Playing DivX and Xvid content on Xbox 360 – An easy guide! Options

[Xbox-Scene]

Playing DivX and Xvid content on Xbox 360 – An easy guide! Posted by XanTium | December 6 00:59 EST

From tweaktown.com: [QUOTE] Last month a group of software folks at TVersity who know a thing or two about this subject managed to make the whole experience much easier and pleasant with their latest version of TVersity. They have a piece of software (and it's completely FREE!) that is able to on-the-fly transcode many video and audio formats into WMV format suitable for the Xbox 360. As it is playing in WMV format from your PC over the network, you are not modifying the console software or hardware and using legal software, therefore your warranty with Microsoft will be fine. Essentially, TVersity is able to trick the console into thinking the source format is WMV (or one of the formats supported by the 360) by using transcoding. If you use Digital Media Servers which are able to stream content in a similar fashion to the Xbox 360, TVersity will also work just fine. As long as your device uses the UPnP AV / DLNA standard (which is the de-facto standard for connectivity between devices in the digital home), you won't be limited to whatever your DMS supports. Over the following pages we'll provide a simple step by step guide on playing DivX and Xvid movies and a bunch of other video and audio formats on your Xbox 360 console. Let's get started! [/QUOTE] Read the whole guide on tweaktown.com (8 pages).

[cerealkillajme]

Awesome

[shanoo]

anyone know if this is better than transcode360?

[Akoto]

im getting error streaming videos from TVersity server on my x360. MCE with HDTVPump playing TS HDTV Video Files still roks. Transcode360 works fine too except stream HD content......

This post has been edited by Akoto: Dec 6 2006, 07:00 AM

[MaxP]

how is this front page news ?

this software dosnt add any more functionality that dosnt allready exsist.
.TS files play nativly after installing a single codec.
Transcode and VLC360 have both been streaming Divx/Xvid and many other formats for a long long time now.

what exactly does this software do that transcode and VLC360 does not ?
do XBS have shares in the company of something ?

its like a big song and dance becasue someone just invented a horseless carage that runs on fossile fuel.

[kesava108]

what exactly does this software do that transcode and VLC360 does not ?
do XBS have shares in the company of something ?

i think its cause u dont need MCE to run it.

However, i beleive transcode is superior cause it transcodes to mpeg2 rather than wmv which takes less resources

[xboxSlayer]

Well if you actually tried to install the software you would find there there was no easy installation guide for the program. So this is good news for people for people having trouble trying to get the program to work.

Xbox-Scene reports on a lot of things that are relevant to the xbox. I like coming here and reading about what's new especially things on the xbox360. If I see a story that doesn't interest me I skip it, I don't go posting useless junk just to get attention.

Anyway, I was glad to hear this. I haven't had any luck getting any of these transcoding programs to work. I'll try this guide and see if I can get it to work.

[freddyc]

Hello.

I got this to work, but i don`t get any sounds when a stream divX videos...



Why??

[freddyc]

I dont get sound from HD-Divx AVI, but if i convert to WMV i get sound.


HMMMM....

[xboxSlayer]

Can you get any other videos to work? Do you have the divx codec installed? Might need to give more information.

[freddyc]

Yes. Everything works.
I can play ragular AVI files, and get sound.

But AVI files in HD-XVID i only get picture, but no sound. i don`t know why.

You know what i maybe need to do?


One more thing. Can i stream Subtitles to my 360 ?

[quarky42]

TVersity works great once you have installed the extra codecs that it needs. (check TVersity's download page)

I applaud TVersity for getting formats working on the 360 that should have worked straight from the factory. Microshaft was hyping how their box is a multimedia giant, and really it can barely play anything by itself... it needed the help of a special version of windows in order to work. Now Microshaft allowed the streaming of WMV content which is a step in the right direction and it allowed the fine TVersity folks to figure out how to stream transcoded content from a normal XP machine.

In fact TVersity is one of the only transcoders that supports Windows XP x64 bit edition and works without crashing. I have a x64 server with a ton of storage. I'm streaming movies of various formats, music, and pictures now very happily. I still think Microsoft screwed up and should have included better video/audio support for something they were saying was a multimedia machine... "multi" means many media... not one or two formats from one specific type of server.

I don't like using Macs myself, but I see why people do. I don't think they should be left out in the cold just because they don't pay homage to the almighty microshaft. People with versions of windows other than the multimedia edition should get love too.

I saw subtitle support in one of the programs/codecs that you install from the TVersity download page... make sure you have all those installed (ffdshow or something like that) In one of those programs you can configure subtitle support.

[HansiHusten]

Well got no time yet to read the article, but i hope it will explain how it runs 100% on W2003 Server... would be great..

[gaming fanboy]

anyone know if this is better than transcode360?

it is, my brother did this stuff, but for some reason the xbox sont see my computer

[Habs69M]

well the setup works fine but all i get when selecting a avi movie is this error...

Code d'état: 69-04-80072746 and TVersity stops sharing and the icon comes pink