Gizmodo: Xbox 360 DivX/XviD Playback Tested Options

[Xbox-Scene]

Gizmodo: Xbox 360 DivX/XviD Playback Tested Posted by XanTium | December 4 15:15 EST | News Category: Xbox360

From gizmodo.com: [QUOTE] The Xbox 360 supports DivX and XviD as of today, which may make some of you with big file collections (like us) as giddy as a kid in store with puppies made of candy. We threw our entire collection of movies, TV shows and random clips at it and found that the 360 can play back pretty much anything. Here are some notes. You can play files off of a CD/DVD. This feature wasn't listed on the Xbox Team's website as one of the supported locations for playing back content, but this is fantastic for homes that have wireless networks (or no network at all). In fact, reading off a disc is probably the best way to ensure your movie won't cut out in the middle due to network congestion (unlikely) or someone turning off the computer accidentally (fairly likely). It supports almost all files. It played back all TV shows we threw at it, including My Name is Earl, 30 Rock, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Battlestar Galactica, and The Venture Bros.. Most of these, and most TV downloaded TV shows, are encoded in XviD format. As for DivX, that's supported back to version 5.0. AC3 Audio is supported. Nice! AC3 support was added in the Spring Update, but it's nice to see it working with DivX/XviD. 5.1 is supported! It's not entirely perfect. It's 90% of the way there, improved handling of different video dimensions, better playback controls and Windows Media Center Extender support will make this the perfect DivX/Xvid implementation. [/QUOTE] Full Story: gizmodo.com

[DMAddict]

better playback controls and Windows Media Center Extender support will make this the perfect DivX/Xvid implementation.

This is really what's needed. Seems kinda dumb that they didn't add it.

[tecatekxf]

The only prob i have is i cant get it to work off a disk,Is there a certain way you have to write them?I do mine as data disk,But other than that works really good.

[Wattafax]

How about x264? Does that work?

[LiGhTfasT]

Works perfectly for me with eveything i've thrown at it

well chuffed no more transcoding finally!!

Best update yet by far

[DarkForce]

I've just tested it with my some old dvd-r's (UDF format) with a couple of avi's(DIvX) that I wrote for XBMC on my xbox, works perfectly, very impressed and very happy! Next step : dump all 50 multifilm-dvd's onto a USB external HD!

[stezo2k]

seriously cool update, cant wait to watch some movies through this

great thing is that it upscales the images too

makes me wonder if this'll play high res/def xvid/divx files

This post has been edited by stezo2k: Dec 4 2007, 10:07 PM

[Willtur]

As I look at my banned xbox360 I cross my fingers and hope they release the update for download like they did their others.

[pash]

AC3 Audio is supported. Nice! AC3 support was added in the Spring Update, but it's nice to see it working with DivX/XviD. 5.1 is supported!

What? I thought there is only stereo supported in divx/xvid?

Can any other source confirm 5.1?

Maybe I mix that up with h264?

So there is no easy mkv encoding with 5.1...

This post has been edited by pash: Dec 4 2007, 10:10 PM

[SilverDragon]

As I look at my banned xbox360 I cross my fingers and hope they release the update for download like they did their others.

just plug in a HD from an upgraded unit and boot up with it? through I don't think will be able to get xvid to work, due to needing the optional media support download to play them back, which is console serial linked.

[Base8]

I can't wait, although I am for a while until a live log post-update.

Too bad no x264, but this is the best update ever for the 360.

[Gouki]

What strikes me ass odd is that I've attached a network HDD
and while it appears as another computer in the network while
browsing from the 360, I can only enter the first level of
subdirectories! No further..

So I navigate to the "Videos" subdir from which I would normally
select "anime" and then "One Piece" for example. The "Videos"
in the root of the drive shows up but when entering that dir I get
a "No Videos found" message from the 360..
Same with pictures and music by the way..

Any idea what I'm doing wrong or if this is just a limitation on
the 360's part?

Kind regards, Gouki

[DMAddict]

As I look at my banned xbox360 I cross my fingers and hope they release the update for download like they did their others.

Check the post here http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?sho...32400&st=90
by ivc. This seems to work.

[GamerBR]

What about subtitles?Are them supported?

[jamiem1987]

i posted earlier in the update thread in the xbox 360 general forum and when playing divxs the screen blanks out and only the sound plays. what the problem is with my wierd no picture but sound on my divx files playback is im using the vga cable at the resolution of 1360x768 on a samsung 32 lcd and when i play a divx the picture blanks out and switches the resolution to 640x480 and theres no picture and basically the console locks up, if i change the resolution down to 640x480 then the divx plays fine no problems, its also works fine when i use component cables, can anyone else emulate this bug?

Many thanks