Streaming with /mceDivX360

I finally found a way to stream DivX movies fairly reliably to my XBOX 360... This is a freeware addin for Windows Media Center called /mceDivX360.

What it does is allow you to create a list of DivX movies, pass that list across to Windows Media Encoder (a free MS tool, and a prerequisite for this method), and play them from the XBOX 360 by viewing the stream from the PC.

What this is actually doing behind the scenes is encoding (hence the encoder) the movie / tv show / whatever to ASX / ASF on the fly, and passing THAT to the 360. The 360 knows how to play an ASF, and does so with no problem.

Caveats:

• The encoding/streaming process is not cheap -- performance on the host pc will suffer, but you don't really care about that, right? You're watching a movie.
• There's an issue with DivX potentially giving problems. Check the event log on the PC after a failed attempt. The fix is here if you see something like "Unauthorized window was detect while running the Media Center Experience" (complete with typo)