Xbox 360 + Vista RC2 + Transcode 360 =?

Posted by Irwan

October 13, 2006

A couple days ago I sent my laptop to Computer Center below the library to have it reghosted. I prefer to reformat it myself but somehow my dvdrom can’t read dual layer dvd. After uninstalling a bunch of preinstalled software that I never heard of, I decided to install Microsoft Vista RC2 on my laptop.

The installation was quite simple but with a couple of bugs which didn’t take much of my time to kill ‘em. The appearance of the new windows is awesome. I was struck by its clean and sleek appearance which they called it Aero. Large portion of the graphic work is done by graphic card, so it won’t clogged your cpu with trivial job.

The first thing that I wanna do with the Vista is to get it work with my Xbox 360. Erm… actually that desire came after Vista notified me that it detected an extender device. Without downloading/installing anything, Vista brought out the extender setup and ask me for 8-digit code. The installing was a breeze and within minutes, the xbox can stream WMV videos, music and pictures from my laptop but not DivX. Here is where Transcode 360 might help. Before that, I just want to let you know that the Media Center has a new interface which a little bit more complex with more control.

After downloading .Net 1.1, set it as windows XP compatible and restart, my excitement was met with disappointment. . First, the Windows Defender blocked as a startup program, then the program failed to start but somehow succeed for the 2nd try. When I tried to transcode it, t he media center reported that the plugin fail to work and shut it down.