Media Center & Playing Music on a Modded Xbox

Video Transcript

"DUSTIN STAAT: Now, what we're doing is we just installed and turned it to a dashboard. I've already got it open, so I'm going to teach you how to use this a little bit, and I'm going to show you the full extent of the features that this comes with, so let's check it out. Your Xbox should load up to this menu. Now keep in mind, if you've loaded everything correctly, and you have your Xbox correctly connected to your internet server, you'll see this. That always means you're connected. Okay, now, one of the features is your Music Player. Right now, you see a list of options, all of which I will show on a future video, but right now we're just going to stick to the basics. So what you can do is you go ahead, load up music, play it directly from here, or you can stream your music from a computer directly to your Xbox, saving you space on the Xbox, which is what I'm going to be going ahead and show you in a segment or two. Also, you can load the pictures and view them from your Xbox Media Center, which you could not do with your prior operating system. Same with videos, now you can load your DVDs, movies, and basically any format on the internet and watch them directly off your Xbox, just like you're watching a DVD. One of the cooler features is your movie trailers. Go ahead and click on it and we'll take a look. Let's go ahead and check out your trailers. That's going to load up some code and, originally, when you start up, it's going to update your movies. I'm going to go ahead and update all of them now. This will take a while. What it's, basically, doing is taking all the movie trailers from the Quicktime menu off the Apple website and it's loading them up in your Xbox. This will take a while because it's a lot of movie information to load. It'll probably take five to ten minutes. Go ahead and let it load up. After you see an icon here, you'll know that's all loaded up correctly. So first, we'll go ahead and just go through like some of the options you have using the Apple movie trailers player. Go to their "Newest" which we have opened here. That's all the newest movie trailers, the Apple movies offers right now. We've got "Exclusives" which they only offer, which is pretty cool, or you can search by the genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Documentary, Drama, etc., etc. We'll go ahead. We're going to back to our "Newest." Go down the movie that we want to see a preview for such as "Ironman." Click on it and you'll see it starts to cache the movie. This should only take a couple of seconds to a minute and it just started playing. Let's wait and see. We'll go and open 88 minutes. After it caches, it'll start playing right away at DVD quality. This is streaming directly from the website so it doesn't take up anymore space on your Xbox, all right. If you want, grab it. Go on press your red B button. You probably won't watch these though. Let's go back to our menu. Click the "Back" button. Watch our next segment, which is part two of using your Xbox Media Center."