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- Rickler, on 10/12/2007, -15/+33XviD > DivX
- sinembarg0, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9@xian
Are you retarded? We're talking about streaming content to the Xbox 360 here. That content has to be in WMV format when it gets to the 360, so in order to play h.264 or Xvid or DivX, that content has to be transcoded on-the-fly to WMV so the 360 can play it. The parent is right, you would need a pretty dman powerful machine to be able to transcode 1080p content on-the-fly.
@jblade
No, the Xbox 1 (the aforementioned "Xbox 180") does not have the necessary hardware capabilities to play h.264 encoded video. It's only a 700 or 733MHz Pentium 3. It's amazing that it can do any video in high definition. I have a P3 laptop 1.13GHz with 640MB RAM and a fresh install of XP with only codecs for Xvid installed and it struggles to play 640x480 smoothly. h.264 is even more compressed than Xvid, and it can't play h.264 at all. Xbox 360 could handle 1080p h.264 no problem. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9What was that video game console Apple released a few years back? >:D
- cliffzdude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6I have this working. TVersity is free, the trans coding patch is very beta, almost alpha right now. More functionality to come.
I use TVersity to stream music to my XBox 360, it does so flawlessly. Its processor hungry, but what do you expect, trans coding from divx to wmv can take a long damn time so the ability to do so real time with enough horsepower is a good start.
Now and again I miss a show I want to see, my old route was to get it in divx format and trans code it to DVD. Now I just download it to my shared directory, and if I want to watch it right away just have TVersity update its play list. Most divx content trans codes flawlessly, unless you push the limits of high def. Truth be told if you use a lower quality level it still looks quite a bit better than standard TV, but not quite as good as standard high def, hell, the first rip to Divx loses quality anyway. For such an early solution its very usable.
I've managed to download and watch two movies in High Def, and three episodes of Start Trek, the original series which has been remastered, and with TVersity and I stream music thru my 360, watch slides shows of my photo collection, and watch transcoded divx files. Not a bad start for a gaming console... - corkster, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Thanks for that! We are all eagerly awaiting your reply!
- crcurran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Xianfrost is a waste of space. He should be banned from the planet
- foxhoundadmin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2i tried this yesterday. uninstalled it in less than an hour. it doesn't work.
first off, you need admin rights. so, if you're a smart windows user, who logs in under a limited account, you're screwed--or, at least, you have to log out and log in anytime you want to watch something.
finally, IT DOESN'T DO ITS JOB! i tried opening the latest studio 60 i downloaded, and got an error message that said,
"Can't play this content because it may not be supported. For more info, go to www.xbox.com/support."
and, yes, i did install ffdshow and ffdsplitter. it's just some half-ass hacker ***** that doesn't work. - merlihin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2h.264 is possible with XBMC. It looks fantastic too. This guy created a site to inform people how.
http://pixel.bitsplitter.com/forum/index.php - foxhoundadmin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1oh yeah. during my anger-induced rant, i forgot to mention that i use this:
""c:program filesvideolanvlcvlc.exe" -vvv %1 --sout-ffmpeg-qscale 1 :sout=#transcode{vcodec=WMV1,scale=1,acodec=wma,ab=96,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=asf,dst=%1.wmv}}"
of course, you need vlc. it's free--in case you've never heard of it: http://www.videolan.org
it's a .bat file i use. i just drop it in the folder my content is located, and, then, i just drag the content in the .bat file. normally, it takes ~10-15 minutes to re-encode an hour long tv show (without commercials).
it's not as good as streaming and transcoding, but it does its job--IT actually works. - mdshort, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1DivX is just a video compression format, meaning it does not determine whether the stream can be 5.1 surround or not. Normally DivX is bundled with audio which is compressed by a different format, such as AAC, in a container file such as .AVI. So basically you have two data streams in a single file, and whether or not you have 5.1 is determined by the audio compression and NOT DivX.
