Comments on: The Fall Update http://runtime360.com/2006/10/30/the-fall-update/ on homebrew and misc stuff Fri, 21 Nov 2008 19:52:52 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.2 by: NekoFever http://runtime360.com/2006/10/30/the-fall-update/#comment-389 Sun, 12 Nov 2006 17:28:36 +0000 http://runtime360.com/2006/10/30/the-fall-update/#comment-389 For those who care, Connect360 now supports streaming of WMV files to the 360 from the Mac. I'd assume transcoding just isn't realistic at the moment when the best solution for playing them is a third party one, but I'll take this quite happily. The HD samples from the WMV HD page look beautiful. Now can we expand the functionality to support more than just WMV please, Microsoft? Even if DivX and XviD are on dodgy ground why not go for H.264 and basic MPEG-4? For those who care, Connect360 now supports streaming of WMV files to the 360 from the Mac. I’d assume transcoding just isn’t realistic at the moment when the best solution for playing them is a third party one, but I’ll take this quite happily. The HD samples from the WMV HD page look beautiful.

Now can we expand the functionality to support more than just WMV please, Microsoft? Even if DivX and XviD are on dodgy ground why not go for H.264 and basic MPEG-4?

]]> by: Knightdemon http://runtime360.com/2006/10/30/the-fall-update/#comment-387 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 20:01:10 +0000 http://runtime360.com/2006/10/30/the-fall-update/#comment-387 Hello runtime. I am trying to get access to the source code that you pointed to. I could not manage to log in as anonymous and wondered if you had any more details. I'm a C# developer who is interested in seeing how things are done and to re-compile to .net 2. Hello runtime. I am trying to get access to the source code that you pointed to. I could not manage to log in as anonymous and wondered if you had any more details. I’m a C# developer who is interested in seeing how things are done and to re-compile to .net 2.

]]> by: yanksno1 http://runtime360.com/2006/10/30/the-fall-update/#comment-386 Wed, 08 Nov 2006 01:10:53 +0000 http://runtime360.com/2006/10/30/the-fall-update/#comment-386 Congrads on the family runtime. Someone's really gotta come up with a plugin for WMP 11 for this. It works great connecting my XP pc and 360, but the only thing it's missing is Divx/xvid! Pretty please? Congrads on the family runtime. Someone’s really gotta come up with a plugin for WMP 11 for this. It works great connecting my XP pc and 360, but the only thing it’s missing is Divx/xvid! Pretty please?

]]> by: NekoFever http://runtime360.com/2006/10/30/the-fall-update/#comment-385 Sat, 04 Nov 2006 17:38:42 +0000 http://runtime360.com/2006/10/30/the-fall-update/#comment-385 <a href="http://www.flip4mac.com/wmv_studio.htm" rel="nofollow">Flip4Mac</a> does a plugin for Quicktime on the Mac which allows it to play back and encode WMV and WMA files, so it's been done in a commercial application at least. Microsoft even subsidises their playback component in lieu of updating the dreadful Windows Media Player for Mac. I've been in touch with Nullriver and they confirmed that Connect360 will be implementing video streaming in the future. Even if it only streams videos that are already native WMV that'll be OK with me (this iBook is never going to be able to transcode video in real-time, to be fair) but some of their other applications allow encoding from WMV, so I'm sure they can manage something. Flip4Mac does a plugin for Quicktime on the Mac which allows it to play back and encode WMV and WMA files, so it’s been done in a commercial application at least. Microsoft even subsidises their playback component in lieu of updating the dreadful Windows Media Player for Mac.

I’ve been in touch with Nullriver and they confirmed that Connect360 will be implementing video streaming in the future. Even if it only streams videos that are already native WMV that’ll be OK with me (this iBook is never going to be able to transcode video in real-time, to be fair) but some of their other applications allow encoding from WMV, so I’m sure they can manage something.

]]> by: bmaltais http://runtime360.com/2006/10/30/the-fall-update/#comment-384 Thu, 02 Nov 2006 17:10:55 +0000 http://runtime360.com/2006/10/30/the-fall-update/#comment-384 Hey Runtime, congratulation! Being a father is a great thing (I have 3 kids myself). It will take you a good 6 months post delivery to get back a life ;-) On the XP to 360 streaming front it work a treat! As fas as MAC goes a port of WMA encoder will have to be done. The 360 won't play anything that has something else than a WMA audio in it. Right now I don't think MAC can encode to WMA audio. Hey Runtime, congratulation! Being a father is a great thing (I have 3 kids myself). It will take you a good 6 months post delivery to get back a life ;-)

On the XP to 360 streaming front it work a treat! As fas as MAC goes a port of WMA encoder will have to be done. The 360 won’t play anything that has something else than a WMA audio in it. Right now I don’t think MAC can encode to WMA audio.

]]> by: runtime 360 http://runtime360.com/2006/10/30/the-fall-update/#comment-382 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:27:57 +0000 http://runtime360.com/2006/10/30/the-fall-update/#comment-382 Thanks! Always great to hear from you. Now, if you see me playing Viva Pinata you now know why. The shame of it!! Come to think of it, theres not a heck of a lot of 'kid' friendly games on the 360, might have to get a Wii after all! I'm not sure what the story is with the Mac re: WMV conversion, but Connect360 takes advantage of the fact that Windows Media Connect is a UPNP server. If Microsoft have done things properly they will have extended that to support WMV file streaming, if thats the case then its not a huge leap for someone to take something like VLC port it across to the Mac and integrate it into Connect360 or an open source UPNP server. I'm quietly confident that it'll happen sooner rather than later. Thanks! Always great to hear from you. Now, if you see me playing Viva Pinata you now know why. The shame of it!! Come to think of it, theres not a heck of a lot of ‘kid’ friendly games on the 360, might have to get a Wii after all!

I’m not sure what the story is with the Mac re: WMV conversion, but Connect360 takes advantage of the fact that Windows Media Connect is a UPNP server. If Microsoft have done things properly they will have extended that to support WMV file streaming, if thats the case then its not a huge leap for someone to take something like VLC port it across to the Mac and integrate it into Connect360 or an open source UPNP server. I’m quietly confident that it’ll happen sooner rather than later.

]]> by: NekoFever http://runtime360.com/2006/10/30/the-fall-update/#comment-381 Tue, 31 Oct 2006 11:47:00 +0000 http://runtime360.com/2006/10/30/the-fall-update/#comment-381 Congratulations on the news! If you're going to give an excuse for not spending as much time with games then there aren't many better than that ;) With this dash update what I really need is some way to transcode and stream video from my Mac. Connect360 does that perfectly with my iTunes and iPhoto libraries and I hope that the functionality will be extended to videos in the near future. In the meantime I'll have to hope that my dad's ancient XP machine can handle the task of streaming 720p video over the network. Congratulations on the news! If you’re going to give an excuse for not spending as much time with games then there aren’t many better than that ;)

With this dash update what I really need is some way to transcode and stream video from my Mac. Connect360 does that perfectly with my iTunes and iPhoto libraries and I hope that the functionality will be extended to videos in the near future. In the meantime I’ll have to hope that my dad’s ancient XP machine can handle the task of streaming 720p video over the network.

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