#CONNECT360 FOR MAC SOFTWARE#

Nullriver’s products are developed to be dead simple to use (their slogan is “Intuitive Software, Intuitive Design”), so it’s perhaps understandable that they’d restrict support to an online FAQ and an e-mail form, but it’s often helpful to be able to communicate with other users to trade information, and Nullriver doesn’t have any visible support forum.

#CONNECT360 FOR MAC SOFTWARE#

I tried restarting the Connect 360 software to no avail (Nullriver support said that should have worked). I discovered that if the Mac goes to sleep while it’s connected to the Xbox 360, the Xbox 360 has a difficult time re-establishing a connection until the Mac is restarted. One option in particular-“Disable system sleep while Connect360 is active”-seems to be particularly important. A button in Connect360 links you to a Microsoft support page that explains what video modes the Xbox 360 supports. As FairPlay-encrypted content is off limits, it’s entirely up to you as to how good things look, because you’ll end up using tools like Handbrake, Techspansion’s VisualHub or Roxio’s Crunch to prepare it for playback.Ĭontent that you may have optimized for playback on an iPod is going to look grainy, but anything made for optimal playback on an Apple TV or using an Apple TV preset will look fantastic even on big televisions. The quality of video streamed to the Xbox 360 is excellent of course, that entirely depends on how it’s ripped on your Mac. Attempting to play a protected audio or video track will pop up a message on the Xbox 360 that that file format isn’t supported. Connect360 works with quite a few different audio and video formats (including WMV if you have Flip4Mac installed), but content encrypted with FairPlay Digital Rights Management (DRM) software is strictly verboten.

Connect360 for mac