How to watch Films from your External Hard drive through your Xbox?

I was talking to a mate at footy last night and he said about how he downloads films to his external hard drive and then watches the films through his Xbox. I wont see him for two weeks and I am wondering how to do this.

I have put my USB from my external hard drive into my Xbox however it doesnt seem as though it recognises its been put into the console.

Help please

Edit, I cant link up my pc through the media centre as my Windows is a copy and not valid.

[PTR]

You CAN link your PC to your XBox though.

Don't use the Media Player link, use the "Shared Videos" option - share the HDD and it works fine. That's how mine is set up for now - but I'm about to have a play with TVersity as I want to watch MKV High Def movies.

[Soz Marra]

You could use Vuze (the torrent app) to share with the 360, as it is a fully functional UPnP media server.

Also Windows Media Player 11 has File Sharing built in. (If it's failing the genuine advantage check - there's plenty of ways to bypass it - I think you can even extract the install.exe with winrar to get to the proper setup file that doesn't include WGA).

For some reason the 360 doesn't support NTFS (despite being an MS file system), so your external HDD would need to be in FAT32 for it to work. Providing your videos are WMV or DivX/XviD it should work fine (you may need to download a small update if its the first time you're viewing a DivX file on your 360).

[Spot]

Originally Posted by PTR

You CAN link your PC to your XBox though.

Don't use the Media Player link, use the "Shared Videos" option - share the HDD and it works fine. That's how mine is set up for now - but I'm about to have a play with TVersity as I want to watch MKV High Def movies.

jeez you learn quick

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=429211

Originally Posted by PTR

You CAN link your PC to your XBox though.

Don't use the Media Player link, use the "Shared Videos" option - share the HDD and it works fine. That's how mine is set up for now - but I'm about to have a play with TVersity as I want to watch MKV High Def movies.

Cheers

Originally Posted by Soz Marra

You could use Vuze (the torrent app) to share with the 360, as it is a fully functional UPnP media server.

Also Windows Media Player 11 has File Sharing built in. (If it's failing the genuine advantage check - there's plenty of ways to bypass it - I think you can even extract the install.exe with winrar to get to the proper setup file that doesn't include WGA).

For some reason the 360 doesn't support NTFS (despite being an MS file system), so your external HDD would need to be in FAT32 for it to work. Providing your videos are WMV or DivX/XviD it should work fine (you may need to download a small update if its the first time you're viewing a DivX file on your 360).

Cheers

[Hawkings Boots]

If you want to use your portable hard drive it must be FAT32 formatted

[PTR]

Originally Posted by Spot

jeez you learn quick

http://www.readytogo.net/smb/showthread.php?t=429211

Yip.

Got it working, so fairly confident

Originally Posted by Hawkings Boots

If you want to use your portable hard drive it must be FAT32 formatted

Cheers.

I have got it working now, it just means having to wait about 15 days for the damned utd bluray to download!

[Sima]

Is the file over 4GB?

If so, it won't go on a FAT32 drive. You need to format it to HFS+ to accommodate files over 4GB

Use MacDrive