Media Center only sees .WMV files

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Hello,
I am hoping someone out there can help me with this issue. I have
installed Vista Ultimate and am attempting to use Media Center with my
XBOX 360. So far the connection and everything is working great but I
am haveing a problem seeing video files. When I go into Media Center--
>Pictures & Videos I can see the default three videos Bear.wmv,
butterfly.wmv, and Lake.wmv but I am unable to see any of the other
vidoe files I have pointed the Media Center to watch. So then I added
one of each of the followinf files to the Documents/video/Sample Video
folder, .ISO, .VOD, .WMV, .Mpeg4. I then went into Media Center and
just as I suspected Media Center could see the WMV file I added and a
new folder I created but none of the other video files. My
understanding is Media Center is compatible
with .VOD, .WMV, .ISO, .Mpeg4, and all kinds of others. So why can it
only see the WMV files. Is there a setting somewhere that control
what file types it looks at. Any help would be greatly appriciated.
Mark
 
mheinle wrote:
> Hello,
> I am hoping someone out there can help me with this issue. I have
> installed Vista Ultimate and am attempting to use Media Center with my
> XBOX 360. So far the connection and everything is working great but I
> am haveing a problem seeing video files. When I go into Media
> Center--
>> Pictures & Videos I can see the default three videos Bear.wmv,
> butterfly.wmv, and Lake.wmv but I am unable to see any of the other
> vidoe files I have pointed the Media Center to watch. So then I added
> one of each of the followinf files to the Documents/video/Sample Video
> folder, .ISO, .VOD, .WMV, .Mpeg4. I then went into Media Center and
> just as I suspected Media Center could see the WMV file I added and a
> new folder I created but none of the other video files. My
> understanding is Media Center is compatible
> with .VOD, .WMV, .ISO, .Mpeg4, and all kinds of others. So why can it
> only see the WMV files. Is there a setting somewhere that control
> what file types it looks at. Any help would be greatly appriciated.
> Mark
========================
Maybe the following info will offer some ideas:

Windows Photo Gallery: FAQ

What picture file formats and video file
formats are supported by Photo Gallery?
http://tinyurl.com/2tl5wd

http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/d29d1fe4-eecd-4ae0-9efa-423098e5406b1033.mspx

What picture file formats are supported by
Photo Gallery? Photo Gallery will show pictures
with any of these file types:

.. BMP, . JPEG, . JFIF, . TIFF, . PNG, . WDP

If Windows Movie Maker is installed, Photo
Gallery will also play videos in these file types:

.. ASF, . AVI, . MPEG, . WMV

Note: Not all editions of Windows Vista come
with Windows Movie Maker installed.

--

John Inzer
MS Picture It! -
Digital Image MVP

Digital Image
Highlights and FAQs
http://tinyurl.com/aczzp

Notice
This is not tech support
I am a volunteer

Solutions that work for
me may not work for you

Proceed at your own risk
 
On Nov 24, 10:47 pm, "John Inzer" <oo...@doobie.xyz> wrote:
> mheinlewrote:
> > Hello,
> > I am hoping someone out there can help me with this issue. I have
> > installed Vista Ultimate and am attempting to use Media Center with my
> > XBOX 360. So far the connection and everything is working great but I
> > am haveing a problem seeing video files. When I go into Media
> > Center--
> >> Pictures & Videos I can see the default three videos Bear.wmv,
> > butterfly.wmv, and Lake.wmv but I am unable to see any of the other
> > vidoe files I have pointed the Media Center to watch. So then I added
> > one of each of the followinf files to the Documents/video/Sample Video
> > folder, .ISO, .VOD, .WMV, .Mpeg4. I then went into Media Center and
> > just as I suspected Media Center could see the WMV file I added and a
> > new folder I created but none of the other video files. My
> > understanding is Media Center is compatible
> > with .VOD, .WMV, .ISO, .Mpeg4, and all kinds of others. So why can it
> > only see the WMV files. Is there a setting somewhere that control
> > what file types it looks at. Any help would be greatly appriciated.
> > Mark
>
> ========================
> Maybe the following info will offer some ideas:
>
> Windows Photo Gallery: FAQ
>
> What picture file formats and video file
> formats are supported by Photo Gallery?http://tinyurl.com/2tl5wd
>
> http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/d29d1fe4-eecd-4ae...
>
> What picture file formats are supported by
> Photo Gallery? Photo Gallery will show pictures
> with any of these file types:
>
> . BMP, . JPEG, . JFIF, . TIFF, . PNG, . WDP
>
> If Windows Movie Maker is installed, Photo
> Gallery will also play videos in these file types:
>
> . ASF, . AVI, . MPEG, . WMV
>
> Note: Not all editions of Windows Vista come
> with Windows Movie Maker installed.
>
> --
>
> John Inzer
> MS Picture It! -
> Digital Image MVP
>
> Digital Image
> Highlights and FAQshttp://tinyurl.com/aczzp
>
> Notice
> This is not tech support
> I am a volunteer
>
> Solutions that work for
> me may not work for you
>
> Proceed at your own risk- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

This did not help at all. Everything Microsoft provides for their
Media Center is promotional stuff it seems like. They have no real
documentation on trouboleshooting. I am hoping someone else out there
is experiencing the same issues. I have scoured Microsoft and can't
find anything that helps figure this out.
 
