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Windows 7 Streams Media To the Xbox 360 and PS3 Seamlessly

Posted by Soulskill on from the let's-see-this-on-the-big-screen dept.

HardcoreWare reports that the release candidate for Windows 7 contains improved video codecs, and does a much better job of streaming media to popular consoles out of the box. "No longer will you have to install special REG files to 'trick' Windows into streaming video to your PS3 or XBOX 360. And no longer will you have to use UPnP media servers like TVersity that transcode video, severely reducing quality and cause unnecessary CPU load on the server."

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  1. Re:Matroska and ASS Subs? by FictionPimp · · Score: 0, Troll

    I've often thought it was a conspiracy that all pirate downloads for HD content are in MKV. It's not like you cant do high def content in containers that all major consoles will play.

    All pirate downloads seem to not work with apple tv's, 360's, or ps3's out of the "box" so to speak. Yet when I transcode my own video's I can easily pick a format that any of those 3 will play.

    In fact, I've straight up associated in my mind mkv files with piracy.

  2. Re:how is this a good thing? by CronoCloud · · Score: 0, Troll

    Why are you using Matroska when the MPEG4 containers are more widely supported by consumer devices? It's your choice to use the pirates format of choice when you could just use MPEG4.

  3. Re:Matroska and ASS Subs? by CronoCloud · · Score: 0, Troll

    If pirates used MP4 containers, they couldn't complain anymore. IMHO they don't want their stuff to work on the commercial boxes, thay way they can proclaim how superior their setupfoo is.