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TVersity offers WMV Xbox 360 transcoding

A company by the name of TVersity debuted today on the fly WMV transcoding for the Xbox 360 through their TVersity media server software. This application, according to notes on the company's Web site, is free and specifically does the following:

- On the fly transcoding to WMV for the Xbox 360
- Xbox 360 users can now play their entire media library with no need for MCE.
- Users of other devices that can play WMV can use this target format as an alternative to MPEG. While this will require faster machines to achieve the same quality, it allow for a higher quality per bitrate meaning that a slower home network can be used. This is important mainly for HD content streamed over wireless connections.
- Upconversion of videos to WMV HD can be done (on a fast machine) by tweaking the minVideoInfo in config.xml.
- It is highly recommended to upgrade to Windows Media Player 11 as it includes more recent and more stable encoders, this is especially important if you experience crashes in qasf.dll.