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I did a bit of investigation concerning codecs and their compatibility with Transcode 360 (T360) and Windows Media Encoder in general.
To get my PC as clean as possible the first thing I did was to remove all video codecs capable of rendering MPEG4/DivX/XviD video, since I was only interested in video codec compatibility (being satisfied […]

Theres been a pretty mixed response to the first beta which was to be expected as Windows Media Encoder is extremely finnicky about which codecs work and don’t. The other sort of problem is permissions, if you don’t provide Transcode 360 with a valid username/password at install time then the service will not […]

Transcode 360 enters into its public beta as of today!
“Designed for Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005 and the Xbox 360, Transcode 360 aims to broaden the support for a wide range of video media including DivX and XviD.”
The package comes with a compiled HTML manual which is worth a quick read through.

You can […]

Spent a stupidly excessive amount of time moving the blog, e-mail and source control to a new provider so I’m a bit exhausted with it all, but I promise a decent update on Transcode 360 tomorrow!

It shouldn’t come as a surprise that I like many others, was a little underwhelmed with the media capabilities of the Xbox 360 out-of-the-box. Yes it can serve as a ‘multimedia hub’ with some pretty big caveats. You’ll need a Windows Media Center PC before you can even think about streaming your own video content […]

Its been a while coming but I finally joined the rest of the 21st centuary and setup this blog. Actually there is an ulterior motive, I’ve just completed work on the first iteration of a pet project called ‘Transcode 360′ and I needed some place on the web where I could provide some background […]