So I’ve gotten my 360 set up on my home network and it plays nice with Media Player 11 to access my iTunes (MP3s only) library and photos. Of course videos are another story. After doing a little research apparently the Xbox 360 will only play WMV files using WMP11. Now this is just annoying.
Any of you uber-geeks/gamers out there done anything about this? It appears there’s a few software apps out there that you can put onto your PC to convert movies on the fly and stream them to the Xbox but that seems more than a little clumsy. There seem to be a couple apps that you can install onto your Xbox that replace the dashboard with their own that will play pretty much any file type you can imagine.
So has anyone tinkered with this stuff? Any of them worth the hassle? Anything that allows the Xbox to play all the files off my network in the least intrusive manner?