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Update for MCX on Xbox 360 available

denmor — Wed, 25 Jun 2008 02:18:00 GMT

There is a new update available for Extender users on the Xbox 360. It addresses three key issues:

This update addresses a picture quality issue that occurs when you use Media Center Extender on an Xbox 360 console that has a High-Definition Multimedia Interface (HDMI) connector to the TV for video and a Sony/Philips Digital Interface Format (S/PDIF) connection to the audio device for audio.
This update addresses an issue in which the Media Center Extender stops responding (hangs) when you play a large non-WMV video over an HTTP session.
This update provides support for 50Hz output together with better quality for HD models. This feature applies primarily to regions that use the PAL video standard.

More details on what's in the fix can be found by reading KB950125.

Learned about a new feature of MCX today...

denmor — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 23:32:00 GMT

Today I learned that you can start watching a TV show on the MCE PC, stop it, and then resume it on an Extender (and vice versa). Not sure I'll do that all that often, but nice to know that I can roam around the house and pick up where I left off.

MCX and Spring '07 update for Xbox 360

denmor — Tue, 10 Apr 2007 03:30:00 GMT

The upcoming Spring update for Xbox 360 has a lot of new cool features, including support for H.264 and MPEG-4 Part 2. So this begs the questions of whether MCX will now be able to play back videos with this format. Unfortunately the answer is no. This is because MCX uses its own set of video codecs seperate from the Xbox 360 dashboard (so for those counting that would mean there are 2 WMV codecs running on the Xbox 360 -- one in MCX and one in the dashboard). Therefore in order for MCX to play back new types of content the MCX title would have to be updated to add these codecs. And any MCX update for the Xbox 360 would be released through Windows, not through Xbox Live.