Whether or not TVersity can decode AAC 5 channel audio and re-encode it into WMV's audio compression format (wma?) while keeping all the channels intact is a completely different battle. - crcurran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1oops double post.. My bad!
- slickrate, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1the vlc encoder worked better for me. and is about 100 times easier to use than this method.
- sinembarg0, on 10/12/2007, -6/+7I don't like this so much. It requires too powerful of a pc and is a waste or money for a feature Microsoft should have included. This software transcodes on-the-fly, which means it converts it as you watch it. This eats up a lot of the power of a machine that is single core, and if not done properly (which may mean manually setting CPU affinity) it could slow down a dual core machine too. This is a very duct-tape like solution.
- seansshack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1do divx vids stream sound in 5.1 or just stereo
- stumpymacde18, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I CANT GET TVERSITY TO WORK WITH MY XBOX 360 - Please Help
Someone please help me, i would really like to get this to work and i have installed both the fddshow and the TVersity and got it sharing and have also disabled my windows media player from sharing but my 360 doesnt pick it up, also i have disabled my firewall, please help, thanks
Stumpymacde15@fsmail.net - Homez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I would've thought you already have DivX on your PC to watch your DivX files anyway.
- foxhoundadmin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1can it stream a transcoding to the 360?
i know it can transcode, but i'd like to be able to do both. if so, then, yeah, it'd be infinitely times easier than this ***** (sorry). - xelloss, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Cool thing, but Half the time the 360 can't even see the PC, I will just keep using the VLC way.
- etempest, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Out of curiosity. Did anyone notice that this article has you using ffdshow instead of the official divx package?
- xjeffx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This is a new walkthrough and a new version. Works great. I couldn't get it setup before this new version.
Thanks to the OP. - crcurran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1This will work with Windows XP. Microsoft made the xbox360 capable of streaming WMV files from XP to Xbox360. This program converts other formats on the fly and streams the video as WMV to the Xbox360.
No Windows Media Center required. - Homez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Blimey, try and help everyone by providing a guide then there's chaos everywhere. The way I see it as that not many people use XMBC because they may have got rid of their Xbox to pay for a 360, or you may just want to have a private chat on the 360 while watching, or message friends, etc. The reason I provided such a guide is because many people seem to have difficulties with the program such as it not being able to see the PC, to transcoding not working at all. At the end of the day, not everyone are tech Gods or own Windows Media Centre.
- iakupo, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Do you need Media Centre still?
Will this work on WinXP?
Otherwise I just installed wmp11 for nothing - crcurran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Homez, most of us really appreciate it. I know my clan mates are loving it. I think streaming Divx is the final deciding factor for some sitting on the fence.
I'm even teaching my nephew by giving him the link to tversity.com and challenging him to make it work with his xbox360. He may fail to get it working on his own but he'll learn more than me just setting it up for him. He plays games endlessly but I want to try to coax him into more productive hobbies. This might be his first steps in learning technology. - scain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I threw this on a secondary comp after thanksgiving, pretty painless to get working. It does have some funk to it still. Some file names it just doesn't like and some files stop a few seconds early, but you can't expect perfection from a beta and an unwillingness to mess around with the program much. Xvid's do look nice after you fine tune it a bit, except for lower resolution TV rips which get a little chunky. The tveristy guys did some nice work. I hope the future brings something like XBMC tho, cause this on-the-fly stuff is cooking the CPU. Going to have a nice electric bill if I use this too much.
- bilco, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1The XBox 360 should really just support playing of all video file formats.
Open it up for compatibility!
Then allow plugins for DivX, XviD etc... to be downloaded through XBox Live.
Then it will be really useful and more people will see the benefit of buying one.
Then you won't need a DviX DVD player at all. - seansshack, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Despite the flames here. Thanks for sharing. I use transcode 360. Works well, although native support would be nice. But this requires licensing by MS. So streaming and on the fly transcoding will have to do.
