Streaming VIDEO_TS to Xbox 360?

[aiken]

I am finally embarking on my project to back up my DVD's (about 600 of them!) to hard disk. I am planning on keeping them in native DVD filesystem format (VIDEO_TS, etc) so I effectively have a master copy.

However, I'd love to be able to watch my backups via the 360 rather than digging through binders to find the original. Is there any easy way to do this? I realize I could bulk transcode, but 1) I'd like to keep the menus, special features, etc, and 2) we're talking about some serious disk space.

I'm really hoping for something that can just look at a large directory of DVD images and just work, without manual transcoding or title entry or whatnot on a per-movie basis.

Any ideas?

Thanks
-b

[Ronin-7]

It is possible in a fashion but there are limitations,:

* Plays only through the Windows Media Centre extender UI on the Xbox 360.
* Main movie only.
* Must have AC3 6ch 5.1 stream in DVD, wont get audio with only 2ch AC3 present on DVD regardless if you are down mixing to stereo (not 100% certain on that).
* Must be in a single file no split parts.
* Chapters are not supported though you can skip backwards & forwards, no subtitles either.

The easiest way to go about this I found was to use AnyDVD with DVD Decrypter.

Open the Tools->Settings in DVD Decrypter and under the IFO mode tab find the file spitting section & select none from the drop down box.

Now select the main movie in DVD Decrypter and & rip the DVD to the HD once it's done rename the movie.vob to movie.mpg and it will play through the Windows Media Centre extender when placed in a monitored folder.

You can also use My Movies (http://www.mymovies.name/) as a plugin for Windows Media Centre that will give you a UI for browsing movies that is also accessible through the Xbox 360 extender.

That's about it as far as I know you cannot use the built in Xbox 360 dashboard UI to playback anything other than WMV.

[HyperHacker]

You might be able to open the file in VLC, and have it act as a streaming server. Can X360 view streaming video?