Xbox 360 Macbook Air

Xbox 360 controller. Plenty of folks still claim the aging wired Xbox 360 controller is still the best gamepad for the PC, and as far as I’m concerned, that remains true for the Mac as well. Reasons: Macbook Air/Pro: Use it in School instead of carrying a load of books Use it when I don't feel like being in the basement to CPU game Use it in my room when I want to relax and surf the net or watch movies Xbox/PS3 I already have a gaming CPU Almost no one in high school is a PC gaming fanboy, like me.

• Macbook Xbox Controller
• Xbox App For Macbook Pro

AirPlay is certainly a very popular feature and pushing photos and videos everywhere around your house is many people’s dream. In my case, I have my house full of XBOX 360 units connected as Windows Media Center (Windows 7) extenders to access live and recorded TV. They work quite well and it is probably one of the easiest way to stream live/recorded video if you don’t want to deal with multiple DVR units (and own a bunch of XBOX 360 – can get them on eBay for under $75 even with the DVD unit broken)

What if you want to use AirPlay and control your XBOX 360 with your iPhone? Thanks to Thomas Pleasance there is now a simple way to do so. There is a catch though: It won’t work directly to your XBOX, instead you’ll have to use it as an extender. Fortunately, this works perfectly with my setup and I’ll briefly describe how to do it:

Step 0: Make sure you are running Windows 7 on the server and you registered your XBOX 360 as an extender

Step 1: Install Bonjour print Services for Windows from Apple’s website.

Step 2: Download and install AirPlay Client for Windows Media Center (currently in Beta 1 and free)

Step 3: First time you start Media Center, a pop-up might prompt you to set the firewall to enable the AirPlay traffic. Do so!

Step 4: You might also need to install .NET 3.5

Step 5: XBOX 360 should be connected as an extender to the Media Center Server

For AirPlay to work properly, you’ll need your iPhone on the same network as your Windows Media Center server. Be sure it is connected to your own WiFi access point.

If you configured everything properly, you’ll be able to launch the Photo / YouTube app on the iPhone and push the video or pictures on the big screen.

Once you click the AirPlay button, you’ll be prompted to choose the destination to push the media to. All AirPlay enabled devices should be displayed. In my case, the main WMC computer is SERVER2, the first XBOX 360 extender is SERVER2(1), etc.

Now that everything works well, you’ll notice that not all the applications on the iPhone will support AirPlay (or have the option enabled). YouTube and the Photo are enabled by default, but if you want to extend the AirPlay capability to other apps you’ll have to download a certain app from Cydia (requires a jailbroken device).

The application is called AirVideoEnabler, is free and in order to download it from Cydia you may need to add the following repository into Cydia:

http://cydia.myrepospace.com/cyd1a/

or

http:/cydia.zone-mr.net

Note: Some apps still won’t work even while using AirVideoEnabler – Netflix and Hulu Plus are not compatible at this time.

This is a step by step Tutorial on how to Play video files on Xbox 360 from your Apple Mac computer. How to play files on Xbox 360 on Mac - The $35.00 way that is as easy as pie:

Here Is What You Will Need:

• Xbox 360 - Preferably the Elite version… just cause its black. And has black controllers.
• Apple Computer - iMac, MacBook Pro, Apple Air, etc.
• Video Converter for Mac Only $35.00 - Has a Free Trial!

How to play any video file on your Xbox 360 with your Mac:

1Convert videos to MP4 format that compatible with Xbox 360.

Choose a small video to test for you first video, as encoding and conversion times can be lengthy if you choose a full movie. Try downloading a trailer for a movie in your favorite format that the Xbox 360 can't read. Like: AVI, MOV, and a lot of other weird formats.

Install and open up Video Converter for Mac. Video Converter for Mac is a phenomenal video conversion tool, it can convert video formats from one to another with perfect output quality and high conversion speed for Mac OS X users. It supports all popular video formats including MP4, M4V, flv, AVI, MOV, MPEG1/MPEG2, 3GP, 3G2, M2TS, MPEG TS/TP (for HD Video), etc.

In the format list, choose MP4 as the output video format. You can choose Xbox 360 as the output format.

At the bottom right, click on the 'Converter' button. Then wait… once you get the delightful 'ding' then you are ready to go to test to see if it worked.

2connect your Mac and Xbox 360

Before you start configuring, open up Terminal (in Applications -> Utilities) and type 'ifconfig en0' (zero, not a capital-o). You're looking for the bit that says 'inet xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx'. Second, note down the IP address of your wireless router.

On your Mac

1. Connect your Mac to your wireless Internet connection
2. Connect your Xbox 360 to your Mac via Ethernet
3. In System Preferences, choose Sharing, enable your Internet Sharing between your Airport and Ethernet connection

On your Xbox 360

1. Start up your Xbox and navigate to the Network settings menu
2. Under IP address, enter the number you got from the 'ifconfig en0' command earlier on, but with the final number one place higher.
3. Input subnet.
4. Under router/gateway, enter the number you got earlier from the 'ifconfig en0' command.
5. Move onto DNS. Enter the IP address of your wireless router in both the primary and secondary IP address fields
6. Leave PPPoE and Advanced settings blank (i.e. OFF and Automatic)
7. You should now be able to connect to Xbox Live via your Internet sharing Mac

Macbook Xbox Controller

3Play Video File on Xbox 360:

First, on your Mac, open up your new file in VLC and in Quicktime. Make sure it can play in both (Not necessarily at the same time). If you have done that, now it is time to move to your 360. Follow these instructions:

Tun on your Xbox 360

Navigate over to the 'Media Tab', and select the 'Videos' option.

IMPORTANT! Since the Xbox 360 Dashboard update of about 6 months ago, once you click on'Videos' it will just show you all of the videos on your Xbox 360 hard drive. So press 'X' to change the current source. Then browse down to your Apple / Mac computer. Mine is an iMac.

Xbox App For Macbook Pro

Click on the 'Movies Folder'. That is where you should have saved the file there earlier.

Now browse through your video files and select your sweet, newly converted video file, and play it!

Watch and Enjoy! Nothing like watching the TMNT trailer in all of its Hi-Definition glory!

You're Done! You did it! Now you can follow that same process when play any video from Mac to Xbox 360 .

Xbox 360 Macbook Air