard disk and stream it to the 360.

It works fine through the media center PC but when played on the 360 Media Extender it says ' remote desktop cannot play this file or something or other'

Its obviously some sort of Microsoft lock down, but i dont see the difference between ripping an album and playing it thru the 360 and riping a dvd.

Microsoft need to pull their fingers out before I get a mac!!!!

andymac746 · 01-19-2006, 07:26 AM

You would think they would of allowed it seeing as the 360 plays dvds anyway. Should of had xvid/divx support too.