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I hope this is the right thread.

I'm trying to figure out an easy way to do this. Maybe you guys have done it?

I want to be able to stream my blu ray discs from my desktop to my Xbox 360. I know this can be done by ripping the discs to a supported format but that isn't what I want to do. I was thinking this could be possible in a program like VLC but I think it only supports streaming files and not discs.

I was also wondering if there is any way to stream Ultraviolet Digital Copies to Xbox 360. I read that there was just recently a way to do it since Paramount realeased an app for it but apparently it does not support files you already own. Has anyone tried it? If that doesn't work then is there a way to stream them from say Flixster on your computer to your Xbox?

Sometimes I miss my PS3..lol.. If anyone knows a way to work either method that would be appreciated. Thanks!

I'm not sure Xbox can adequately play those types of files. You can always find high quality torrents of the films you want and stream them once they finish downloading, of course.

Last time I downloaded a blu-ray movie and played it on the Xbox it was all pixely, but played fine on my computer.

Yeah there's always torrents, but I'm trying to avoid those. Our ISP just recently put a limit on all their plans at 50gb a month and downloading that many blu ray quality videos would take us well over the limit.

What I ended up doing was just ripping the videos and re-encoding them as 1080p h.264 mkv files and throwing them on an external drive plugged into the Xbox. They're in full quality so all is good.

oh and I guess this thread should be moved to the help forum since we have one now?

Ah! Very good. I was going to suggest ripping them, but I tried to steer away from that since you said.