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Xbox 360 DivX/XviD Playback Test (Verdict: Almost Perfect)

gizmodo.com — 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.

Who dugg this? Made popular Dec 4, 2007

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  • mikesly, on 12/04/2007, -4/+207At least Microsoft is listening to us
  • Beesoc, on 12/04/2007, -10/+194This is great news. Divx was what I was waiting for to buy an XBox 360. I just ordered an Xbox and Mass Effect!
  • idc5, on 12/04/2007, -6/+175the only good news for microsoft seems to come from Xbox 360
  • eightballx, on 12/04/2007, -1/+85Watching 30 Rock on my TV right now. Working perfectly.
    Thanks, Microsoft!

    Oh, and for mac users using connect 360, rename your .avi or .divx files to .wmv, they will be picked up and work the same :) Expecting nullriver to update soon and fix the problem
  • XThunderStormX, on 12/04/2007, -4/+79Time for MSoft to tackle x/h264 and Matrosaka containers.

    Mad props, Bill.
  • skifreak107, on 12/04/2007, -1/+64Not having to transcode is infinitely better than transcoding.
  • knodi, on 12/04/2007, -1/+52man I can't wait to go home and update my 360.
  • inactive, on 12/04/2007, -8/+57WRONG! Zune.

    Next.
  • Dhalsim007, on 12/04/2007, -21/+69Now if Sony would just move their ass and put this in PS3. That would make my life wonderful....
  • xXShadowstormXx, on 12/04/2007, -9/+48Microsoft Office, Vista, Zune, Xbox 360, - they're all doing quite reasonably well.
  • NeoNightmareX, on 12/04/2007, -5/+43Dugg for "puppies made of candy"
  • yutt, on 12/04/2007, -2/+38Are you ***** retarded?
  • TheRedNewt, on 12/04/2007, -1/+37Microsoft seems to have adopted more of a "what the customer wants" mentality lately than in the past, which can only be good for us consumers. I have a few movies in XviD that I was almost to the point of transcoding for the 360, but now I have no need.
  • DudleyInnocent, on 12/04/2007, -3/+37No one told you to install vista on your commadore. Leave your crappy experiences at the door.
  • freff, on 12/04/2007, -5/+38Well, technically, he did say that he liked the "game" on it, so...
  • ncr100, on 12/04/2007, -5/+36Mass Effect is fabulous. All its visual glitches are completely forgiven by me because of how good a game it is.
  • m00nstone, on 12/04/2007, -1/+31Hell just froze over. The number of people that had posted this would NEVER happen....
  • santasing, on 12/04/2007, -0/+28Man these door to door salesmen suck.
  • tokyomonster, on 12/04/2007, -8/+36I have in my hands a zune80, that I just got from zuneoriginals.net yesterday. i sold my ipod classic for it, and i'm glad i did. the packaging was astonishing. i can't believe the attention to detail they put into, not to mention the zune just feels alot better than the ipod classic. awesome screen + wifi sync make you dumb to use anything else.
  • Konrad9, on 12/04/2007, -1/+26Thanks for the Connect360 hint :D
  • DaveXensen, on 12/04/2007, -4/+27still no reason to turn off my old school xbox with 350gb hard drive, which plays back xvid/divx perfectly with any sort of weird option i demand (audio delays, aspect ratios, etc.)

    XBMC FTW
  • mywhitenoise, on 12/04/2007, -8/+31Soon enough. Hopefully we'll get it this month.
    Good to know there's good compatibility with the 360.
  • nirav72, on 12/04/2007, -1/+24Try playing a 2 gig 720p Div/Xvid file on the old xbox using XBMC. It will start stuttering. Doesn't have the CPU to run it smoothly. Especially over the network. The 360 will play it without any issues. (I have both boxes.)
  • xXGeechXx, on 12/04/2007, -1/+22You do realize that you can stream virtually any movie you can find on the internet in HD easily to your xbox from your computer... There are very few products out there that do this and none of them play Halo...

    Not to even mention that the Xbox360 has a DVD player in it.
  • tanside, on 12/04/2007, -0/+18well in a few months to a year we'll catch up to you, until then i'll be happy with this format, as it is the most common, you don't have to be a codec snob.
  • koonchu, on 12/04/2007, -1/+18EXPLODING WITH LOVE!!!
  • MiDri, on 12/04/2007, -1/+17I've played mass effect through almost 4 times now, will do a 5th before I take a break -- it is a great freaking game... the texture pop is kind of stupid though, hopefully they release a patch to fix the LOD.

    Note however, on Noveria (really anywhere you fight biotics) SAVE A LOT the physics have a habit of getting you stuck in places you character can not get out of -- and you can not use any buttons other then dashboard when it happens...
  • louiedog, on 12/04/2007, -0/+16I'm on hour 26. What are you talking about?
  • chris9902, on 12/04/2007, -2/+18720p DivX torrents > XBMC.
  • asskey, on 12/04/2007, -1/+17Thats a lot of porn...
  • MonsterChaOS, on 12/04/2007, -6/+22wow, only a few years behind XBMC... Good to see they are catching up though.
  • JayD16, on 12/04/2007, -2/+17Seriously....I guess this goes to show what its like to have as many coder's as Microsoft does. DIVX support goes to PS3 dev kits and Microsoft signs a deal and puts it in a new update in what seems like a month's time. Maybe it IS just that easy and the PS3 will get it this month. I hope it does anyway.
  • lostradamus, on 12/04/2007, -16/+31Yay divx! Welcome to 2003!
  • section31, on 12/04/2007, -4/+17hello, we still need mkv and x264 support.
  • FutureGuy, on 12/04/2007, -0/+13MS has a lot going for it, not the best of times of MS haters. 2 of 10 top innovative products of the year as per popular mechanics were from MS http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/industr ... (Surface and Sync http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDiVWPtn010 ), Zune is one of the hottest gadgets of the season (who knew) and 360 is doing very well. MS also posted the best growth since 1999.
  • ronnsprocket, on 12/04/2007, -1/+13zune80 def the best player ive had. unfortunately I chose to sell it b/c running parallels just to use the software really put an unneccasary amount of strain on my macbook pro. i went and picked up the classic 80, and it is utter ***** compared to the zune. its interface is so slow.
  • manifestdata, on 12/04/2007, -1/+12Obviously you don't know much about codecs if it only plays 5%. Either you have no idea how to rip to divx, you are an idiot trying to play ogg vorbis files, or a fanboy planting flamebait. Most likely the latter so shame on me for responding!
  • skrowl, on 12/04/2007, -0/+11360 already supported H.264 (since the spring 2007 update) - Guide --> http://www.digital-digest.com/articles/Xbox_360_H. ...
  • Jangles, on 12/04/2007, -0/+10This morning has been like christmas for me. All these videos I have had now all work. Unfortunately I have a mac and I have to wait for an update to connect 360 to support streaming...but hooking up my external HDD or flash drive (which is also a new feature, thank God!) will work just fine in the mean time.

    I wish MS was this great in their other depts. I may be an Apple fanboy but I lOVE my 360.
  • xXGeechXx, on 12/04/2007, -0/+10actually yes, yes it can.
  • spidoman, on 12/04/2007, -0/+10It's a white box. Just found out myself :P
  • tanside, on 12/04/2007, -0/+10i don't believe so as of yet, you'll just have to settle with re-encoding the file with hard subtitles.
  • itseffinkasey, on 12/04/2007, -9/+18Don't forget Vista!
  • Kerath, on 12/04/2007, -1/+10I tested with an axxo rip and an a 720p divx movie. Both worked fine.
  • MiDri, on 12/04/2007, -0/+9has had h264 for months -- x264 is an encoder.
  • eightballx, on 12/04/2007, -0/+9Yep, no NTFS support though, a fat32 formatted usb hdd will work afaik
  • TheMu, on 12/04/2007, -1/+10Sweet, I'm getting my 360 today too.
  • superjohnyo, on 12/04/2007, -1/+10make sure you go into the options, then the transcoder section, and change the max resolution.
  • mywhitenoise, on 12/04/2007, -24/+32Why the ***** would he spend $400 for a 360 when he already owns a PS3 and divx is coming to it?
    And don't tell me exclusives, because most games on 360 are also on PS3 and PC.
  • inactive, on 12/04/2007, -4/+12um, there are lots of games on the PS3, lots of good ones even. I own a PS3 and i have plenty of good games that i play lots.
    Props to Microsoft to getting this update finally. Its nice to be able to just drag my media files over.
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