Vcd & Svcd Options

[Evolisxl]

Guys N Gals

Is it possible to play my SVCD's through XBmedia player ??

If so how, I can't seem to get any movies to play

Please help

[kaylapuppy]

They don't seem to play directly off the cd in the xbox drive, even if the drive can read it with no problems.
Relax works well to stream right from your pc cd drive. Or you could use the Samba support with the newer versions, but I haven't tried it that way yet.

Regards,
KP

[feflicker]

If you can get the disc to read, you can open the dat files directly... Annoying, but they play

[akarnid]

I just store those big SVCD rips on the Xbox HDD or on a smb shared HD and use multi file stacking to splice it into a single movie. VCD/SVCD hasn't really been implemented totally. I'm sure the news will be all over the shop when they do get it to work properly.

[Evolisxl]

Thanks guys. Hope this is resolved soon. It will add yet another dimension to the XBOX
abilities

[personano58]

QUOTE (feflicker @ Jan 29 2003, 05:17 AM)

If you can get the disc to read, you can open the dat files directly... Annoying, but they play

[QUOTE] OK could you tell me how with a real step by step please i hardly navigate into the menus and my chip+hdd swap has just been done and i'm afraid of doing something i should not i'm just beginning to understand the functions of my evox! ok i open the dvd tray put the svcd in close the tray and ???????????????? step by step PLEAAAAAASE!

[personano58]

it looks harder lately to get an answer i've been posting the same question over an over again in every situation the subject was talked about and with no results How can i play svcd direct from the disc ( don't want to store delete too many large files like films just to watch it once than delete cause the hdd gets fragmented like any other pc hdd and gets slower and slower and there's no defrag apps right now for an xbox hdd, do what you want with your hdd but it's a fact that it does slow it down using it to watch a movie than delete than put another one than delete.....) So that's why i insist about playing the movie from the disc like any other standalone dvd player... Now i've been trying a lot by myself and when i go into iso 9660 (xbmp 2.0) i can see some folders as i see when used in my pc (ext, mpeg2, segment, svcd ) and when i go into mpeg2 i can see the name of the mpeg file with the name i gave to it (what i would clic twice on to make it start on my pc) and when i press "a" on my controller it says:preparing your movie please wait cached 0% of file (which only appears for 1 second ) then the message disappear and nothing else happens!!!! Now i shouldn't be to far from being able to see the movie so please if somebody knows why it doesn't play let me know, beeing able to do that is one of the major reason i moded my xbox

[ybu]

Looks like they fix it!!!

From their website:

QUOTE

Mode2 support I just checked in code to read Mode2 sectors from a cd.  This means that you can now watch (S)VCD movies directly from cd. You need to play the (S)VCD through the iso9660: interface. Build from CVS, give it a try.

[BenJeremy]

I can confirm. I was able to play a couple of SVCDs last night with the latest build on my Samsung-equipped v1.1 Xbox using non-cached ISO9660 playback.


Now if they could just 'fix' the interface!!

[crackz0r]

worked for me too, some (S)VCD autoplay support would be nice though..

[kaylapuppy]

WHat version are you guys running. I am at feb 3, and it won't play them. I tried the feb 4 version and it locks up when xbmp is loading.

Regards,
KP

[personano58]

sorry i'm no expert... so i have to get the new build? is it something i download and add to the xbpm so it can play the svcd directly? And by the way kaylapuppy what is that feb 3 feb 4 you're talking about? never herd of that!!!

[kaylapuppy]

These are the CVS unofficial releases. They are put out almost on a daily basis lately. The file would look something like this.

xbmp2_cvs_compile_xbins_2-4-03

This is where the date come from.

Regards,
KP

[personano58]

finally getting somewhere... ok so it's something i download, right? and add on the box where do i find these things? how do i install and everything! could there be a kind of tutorial about that or somebody coming out with the full info cause right now info is coming out bit by bit !!! common i'm not the only one having xbmp of any version and that wants to be able to watch movies from the disc and there's probably thousands right now that can't and i think it's a major issue cause lots of people like me wants to use xbox as the central home entertainment equipment and vcd and svcd is a big issue for all the people who maybe can't afford a dvd writer