Playing movie files on 360 without Media Center

[Flompy]

I'm sure most of us don't have media center PC's, god I'd love one but I just plain don't, unfortunatly. However, for those of us using XP pro or home there WILL be a program soon enough to get this to work, surely? What I'm asking anybody in the know out there is:

1) Is it is possible?

and

2) Is it likely?

Cheers

[EvilBoris]

I imagine it will happen at some point, I'm kinda suprised it hasn't happened with media centre extenders, but more hackers will turn their attention to the 360.

[sj33]

Don't think you can playback any of the codecs people actually use anywa can you?

[EvilBoris]

You can't, but still it'd be a nice feature if someone can do even just the standard things

[Pirotic]

The thing is, the whole 'media extender' thing is bollocks, it just spools files down the network to your xbox 360 - the media extender could very easily be used for playing videos on the 360, but as MS want to sell the "Media Centre" operating system they disabled it.. shame

[Rossco]

Yeah, it wouldnt be a very hard thing to do I'm guessing, so something should come along soon enough.

I cant believe I lost my Media Center CDs too!!!