HI there.

First post here, and its a doozy!

Playback of MP4 files on the xbox 360 - Is this possible to play them back from a DVD-R? Like, i have several that are bigger than 4gb, but i was just wondering whether the xbox could read them straight from dvd, or would these have to be split up so each part was less than 4gb like as if i was playing them from an external hard drive?

Im just curious before i have to break up my mp4 files into several bits?

I have done searches on here, and on google (its my friend), but all the results keep coming back of playing mp4's from a hard drive, or streaming them.

Thanks for reading, hopefully someone can help me here

Harry

Just as long as they fit on a dvd5 disc (4.7gigs) you should be fine. The reason 4 gig videos wont work on a fat32 is because it simply doesn't support 4 gig videos, they won't even write to the drive. In all reality yeah you should be fine I would think. However I have not had very good luck with playing .mp4 on the 360.

Cheers for getting back to me.

thats superb then.

Ill no doubt try it out with 1 movie and see how well it plays back.

MP4 files greater than 4Gb DO NOT work, no matter where they are. Doesn't matter if they are on a disc or a network share or even a hdd attached to the 360 and formatted in HFS+.....

It is a limitation set by MS just like the files must be stereo aac and not 5.1.

They want us to use WMV which doesn't have any of these restrictions when placed in the appropriate place.

I guess you use Windows Mediaplayer 11 to stream the files yeah? The program can't find .mp4 files, so try and rename them to .avi - that works for me

Or heres a link to the registry patch for mp4 in wmp11

http://homepage.eircom.net/~rock2002/Blog/...MP4-M4V-M4A.reg 32bit

http://homepage.eircom.net/~rock2002/Blog/...M4V-M4A-x64.reg 64bit