Movies on 360

**DejaVu** · 2nd January 2015

Originally Posted by kroner

My plex runs fine on my kids 360 with no pass. If you got in to system video apps it picks up the plex server from there.

Actually. If that works, that is particularly clever. DNLA. Nice! Will it Transcode though? Guessing it does.

XBox 360 for movies has always been diabolical. Micoroshit didn't want users to use it as a Media Centre, hence why XBMC never made it to it. It was too hard to port.
Invest a tenner in a NowTV. Use Rarflix. Serve/transcode movies from a Plex Media Server (that doesn't need a Plex Pass).

**ivrytwr3** · 2nd January 2015

OK, got Plex working and it's very good! But like i say i don't want him using all my bandwidth!

I have plugged in the hdd and the 360 doesn't even see it

Any ideas?

**DejaVu** · 2nd January 2015

Bandwidth will only matter be over T'internet.
LAN connection would barely touch it. Transcoding can be limited too in Plex.

Smaller file uploaded, less bandwidth if in different location.

Plex FTW!

**ivrytwr3** · 2nd January 2015

OK, i understand what you are saying - what about costs? Is it cheaper to plug in a hdd or stream? (or not much in it?)

**DejaVu** · 2nd January 2015

Cost? Cheaper? Are you in a different location than your lad?
Worried about the uploading of a transcoded movie? Are you on a limited Broadband plan?

Not sure I understand.

Mine is all over LAN for my house. Plus, I streams to every player I share with... trust me, there is a few (about 50!)
I'm with BT Infinity and right this moment I am streaming 9 different streams to various locations in the UK.
My broadband speedtest during this time hardly changes, but my CPU hurts due to changing a 5GB file to around 1Gb to send over Internet.

Streaming to 9 people (mainly on NowTV's) uses approximately 5MB upload speed. I'm currently at 12Mb when I usually get 18Mb (according to speedtest).

**ivrytwr3** · 4th January 2015

Well it worked - sort of!

I converted the NTFS to HFS+ and when i plugged the hdd into the 360 i could now see the hdd and navigate around it.

However, only certain movie formats were available (avi etc) no mkv

I think my best bet and for ease it to continue to use Plex.

Ta all!

**Zoots** · 4th January 2015

I'd watched this thread with interest, glad you got it sorted.

Deja, would you know - I don't have a NowTV box, I have a Roku. But I pay a guy to access his Plex server and I know he hacks & sells the boxes with a sub (and he's a busy lad...). I just can't get my head around how he does it? He must be streaming to hundreds. I know the storage and hardware side of it all is reasonably simple but how would someone be able to provide so many flawless streams on his bandwidth? Obviously he doesn't answer too many questions himself!

**akimba** · 5th January 2015

Originally Posted by ivrytwr3

Well it worked - sort of!

I converted the NTFS to HFS+ and when i plugged the hdd into the 360 i could now see the hdd and navigate around it.

However, only certain movie formats were available (avi etc) no mkv

I think my best bet and for ease it to continue to use Plex.

Ta all!

you could spend hours converting your mkv's to avis (plenty of free tools out there) and put on your external HDD, the 360 could transcode the MKV's but Microsoft have not supported that type in the 360.

So if you don't want to transcode them all yourself then you need a streamer.

most people go for Plex but I use Mezzmo, the good thing about mezzmo is you can whitelist devices to any level of you media you want so can limit your tv/xbox to daddies folder ;-)

**DejaVu** · 12th January 2015

Originally Posted by Zoots

I'd watched this thread with interest, glad you got it sorted.

Deja, would you know - I don't have a NowTV box, I have a Roku. But I pay a guy to access his Plex server and I know he hacks & sells the boxes with a sub (and he's a busy lad...). I just can't get my head around how he does it? He must be streaming to hundreds. I know the storage and hardware side of it all is reasonably simple but how would someone be able to provide so many flawless streams on his bandwidth? Obviously he doesn't answer too many questions himself!

I would imagine the fella has a OVH server running as a Seedbox with a super fast upload speed. Or similar for less in Europe somewhere - I'm told Swedish upload speeds are incredible.
Given enough cash (subs per month) and enough interest, I'm pretty sure I can set something similar up without any real problems.
Just need enough storage, a half decent CPU and a good upload speed.

https://www.ovh.co.uk/dedicated_servers/storage/

Most of his content is going to just be stereo too.
None will be 5.1 as that would throttle the CPU and jeopardise the HDD space. Streaming it kills the CPU & upload speed. A small MP4 with MP3 audio on a 100MBit pipe would hardly touch it.

Running Sonar/CouchPotato/uTorrent and SabNZBd remotely is not particularly hard. Just need to check it once a day to make sure its doing what its supposed to be doing.

**Zoots** · 12th January 2015

Nice one. So he downloads the content direct to his servers with software installed on them and no one asks any questions. The mind boggles. He reckons he has 1K+ customers. Crazy..