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Its been brought to my attention by acateoN that the latest version of TVersity now supports on-the-fly WMV transcoding. Xbox360 owners can now enjoy their entire media library with no need for MCE!

What else is new?

• 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.

Download: TVersity v0.9.9.1

- source: TVersity

This news was posted a few days ago on Team underdOg’s site —

Fasten your seatbelts because we are ready to launch the incredible NME v1.2 Modchip in a few days. The most important spec is that it’s just one chip for all drives now supporting ALL Samsung and ALL Hitachi drives, even the new 78 ones. We found that there are some different Hitachi 78 drives in the market and so it took a lot of work and time to implement them all.

The new features are:

• one chip for all drives
• optional disables the wireless network usb adapter
• optional enables network when playing linkgames
• new improved and very stable media detection
• now working with pioneer 111d and hitachi drives flawlessly
• 100% Firmware Stealth, when MS tries to read the Firmware then it replies as 100% original unmodified

Great news for Hitachi v78 owners!

And in other news from Team underdOg is a fresh version of their “NME aSSociat0r.” You can fetch that here.

- source: NME-360

uneasysilence.com is running an interesting article on how to hack the Xbox 360′s HD-DVD drive to function under Windows XP SP2. Essentially all you require is the appropriate drivers and some HD-DVD supported software (i.e. WinDVD 8)

The same day the XBOX360 HD-DVDROM Addon was released to the public in USA, we at blueprint figured out how to use it in windows, now as of this moment, officially, the movie that came with the hardware “King Kong” is currently a Dual Layer (30GB) disc so it would appear the studios are aiming for that size minimally for the majority of movies to start off with at least, this of course means you will not be directly copying any hd-dvd’s as of yet. However, the most important thing is were now able to read the UDF (Universal Disc Filesystem) v2.5 which is currently used by the Toshiba Corp with there first generation HD-DVDRom drives. You can see the entire contents of the HD-DVD Media when in the drive. You can see the Label of the movie title next to the drive letter, you can copy the entire contents of the disc to your hdd, we have thus far only tested this in windows explorer, were anxious to hear about how folks take things from here, better methods of ripping the movies will come in the future, were also looking at the drives since there toshiba/samsung to possibly rip games in the future, of course thats not something were personally working on, but were pretty damn sure it will be possible. in any event, onto the direction’s for installation/recongizing your drives contents in windows xp sp2.

Download: Xbox360 HD-DVD WinXP SP2 Drivers

Backup an entire Xbox or Xbox360 disc with the single click of a button, all thanks to Schtrom’s latest Schtrom360Xtract tool.

v1.3 changelog:

• sector mapping implemented for XBOX1
• xtreme v4.0 and later new unlock command supported for ms28
• support for SH-D163A
• show SH-D162C and SH-D163A only if the drive responds to the get drive feature cdb
• check for disc in drive on extraction
• the region code of an image or game.iso can be checked
• extract files from an image file with the new XDVDFS XTR tool -> thanks for the inspiring source to Team PI Coder

Download: Schtrom360Xtract v3.1

- source: Xboxhacker