Oh XBox 360, how do I love the! Let me count thy ways … but watching downloaded movies is not one of them.

With the recent fall update for the XBox 360, Microsoft has opened you its Media Client to allow it to connect to third-party UPnP Media Servers. Which is awesome, except for the fact that the XBox 360 only supports WMV (and MPEG) encoded movies. I mean seriously, no “person” voluntarily uses your media formats Microsoft. And with the 360’s horsepower, there shouldn’t be a problem here to decode these things in software. What’s a gamer to do?

Thankfully a group, with a little piece of software called TVersity, recently added transcoding capabilities and support for the XBox 360 Media Client to allow for transcoded videos to be streamed to the XBox 360 on demand. As the little man rejoices and struggles to get it all to work, I write a guide on what I needed to do to unlock this desirable capability.
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