media help

[fralithon]

Hi guys
just wondering if anyone here can tell me the pros and cons of using orb or tversity. i'm looking to stream sites like youtube and do basic music streaming.
any suggestions would be great!
thanks!
p.s. do you have to download codecs for tversity or orb?
THX AGAIN!

 

[naiku]

tversity works decent with sd content. With 720p & 1080p content tversity was lagging on me.

I kept getting constant buffering due to the re-encoding that needs to be done. Maybe my machine is a little to slow for that(p4 2.4ghz) but I found if you have a spare external hdd, reformat as fat32 and toss all your xvid media & h264 videos on there, it works fantastic.

 

[fralithon]

is the xbox encoder program that is out there take extra harddrive space when it encodes? is that a easier solution than using tversity or orb?
thanks again!