Topic: Playing High Defintion Movie On 360 (Read 1010 times)

MaxP · « **Reply #75 on:** August 04, 2006, 04:09:00 AM »

QUOTE(jtom617 @ Aug 3 2006, 10:53 PM)

I love high definition!!!!! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

as do we all.....
is real nice..

McFace5 · « **Reply #76 on:** August 07, 2006, 12:35:00 PM »

QUOTE(Mekapo @ Jul 29 2006, 10:54 PM)

I can get them working fine, but i'm having trouble having my shared directories that i have set up in Media Center on the PC showing up in the Media Center Extender. All that shows up is the Shared Video directory from "my documents". Also is there a way to share my DVD-ROM drive on my PC as I have a lot of HD content backed up on DVD-Rs and would rather not have to transfer them to my HDD just to watch it.

Yes you can, just share any folder to the 360, then inside that folder make a shortcut to your dvd drive. When you browse on the 360 to that folder you can click on the shortcut and use your dvd drive. I've been doing this for awhile now.

lechill · « **Reply #77 on:** August 08, 2006, 12:50:00 AM »

I can play .ts files just fine but most downloads are .mkv is there anyway to convert mkv to ts ? (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

MaxP · « **Reply #78 on:** August 08, 2006, 02:05:00 AM »

QUOTE(McFace5 @ Aug 7 2006, 07:42 PM)

Yes you can, just share any folder to the 360, then inside that folder make a shortcut to your dvd drive. When you browse on the 360 to that folder you can click on the shortcut and use your dvd drive. I've been doing this for awhile now.

thats deffinatly worth knowing.

joe90 · « **Reply #79 on:** August 14, 2006, 02:13:00 AM »

ok .. some information

MKV and .TS are containers.. They contain audio/video streams.. Not nessicasry the same type of stream every time.

.TS will play will HDpump
WMV-HD - play

for mkv that use x.264 encoding you have two options. Use a converter (Transcode 360/Vlc 360) or convert to WMV.

To convert you will need to install a frameserver, so install FFMEG, this allows programs that normally cannot load x.264 etc to load and access them via the frameserver.

To conver to WMV i use the MS media encoder, or some software called River. This works. It converts fine. However the sound seems to drop from 5.1 to 2.

What we need to be able to do (and i cannt work out how) is to extract the audio stream in 5.1 (mkvextract) and then convert the video 'river' or MME, then some how mutex the sound in 5.1 back into the wmv container.

joe90 · « **Reply #80 on:** August 14, 2006, 02:48:00 AM »

so more info (edit not working)

WMV can only Hold Stero and a max bitrate of 8meg per sec.
MPEG2 - can support AC3 (5.1) and up to 28meg per second.

So what I think we need to do is the following:

x/h.264 extract the streams (mkvextact) to get a video and audio (ac3)
Convert the x264 using a framebuffer to mpeg2
then add in the audio.

personnaly i get mixed results, and a lot of the time the 360 will freeze or go hyper slow if the file even exists on a share folder.

(I think when you go into videos the 360 drills down thru the movies tryign to create the thumbnails) and hangs on some mpegs ..

So what we need to do it.
Find reliable software to convert to mpeg2
find reliable software to insert the ac3 stream into the mpeg2 .

anyone got any ideas?

ljmgd8 · « **Reply #81 on:** August 15, 2006, 05:58:00 AM »

So could you please explain one more time, how to play mkv x,h264 hd , Are you talking about on the fly converting?? Because i have all the material burned, so any reencoding is a no go. Tnx for your answers.

LUC1FER · « **Reply #82 on:** August 26, 2006, 08:18:00 AM »

I`m also interested in this. How can I play x264 HD movies?

jblade · « **Reply #83 on:** September 01, 2006, 02:31:00 PM »

I made my own topic on this but anyways

In WMP 11 Beta 2, