Topic: Playing Divx And (s)vcd On Xbox (Read 60 times)

easye082 · « **on:** March 24, 2003, 05:29:00 PM »

i would just play the cds thru a network...you can share cdrom drive of ur PC and play to the xbox

Mad_X · « **Reply #1 on:** March 24, 2003, 05:43:00 PM »

Well, anyone?

I'm going to bed now, almost 4am. So if anyone knows how to solve my problem, please let me know.

Please don't say anything like using a network, or make a xiso cd or whatever. I just want to use those cd's I already burned without the pc. That the reason I bought the Xbox in the first place. Able to watch dvd, divx, svcd, those kinds of stuff.

aaron_xbox · « **Reply #2 on:** March 24, 2003, 08:31:00 PM »

My ISO9660 (not joliet) 8.3 filenamed CD-Rs of DIVX work fine with my XBMP and Xbox... Ofcourse the early part of my collection (considerable amount) are in Joliet format and supposedly won't work on the X-box - although I haven't tried them myself.

Maybe that's my job for tonight.

ABEG · « **Reply #3 on:** March 24, 2003, 10:47:00 PM »

Are you sure it is the format and not the media that has the problem. Unless you have a Samsung drive (unlikely), than most CD-R discs won't play.

inspiron · « **Reply #4 on:** March 25, 2003, 12:45:00 AM »

It mostly depends on the DVD drive in the XBOX itself if CD-R's are playing or not. I bought XBOX 1.1 and luckily, it has a SAMSUNG DVD drive inthere so i am basically able to play any CD-R/CDRW i've tried (at least 5-6 different marks).

If this is not the case, then either:
-buy SAMSUNG drive on ebay&wherever
-reburn CD-R's to CDRW (yes, most of XBOX play CDRWs)
-reburn CD-R's to DVD

-share movie from you PC drive (you know, it is not that hard to buy cross-ver cable and connect them together)

Regards.

king rolo · « **Reply #5 on:** March 25, 2003, 12:56:00 AM »

Totaly agree. I've got XBox 1.1 too with the Samsung drive and I can play all my old collection of DivX CDs (thank God !! as that's why I bought it in the first place). The CDs are all different brands, different sizes, speeds etc etc. None of them are rewritable.

I have a question. What can you NOT do with an XBox ?

uriulet · « **Reply #6 on:** March 25, 2003, 01:49:00 AM »

first of all, I'd like to say hello to everyboy in this my first post here.

I exactly have the same problem as Mad_X. In my case, I have lots of cd-r's with divx which I can't play in my thomson drive. I am seriously considering either to calibrate my driver lens or installing an dvd pc drive. Hasn't anyone chosen any of these options? Calibrating the lens in a Thomson drive seems to be quite difficult and risky, but installing the dvd driver seems easy.

pd: I have probably made some terrible mistakes with my English but it's just that, as you must have guessed, that's not my usual language.

akarnid · « **Reply #7 on:** March 25, 2003, 03:02:00 AM »

If you haven't got new-ish xbox with a drive that can read CD-R's then you are out of luck. You could of course pick up a new hard drive, plop it in the box and transfer all those movies to the Xbox via FTP. It's always best to watch stuff off the HD, no waiting and no caching.

uriulet · « **Reply #8 on:** March 25, 2003, 06:07:00 AM »

As far as I have seen, the options that I have to be able to watch my divx films burnt in iso9660 and in several cd-r brands (princo, verbatim, woxter, traxdata, tdk) are as follows:
- calibrate the lens of my Thomson drive
- installing a dvd pc driver
- transferring via FTP the files from pc to xbox

But, aproximately, how long does a film take to be transferred from PC to Xbox via FTP? And all that I need is just buying a cheap cable and a Ethernet card?

chilin_dude · « **Reply #9 on:** March 25, 2003, 07:40:00 AM »

i would say to transfer a CDR (700mb)file to the xbox fia ftp would take about 2mins because 700mb/5mbps =140seconds = 2minutes 20 so it doesn't take that long really!

your other option you didn't mention are:
buy a samsung from someone on these forums as you will then still be able to play your origional games.

or to add a external dvdrom as you could then have the origional drive and one to play divx etc

uriulet · « **Reply #10 on:** March 26, 2003, 12:09:00 AM »

Why not add a PC dvdrom drive to your xbox so you can play all sorts of cdr's then it should be able to read it, mine reads them all. [code=auto:0]

cube · « **Reply #11 on:** March 26, 2003, 12:49:00 PM »

The easiest solution is to stream them through Relax or Samba from your PC drive.. I have a 4 second delay between starting and playing a movie (you can shorten that if you want...).
No need to tranfer your files to the xbox and it works great! all you need to do is to hook up your xbox to your hub/router or via a crosscable to the newtwork card in your PC.

Redemptionn · « **Reply #12 on:** March 31, 2003, 10:20:00 AM »

Cough, maybe it is me but have you ever heard of a wireless connection?

MadmanX · « **Reply #13 on:** April 18, 2003, 04:45:00 PM »

My problem was: xbmp was outdated. Installed new one and everything worked just fine. Except the last few second of svcd won't play.

I've read something about that before, so I'm planning to search how to solve that problem if I get my xbox fixed.

btw. Using network to transfer files. Sometimes the speed is 10+MB/s.
Which means 700MB will only take 1 min. to transfer

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