Are You Happy With Your Xbox's Media Client Capabilities?

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Are You Happy With You Xbox Hardware?

Yes
18
40%
No
27
60%
 
Total votes: 45

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Are You Happy With Your Xbox's Media Client Capabilities?

Post by mgillespie » Fri Apr 25, 2008 8:33 am

Each manufactuers forum, I am posting a sticky poll, so others can get a instant feel if other users are happy with their purchases.

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Re: Are You Happy With You Xbox Hardware?

Post by peter- » Wed May 07, 2008 8:27 pm

I voted yes

pro

- big fun with some games
- enough media options for me
- perfect quality graphics, nice menu's
- cheap

cons

- ugly design
- little noisy

enough ++ to make me happy

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Re: Are You Happy With Your Xbox's Media Client Capabilities?

Post by kaneda187 » Thu Mar 19, 2009 11:18 am

I said no because i cant get it to stream video! :x i think this is an issue more to do with twonky though, I love my xbox its great!

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Re: Are You Happy With Your Xbox's Media Client Capabilities?

Post by SnailUK » Sun Apr 19, 2009 8:51 am

The 360s media capabilties are basic at best. They work well, just a pity only the basis are available.

Its very interesting, that Microsoft are soo forward thinging about the gaming side of their consoles, yet they really dont understand the multi-media side of things.

Forums like this show people of all ages are really interested in digital media, and home connectivity, and if Microsoft were more forward thinking, they'd do a serious overhaul on the multi-media side of the 360 (and make the hardware quiet), and start selling loads, to all the people that are currently buying UPnP Music/Video players.

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Re: Are You Happy With Your Xbox's Media Client Capabilities?

Post by dboling » Wed Apr 29, 2009 12:11 am

The reasons I said not is:

1. Internet Radio Missing on Xbox 360 but works fine for http://192.168.1.1:9000/webbrowse .
2. Picture function doesn't seem to traverrse directories anymore.
3. Web based nav creation menu no longer exists in 5.?, wasn't so hot in 4.? anyway.
4. Directory structure seems to be missing for video on xbox 360,

I just upgraded to 5.? and so far the list above is all I have found not working for the xbox, everything else seems to work fine when accessing via a PC.

Music tracks: 1196
Photos: 0
Videos: 441


as you can see this lists photos as 0, the actual count should be in the thousands.

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Re: Are You Happy With Your Xbox's Media Client Capabilities?

Post by wax_job » Thu Jan 21, 2010 9:53 pm

[/soapbox] Streaming works fine from twonky (wmv/avi/mp3) but no Artwork with old versions of Twonky [soapbox]

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Re: Are You Happy With Your Xbox's Media Client Capabilities

Post by stalkus » Sun Apr 24, 2011 9:47 am

The only thing about xbox is that it doesnt include folder directory when searching for music. All of my music is in sub folders category Bands A -Z with individual folders of the bands themselves inside on my windows home server. When you have over 2500 albums this is the only way to keep them in check. so looking for music on my xbox via band names, genre etc when not all the id3 tags are correct is very frustrating and that is why and then purchased an ipod touch and ran twonky mobile on it via my av amp. Its about time microsoft sorted this as its just not good enough

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Re: Are You Happy With Your Xbox's Media Client Capabilities

Post by kevinalex » Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:47 am

360s media capabilties are basic at best. They do they work well, just a pity you are available.When basis in the album check.Its them live in very interesting is that Microsoft forth his peace, yet on the gaming side Hsu thinging multimedia side of things really do not understand.

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Re: Are You Happy With Your Xbox's Media Client Capabilities

Post by Corsair » Mon Jul 11, 2011 3:51 am

I have a QNAP NAS TS-219 which I'm currently running firmware 3.3.9 build 0120 with Twonky 6.0.33.

My scenario is currently as follows for my .avi files with .srt subtitle files (I think there are XviD files):

1. When you using my Samsung TV (Model: LA46C650L1F) to watch movies from Twonky on NAS the subtitles work fine. (i.e. the connection here is TV <-> Router <-> Twonky on NAS).

2. When using the Xbox 360 to watch movies from Twonky on NAS the subtitles do not appear. (i.e. the connection here is TV <-> Xbox 360 <-> Router <-> Twonky on NAS).

This is a bit frustrating and I don't know if the issue has to do with Twonky, the 360, or both. Either way - it is something that definitely needs to be fixed.

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Re: Are You Happy With Your Xbox's Media Client Capabilities?

Post by richardjews » Fri Sep 08, 2017 3:05 pm

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Re: Are You Happy With You Xbox Hardware?

Post by richardjews » Thu Dec 27, 2018 12:58 pm

peter- wrote:
Wed May 07, 2008 8:27 pm
I voted yes

pro

- big fun with some games
- enough media options for me
- perfect quality graphics, nice menu's
- cheap
https://phenq-reviews.com/uk/
cons

- ugly design
- little noisy

enough ++ to make me happy
All of these are not fairy and making the perfect pout

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