Stream Videos from your Mac to your Xbox 360
Connect360 was just updated today to support Video streaming. Connect360 allows Music, Picture and now Video access from your Mac to your Xbox 360. It will scan your iTunes and iPhoto libraries and share them to your Xbox 360 over the network. I love this program and is a must have for any Mac and Xbox 360 owner. Version 2.8 just added streaming Video support that was added to the Xbox 360 in the Fall Dashboard update. After you install the new version and start the service, it will index your “Movies” folder . Right now its only WMV support as thats all the Xbox 360 supports but I’m hoping they will find a way to support transcoding mpeg4 files somehow.
Hi there – randomly stumbled across your blog, and I’m wondering if you’ve ever used Connect360 pointing to your itunes library on an external volume? I’ve got all my music on a firewire drive, and with the latest versions of itunes and connect360, and my mac running osx 10.4, Connect360 can’t find my itunes library. The tip on the nullriver site about making an alias doesn’t seem to have worked, although its not too explicit, so maybe I’m aliasing the wrong thing or putting it in the wrong place. (I’d like to think I’m not that dumb, but you never can tell.)
In either case, I’m wondering if you’ve ever tried anything like this, and if so, if you ran into (and solved) a similar problem. I’ve got to think this is a common issue – mp3s take up so much room I know I’m not the only one keeping them on a separate drive.
Thanks!
@Tim – What I used to do was keep my itunes xml files on my macbook and just keep the Itunes Music folder on the external. That seems to work best for me.
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Thanks
I like how this option works, but it is weird how mac only came up with this while Microsoft created the system?
You can stream to your 360 directly from windows media player, you just have to share it. Mac had to come up with something, because Windows already had something in place.
@Richtor. they did come up with it… congrats for them. ill give them that, but to the ppl on here trying to stream, just boot up in windows (mac came up with boot camp first). if you are worried about all your stuff being on your mac partition, just put it on an external. its easy and free.
Here is an EASY and FREE way of streaming from your Mac to your Xbox 360. Very simple to accomplish and did I say free?
http://howtogofree.blogspot.com/2009/07/free-solution-to-stream-video-to-xbox.html