Media Center & PS3

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Rio Rebel

Originally posted by: Trader05
I use WMP11 without a problem. Streams great wirelessly, plays all my divx and xvid videos. Thats using XP Pro also.

WMP11 works just fine if you don't need to play .aac files, and you don't care about transcoding.

if one uses k-lite codec pack (or manually modify the registry) to add the ability for WMP to include those extra file types in its library, then it should stream them.

 

[Rio Rebel]

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: Rio Rebel

Originally posted by: Trader05
I use WMP11 without a problem. Streams great wirelessly, plays all my divx and xvid videos. Thats using XP Pro also.

WMP11 works just fine if you don't need to play .aac files, and you don't care about transcoding.

if one uses k-lite codec pack (or manually modify the registry) to add the ability for WMP to include those extra file types in its library, then it should stream them.

But even then, will the PS3 play them? I was under the impression that aac files must be transcoded to play to a PS3.

 

[Gooberlx2]

Originally posted by: Rio Rebel

Originally posted by: Gooberlx2

Originally posted by: Rio Rebel

Originally posted by: Trader05
I use WMP11 without a problem. Streams great wirelessly, plays all my divx and xvid videos. Thats using XP Pro also.

WMP11 works just fine if you don't need to play .aac files, and you don't care about transcoding.

if one uses k-lite codec pack (or manually modify the registry) to add the ability for WMP to include those extra file types in its library, then it should stream them.

But even then, will the PS3 play them? I was under the impression that aac files must be transcoded to play to a PS3.

Oh...I have no idea. You'd think if the PS3 can see them it can play them (provided they're encoded using the proper profile/parameters in the first place).

On my 360 my mp4s and m4vs wouldn't show until I modified the registry to add them to the media library. After that it worked fine. I would hope it's not all that different with the PS3.

 

[LikeLinus]

WMP11 + FFDSHOW = play just about anything on the Xbox 360. Same with the PS3. Media Center sucks because it's unable to play xvid or divx by itself! It's insane that they haven't allowed it to use the codecs, but WMP can.