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OK, I believe I figured out what's going on after I looked into what Plex does. Based on their .xml profile for the Xbox 360, they transcode everything to an ASF container with WMV2 as the video codec. Perhaps this is the only format that the Xbox 360 supports for DLNA streaming (local files via USB ...

or is it possible UMS is basically checking the source file, seeing that the video and audio streams are supported by the client (in this case the Xbox 360) and saying "ok, streams are compatible. let's just stream this without transcoding". Problem is, it's not the incompatibility of the video ...

To make the bitrate fairly low to test this, you can go to the Transcoding Settings tab and change the MPEG-2 transcoding quality to "Automatic (Wireless)", then go to the General Configuration tab and change the "Maximum bandwidth" to 10-20.

It' s funny you mention that, because I actually had ...

I have spent the better part of the weekend trying to stream a large source video file from my PC to my Xbox 360 over my LAN without success. First an introduction to the variables, many of which I tried more than one solution which largely rules out it being the culprit to my problem.

+ PC as the ...