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Transcode 360 Beta 2 has been released, featuring a radically overhauled engine for playback of XviD and DivX (as well as a wide variety of other formats), boasting higher picture quality, lower CPU consumption, faster than real-time transcoding (using FFMPEG under the bonnet); super-tight integration enabling Pause, Skip Forward and Backward, Resume and Restart while […]

I think I’m on the verge of collapsing. I’m just about done setting up forums, online documentation and the various other things needed to support tonight’s release of Transcode 360 Beta 2.
Transcode 360 has gone through quite a transition since it previous incarnation, such that much of the core stuff underneath the […]

A new application has been released in the same vein as Transcode 360. Although it works in a similar manner, what MCE Video Encoder brings to the table is the much requested ability to skip forward/backward/stop and pause - the only catch is you’ll need to flip back to the Info -> More menu; […]

Sorry for the lack of updates people. I am busy with a new release and plan on holding onto it for a bit longer until I can add a couple more features. At the moment the new build mostly consists of improvements in the install process and stuff to help folks with network […]

With the weekend almost over I wanted to wrap up a few odds and ends. Since the release of Transcode 360 (T360), there’s been a lot of great feedback from the community and so a word of thanks must go to those of you guys hanging out in the Xbox Scene forums helping other […]

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 […]

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 […]