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Is there any way of playing movies on the Xbox from an external hard drive?
AlexBrand
Posted 2010-04-19T20:30:40.077
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External hard drive and Xbox
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Yes, there is. Use a DLNA server to expose those files. One example may be a machine with Windows Media Center. Another (which is what I'm using) is a NAS server. All my media files are available to my Xbox 360.
Traveling Tech Guy
Posted 2010-04-19T20:30:40.077
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what OS are you running on your NAS server? what software provides the DLNA services? details are good. :) – quack quixote – 2010-04-19T22:18:21.903
I'm using a D-Link DNS 323. It comes with a version of Linux and a DLNA server pre-installed. The internet is full of hacks, allowing you to run whatever you want on it, if you don't like the original (which works great for me). – Traveling Tech Guy – 2010-04-19T22:57:24.617
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Directly plugging a usb hard drive into the Xbox if it is under 512GB and in FAT32 will play video formats in "system video player".
Brok3n
Posted 2010-04-19T20:30:40.077
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1questions about interfacing a game console to another computer for media playback are fine. questions about connecting a hard-drive to an Xbox via, say, USB, are not. since this doesn't specify i'm inclined to reopen it. – quack quixote – 2010-04-19T22:16:10.317