- general13, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2At home, my roommates and I wanted a way to stream our DivX movies from the fileserver to the Xbox 360. Unfortunately, Microsoft are being dicks, and refuse to support DivX. The 360 is a great platform though...especially once you get Media Center running on it. It's too bad MS had to cripple it in this regard.
We ended up getting it working without too much trouble (I typed up a walkthrough here: http://haburgate.blogsome.com/2006/10/04/stream-divx-to-xbox-360/) but the problem (with any on-the-fly conversion) is that it *DEVOURS* CPU while it's running, and it takes up to 2 minutes to get rolling. Our fileserver is only a 1.4GHz AMD with 500-something MB of RAM, and it stutters occasionally. It's *almost* fast enough, but not quite. Very frustrating.
This wouldn't be a problem if Microsoft supported DivX, or if our box was maybe 500MHz faster, but as it is, it's SO CLOSE to being good enough that it drives me crazy. Of course, WMV clips play just fine. - jblade, on 10/12/2007, -5/+5@andrusk, you clearly have no clue what your talking about.
This is entirely based on your home PC, not your xbox 360 at all. If MS added the support for it, your xbox would be able to play high end x264 flawlessly. MS just has chosen not too. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Divx is just H.263
- bitterCAMPARI, on 10/12/2007, -4/+4People who promote XviD also promote graffiti & vandalism...trust me.
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1sinembarg0:
From what I can tell, Xbox 180 can't play any HD content. I was mentioning that it can't even play H.264 in 480P (which isn't HD). I know it's only 733MHz, but it can be coded for very efficiently, since you don't have to go through layers and layers of abstraction, given that all the hardware is (nearly) identical, unlike a regular Windows machine.
I agree that Xbox 360 would be able to play H.264 1080P if MS would allow it. That's why I wish MS would allow it. And I think that that's what jblade means, he just left off the "360" in one spot and so it seemed he was referring to Xbox 180. - andrusk, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2@HappyScrappy: I never said that the 360 could play high def files either. You obviously didn't read my post either. My point is that the 360 could easily play high def divx files that are transcoded to high def .wmv files. And who gives a ***** if your computer isn't fast enough to transcode it? The point is that it can be done.
@jblade: Obviously you didn't read my post before insulting me. Real smooth dick. If you're gonna claim I have no idea what I'm talking about, at least provide some kind of example as to what you mean. Please, explain to me how the following statement is wrong; Xbox 360 can handle high def flawlessly (as long as it's wmv), while the original xbox cannot.
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We all know the Xbox 360 can't handle formats other than wmv, and if you're computer can't handle transcoding divx to high def wmv, then shut up, no one want's to hear you bitch. - sarahmaddelson, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0Ummm... Will try on my xbox today!!!
- EggoTrip, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Uhm, Maybe tversity was updated after the post but...
All I needed was Tversity to convert on the fly from my Mac Pro running OSX with Windows XP via Parallels. Not a bad solution until Connect360 which I already paid for will transcode itself. - xvcoolcarlosvx, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0o man thx a lot for this guide i finally got this working after trying so long, thnx!!!!!!! =D
- Jimzo, on 10/12/2007, -6/+6I haven't tried to do it yet, but am a big fan of the idea.
- Teaboy, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2kagelump: You should be using uncompressed video in programs like that. Then compress the final product.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+0VLC is a CANADIAN founded product via the French Canadians :)
- HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -9/+7"NOTICE
If you want your 360 to display your DivX in 720p (or higher) you must:
a) Be insane as you need at least a dual core CPU
and
b) Be ready for some experiments. "
It's too bad 360 can only play WMV and not other formats. Stupid proprietary MS. Even their hugely proprietary competitor Sony isn't so controlling in this way.
