The Complete Dummy's Guide to Xbox 360 and Windows XP Media Center.

Windows XP Media Center is another operating system something like Windows 98 , Windows NT and etc.

In short XP Media Center is an extension of XP Professional.

Things you can do with with Xbox 360 with XP Media Center.
- stream movies from your computer to your TV (MPG/AVI/DIVX/etc)
- stream musics from your computer to your TV
- save all your DVD to your computer
- purchase movies from Internet (Broadband connection required)
- watch US news (Broadband connection required)
- the list goes on...

What do you need
- XP Media Center OS
- A computer
- Xbox 360 (link within the same network as your computer)
- TV
- Broadband connection
- 1 ADSL Modem
- 1 Broadband Router with 4 LAN port(DHCP enabled)

How to set up (my options)
- Plug your telephone line to your ADSL modem
- Using network cable plug both your ADSL modem and Router (WAN port)
- Using network cable plug both your PC and Router (LAN port)
- Using network cable plug both your Xbox 360 and Router (LAN port)
- Turn on your computer and Xbox 360
- Make sure both your PC and Xbox 360 can connect to internet
- From Xbox 360 Dashboard - Media Blade, press "Media Center"
- Follow the instructions
- Done

Wireless recommendation
- Read on.

Streaming
- Read on.

Many thanks to Stringfellow for his contribution.

This post has been edited by goodspeed: Dec 1 2006, 05:13 PM

will do.. thanks for the info guys..

interesting...

thank you very much for the info...

will give it a try with wired connection... and see how it goes from there...

by the way.. where do i get Windows Media Encoder ??? Does it comes free with Media Center ??

thanks again...

This post has been edited by goodspeed: Apr 4 2006, 02:49 PM

thanks a lot for the info... really appreciate it...

guess i will do all the setting up this weekend so i can start asking more intelligent questions...

hope others will benefit from stringfellow's infos...

cheers

media center is way cool

it's like watching Astro on Demand...

tested my mtv's MPG and some ahem's MPG ... and i was like

f*** f*** where's my remote.... hard press (volume down)

thanks Stringfellow and MK84... for all the info..

all was tested on "wired".... now researching on "wireless"....

This post has been edited by goodspeed: Apr 10 2006, 11:55 AM