LR,
Yeah I did the usb update thing to 12625..... but whenever I go to play any video file other than wmv it tells me that I need to d/l install "media update", reading various xb forums indicated that as you suggest xb360 is crap as a media player (unless its re-encoded to xbox360 specs - try doing that with XYZ TB lol...), and that the only way is to log into XBL and install it, for obvious reasons, I do not wish to do this
to be honest I am not sure why I bother with it, from a practical POV, the difference for me will be either playing media on a 17" lcd (laptop that plays from the network already) or a 22" lcd (that the XB360 is connected too), almost hardly worth the effort really. lol.....
although might be cool to play it [media from xbox360) on the plasmas at some stage (but I think that wd tv (or eqiv) would be better suited more useable/portable etc)
I guess like others I should just flash back to original, install the MS media update, then fingers crossed flash with 1.9 (being new to XB360) I am dubious as for the amount of time I would watch media vs play games is so disproportional that its too risky.
plus I'd like to see this work on my linux machine. (but do not really want to spent THAT many hours doing it - for the above reason)
I guess I could just as easily plug the xbox1 in and be done with it as another option.
edit: I am going to give it a go, but reading around seems even with transcoding, the quality is fairly average on the 360.... might spent some time just checking it out. then give up!!
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