November 2007 Archives
I am now listed on Technorati.
Trying to start to get this thingy out into the public eye, but have no idea how to promote it. Figure I need a few more posts before I do that, but I just started yesterday, so give me a break.
So how do you recommend getting and maintaining visitors?
Trying to start to get this thingy out into the public eye, but have no idea how to promote it. Figure I need a few more posts before I do that, but I just started yesterday, so give me a break.
So how do you recommend getting and maintaining visitors?
So I download a movie (of unknown origin) to my computer and wanted to watch it on my big screen TV. The movie was in XviD format, which would soon become an issue. So I hook up my Vista Media center to my 360 and it all works fine. All my WMV files play, but little else does. So I try to figure out what is going on, and it turns out that the 360 doesn't support almost any codecs at all. So I look for some solutions to hack together a way to stream media to the 360, including Transcode 360 and TVersity, neither of which were going to work or be easy to set up. So I figured it would be quicker to just convert the files.
So I ended up using VLC to transcode them to WMV using a batch script. Quick(ish) and easy, however it was far from an ideal solution. Microsoft needs to get off their ass and implement some other codecs, namely XviD and DivX. If it wants to compete with the Apple TV in the living room, this is a must-have feature.
Does anyone have a better solution to stream these types of files to a 360 from a Vista machine?
So I ended up using VLC to transcode them to WMV using a batch script. Quick(ish) and easy, however it was far from an ideal solution. Microsoft needs to get off their ass and implement some other codecs, namely XviD and DivX. If it wants to compete with the Apple TV in the living room, this is a must-have feature.
Does anyone have a better solution to stream these types of files to a 360 from a Vista machine?
Just so I am absolutely sure you are aware, this site has an RSS feed. You can subscribe to it on the left sidebar or by clicking the giant icon above, or the one in your navigation bar. Use whatever feed reader you prefer, but I prefer bloglines.com. I'm using the Vista sidebar for it which is nice, so I can get all my feeds right to my desktop at all times. So subscribe and let me know.
What feed reader does everyone use?
What feed reader does everyone use?
Just felt I should let you know that all content on this site is licensed under a Creative Commons license, specifically the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 license.
Open source/Creative Commons is my life. How about you?
Open source/Creative Commons is my life. How about you?
Yes, I know this is probably the shittiest blog you have ever seen, but I plan on updating it semi-regularly with whatever the hell I feel like updating it with.
For starters, my favorite sites include
xkcd.com
penny-arcade.com
digg.com
kotaku.com
engadget.com
boingboing.net
I am interested in computer science, and am majoring it it at Boston College, video games (Wii, PC, and DS), and comics (but I just started reading them, so don't assume I know too much).
Hope to see you stick around. Please comment and introduce yourself!
For starters, my favorite sites include
xkcd.com
penny-arcade.com
digg.com
kotaku.com
engadget.com
boingboing.net
I am interested in computer science, and am majoring it it at Boston College, video games (Wii, PC, and DS), and comics (but I just started reading them, so don't assume I know too much).
Hope to see you stick around. Please comment and introduce yourself!