If I want to play DivX in "mere" 480p, I can use my hacked Xbox 180. I guess if I were rich and lucky, I could use a PS3 too. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+3http://www.jakeludington.com/xbox/20060321_easy_divx_to_xbox_360_streaming.html
www.runtime360.com
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/417720
http://www.neowin.net/index.php?act=view&id=32796
Plus there is already a dam DIgg THREAD on this !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
http://digg.com/gaming_news/Play_DivX_on_Your_Xbox_360
and here is the walk through !!! Caue i know you saw this when creating this Digg Thread
http://www.gamesfirst.com/?id=1267 - ajc30, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3This seems to be transcoding and not playing divx on the xbox 360 --> buried, innacurate
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Than try VLC player ass wipe !
http://www.joystiq.com/2006/11/07/how-to-transcode-and-stream-videos-on-xbox-360/
Also stream Divx content and Xvid moives to your XBox 360 if you have Media Center edition or Vista Media Center BAG LICKER !
http://www.mperfect.net/mceDivX360/
Read it and weep and learn how to use google slap nuttz
http://www.mperfect.net/mceDivX360/
Same thing! - DeusMachinae, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2Transcoding is for hookers and fat people.
Xbox1 + XBMC FTW. - AICkieran, on 10/12/2007, -8/+3"ALL OF YOU ***** ASS CLOWNS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU MAKE THIS PLACE LOOK LIKE A PLACE FOR RETARDS !!!!!!!!"
Ouch, the irony.
First of all you argue with people when you clearly have no idea what transcoding is, then you flood the comments with useless ***** that nobody wants to read.
Please go and die you little moron? Please? - HappyScrappy, on 10/12/2007, -10/+4Did you even read read my post?
360 can't play HD DivX either, it can only play transcoded content. Content I can't transcode on my PC fast enough.
I have also found that Xbox 180 can't even play 480P H.264 content at full speed. Although I think if someone hyperoptimized the H.264 decoder in XBMC, it might work. I dunno if my PC can transcode H.264 to WMV fast enough to stream to my 360, I never tried it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -13/+7http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=500860
THIS IS YOU BRAIN !! THIS IS YOUR BRIAN ON DRUGS, ANY QUESTION MORON !
http://digg.com/gaming/Play_DivX_files_through_your_Xbox_360
http://digg.com/gaming/The_Easy_Way_To_Play_DivX_On_Your_Xbox_360
http://digg.com/gaming/Easy_DivX_to_Xbox_360_Streaming_with_MCE_Video_Encoder
http://digg.com/software/VLC360_transcode_xvid_divx_to_your_XBOX_360
http://digg.com/gaming/Easy_DivX_and_XviD_to_Xbox_360_Streaming
http://digg.com/technology/Xbox_360_does_DivX
http://digg.com/mods/Stream_Divx_Xvid_to_your_Xbox_360_with_Transcode_360_
http://digg.com/gaming/Hack_Allows_Xbox_360_Owners_to_Stream_DivX_Video_in_Real-Time
http://digg.com/links/Stream_DivX_Xvid_to_your_Xbox_360:_No_conversion_necessary
http://digg.com/software/DivX_and_XviD_on_Xbox_360
http://digg.com/gaming/Stream_DivX_Movies_to_your_XBox_360_
http://digg.com/gaming/Play_DivX_on_Your_Xbox_360#c1465444
http://digg.com/gaming/Play_DivX_files_through_your_Xbox_360
http://www.runtime360.com/?p=9
ALL OF YOU ***** ASS CLOWNS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YOU MAKE THIS PLACE LOOK LIKE A PLACE FOR RETARDS !!!!!!!! - andrusk, on 10/12/2007, -11/+4The only problem with that is that the "xbox 180" is ***** for playing High Def content. Sure it can upconvert low def content to high def resolution, as well as dvds, but it's not strong enough to play natively high def content. At least with the 360 you can play high def without it choking.
- kagelump, on 10/12/2007, -13/+2Until you try to stick it in or out of a production program (Eg. Adobe After Effects)
I've always wondered why Xvid hates them - wicked9, on 10/12/2007, -18/+7any love for the macs?
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