Haha, I like it, I do the same kind of problem analysis sometimes: just
throw ideas out there and figure out what works. =)

ISO and VOB I assume you're just hoping on? Those aren't support sharing
types. The Help file explicitly lists the supported sharing types:
"Video files, such as Windows Media Video (.wmv), AVI (.avi), MPEG-1 (.mpeg,
..mpg), and MPEG-2 (.mpeg, .mpg) files. Note that DVD-Video discs inserted
into your computer can't be shared."

I believe the Zune Media Player will share out MPEG4 to the Xbox 360. But
as far as ISO/VOB: no. If you convert that to standard MPEG2 it should
work. =)

Cheers,
-Zach
--
Speaking for myself only.
See http://zachd.com/pss/pss.html for some helpful WMP info.
This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
--

"mheinle" <mheinle@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:c04c6876-b070-4216-9b00-91e224127a31@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
> Hello,
> I am hoping someone out there can help me with this issue. I have
> installed Vista Ultimate and am attempting to use Media Center with my
> XBOX 360. So far the connection and everything is working great but I
> am haveing a problem seeing video files. When I go into Media Center--
>>Pictures & Videos I can see the default three videos Bear.wmv,
> butterfly.wmv, and Lake.wmv but I am unable to see any of the other
> vidoe files I have pointed the Media Center to watch. So then I added
> one of each of the followinf files to the Documents/video/Sample Video
> folder, .ISO, .VOD, .WMV, .Mpeg4. I then went into Media Center and
> just as I suspected Media Center could see the WMV file I added and a
> new folder I created but none of the other video files. My
> understanding is Media Center is compatible
> with .VOD, .WMV, .ISO, .Mpeg4, and all kinds of others. So why can it
> only see the WMV files. Is there a setting somewhere that control
> what file types it looks at. Any help would be greatly appriciated.
> Mark
 
On Nov 26, 12:45 am, "zachd [MSFT]"
<za...@nomailplz.online.microsoft.com> wrote:
> Haha, I like it, I do the same kind of problem analysis sometimes: just
> throw ideas out there and figure out what works. =)
>
> ISO and VOB I assume you're just hoping on? Those aren't support sharing
> types. The Help file explicitly lists the supported sharing types:
> "Video files, such as Windows Media Video (.wmv), AVI (.avi), MPEG-1 (.mpeg,
> .mpg), and MPEG-2 (.mpeg, .mpg) files. Note that DVD-Video discs inserted
> into your computer can't be shared."
>
> I believe the Zune Media Player will share out MPEG4 to the Xbox 360. But
> as far as ISO/VOB: no. If you convert that to standard MPEG2 it should
> work. =)
>
> Cheers,
> -Zach
> --
> Speaking for myself only.
> Seehttp://zachd.com/pss/pss.htmlfor some helpful WMP info.
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and confers no rights.
> --
>
> "mheinle" <mhei...@gmail.com> wrote in message
>
> news:c04c6876-b070-4216-9b00-91e224127a31@e10g2000prf.googlegroups.com...
>
>
>
> > Hello,
> > I am hoping someone out there can help me with this issue. I have
> > installed Vista Ultimate and am attempting to use Media Center with my
> > XBOX 360. So far the connection and everything is working great but I
> > am haveing a problem seeing video files. When I go into Media Center--
> >>Pictures & Videos I can see the default three videos Bear.wmv,
> > butterfly.wmv, and Lake.wmv but I am unable to see any of the other
> > vidoe files I have pointed the Media Center to watch. So then I added
> > one of each of the followinf files to the Documents/video/Sample Video
> > folder, .ISO, .VOD, .WMV, .Mpeg4. I then went into Media Center and
> > just as I suspected Media Center could see the WMV file I added and a
> > new folder I created but none of the other video files. My
> > understanding is Media Center is compatible
> > with .VOD, .WMV, .ISO, .Mpeg4, and all kinds of others. So why can it
> > only see the WMV files. Is there a setting somewhere that control
> > what file types it looks at. Any help would be greatly appriciated.
> > Mark- Hide quoted text -
>
> - Show quoted text -

Yeah I found some docs that explained there is no way to get Media
Center to read VOB's unless you do some jimmy rigging in which case
the 360 may crah. The other was to convert to WMV but that will loose
alot of video quality. The is a software out there called my movies
at mymovies.dk and daemon tools at daemontools.cc that is supposed to
allow you to view ISO files but I have been unable to get that to work
as well. I guess the easiest answer is to bypass the 360 and just use
a PC to pull the videos to the television for the ISO and VOB's

Thanks for the help though I thought I was nuts.
 
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