Monsieur Webbins' 360 Revival Thread - The Bear and Badger

Dark Soldier

Mod74 wrote:

A long time, as far as I know, possibly forever.

Jesus fuck, I've been avoiding those files, up until last night. Thought it was xvid/divx only etc.

Learn something new every day.

adored

2 things;

1) Does the 360 play MKV files?

2) Super Hang On shits all over Shinobi. Trufax etc.

Unlikely

Die of pain.

Olimite

adored wrote:

2 things; 1) Does the 360 play MKV files?

Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think so. You may need something like PS3 Media Server to help.

I just use this now...

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Designer-Habitat-Nano-3-0-Flashdrives/dp/B005ERNITE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1337610970&sr=8-1

Unlikely

Convert them to .avi files with mkv2vob.Â I think that's what it's called.

Mod74

adored wrote:

2 things; 1) Does the 360 play MKV files?

afaik not natively but it will play them if they're on a PC and you stream them. You don't need to use specialist software, sharing the library from WMP will do it.

adored

Will give it a go tonight, the PS3'll only stream AVI's so if the 360 streams MKV's that'll be a bonus, can't be arsed coverting them (thanks for the suggestion though).

Unlikely wrote:

Die of pain.

To the pain, not to the death, tsk.

rickjoyce

I use tversity on the xb and it won't stream mkv's so I was avoiding x264 but the smaller ones are mp4's which are a ok.Â

First to get this loves Shinobi the most.

Shinobi Forever - 25g
Rescue Naoko without using a continue in Revenge of Shinobi.
[table][/table]

rickjoyce

adored wrote:

rickjoyce wrote:

To murder prostitutes or solve crimes? Yeah, I guess maybe a little.

Assuming you've been tempted by the game rather than becoming a fictional detective solving real life crimes, I'll send you it once I'm done with it.

Sounds good, chars!

[Deleted User]

No original Wonderboy :0(

Mod74

Gonzo wrote:

think my xvox is giving up the ghost. Number 2, had a good innings (2008 I think). Scratches discs like a fuckwang and now the output on vga is fecked. Thing is, the vga cable's the only thing that allows me to output audio via optical. Or is there another way? Could stick an hdmi in there but would lose the audio. Maybe risk a vga cable, see if that's the problem. Don't wanna buy another machine just for 1 year.

There's an optical out dongle if you're using HDMI

http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_nkw=xbox+360+optical+adapter&_sacat=0&_odkw=xbox+360+optical+dongle&_osacat=0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m270.l1313

VGA cables are notoriously shite for dodgy connections, especially if it's a 3rd party one.

Webbins

Ouchy, I'm guessing the free fix period is well and truly over. Do they bother repairing them anymore for a fee or just bung you along a refurbed Slim?

Elmlea

I want to watch iPlayer etc. Â If I pay for one of these "use our DNS" services, then just stick the DNS servers in the Xbox's network config page, will that work?

pantyfire

Apparently yup.
someone posted tunlr:

It says on their FAQS page that you can access iPlayer from outside the UK and its free.

isanbard

Tunlr works on ps3 now as of this morning I believe. I'll go post in the Sony fred too.

Mod74

Tunlr still working no hitch and fast on mine for US Netflix. Bless em.

Webbins

XBLA DotW

â€¢ Outland - ~~800 MSP~~ 400 MSP
â€¢ Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes - ~~1200 MSP~~ 600 MSP
â€¢ Beyond Good & Evil HD - ~~800 MSP~~ 400 MSP

WP7 DotW

â€¢ Monopoly ~~Â£3.99~~ Â£2.29

WP7 release for this week is:

â€¢ Droplitz Delight - Â£0.79

Dark Soldier

BG&E is still too much.

pantyfire

Might and Magic: Clash of Heroes is an absolute cracker.

Hodge360

Buy a 4gig slim,crack open your harddrive and stick it in. All good.Â
You can get a caddy to make sure the hdd fits snug for about Â£3 on eBay.

Brooks

You can just redownload your Xblah purches, is what I did when I got a 360 again.

Hodge360

I had no problems with XBL stuff. There's two casings that need to be opened you need torx(?) and philips screwdrivers I think. If you don't have them you could prob squeeze a flat head in and literally crack it but I'd be worried off breaking the hdd.

Hodge360

Look it up on YouTube,it's very easy. Even you could do it!!

Elmlea

[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Weâ€™re using sophisticated technologies (a.k.a. the Tunlr Secret Sauce Â©) to re-adress certain data envelopes, tricking the receiver into thinking the envelope originated from within the U.S. For these data envelopes, Tunlr is transparently creating a network tunnel from your location to our U.S.-based servers. Any data thatâ€™s not directly related to the video or music content providers which Tunlr supports is not only left untouched, itâ€™s also not even routed through Tunlr.[/font]

Wow; that bit in bold is particularly impressive! Â

Only snag I can see is that I'm happy with a US DNS for Netflix etc, but I need a British one for iPlayer et al. Â I wonder if it's smart enough to handle both situations?

Mod74

Nope.

Swapping between the two DNS settings doesn't take more than a couple of clicks though.

Alternatively you could use one machine or PC for UK content and the other for US. Tunlr works on PS3Â for example.

Mod74

I thought you'd got an answer.

This thread has the answers you need, to save me typing them again.

http://www.thebearandbadger.co.uk/discussion/comment/12388#Comment_12388

Not sure how to link to the top of the page, so just scroll up.

Elmlea

Mod74 wrote:

Nope. Swapping between the two DNS settings doesn't take more than a couple of clicks though. Alternatively you could use one machine or PC for UK content and the other for US. Tunlr works on PS3Â for example.

They said I should still be able to access the US Netflix library. Â I'm not sure at all how that works, unless their system is designed specifically to make it look like you're in the US for Netflix/Hulu/etc, and the UK for iPlayer, 4OD etc.

They implied the only thing that works on the 360 is Netflix anyway, so I'd be limited to iPlayer through the iMac. Â Can you download from iPlayer, in an easy, convenient way?

Mod74

If you can access it then yeah, there's the iPlayer Desktop download system.

30 days to start watching a program before it expires, 7 days to finish watching it once you start before it expires.

Works really well actually, I used it on my old PC that wasn't very happy playing streamed HD stuff full screen.

You can HDMI out it to your TV as well. Or at least my PC lets me.

Dan_Dare

Anyone else totally unable to connect to live on Virgin? Had a poke around the webz and it looks widespread, which I had no idea when we signed up....fuck.

FranticPea

Been fine for us.

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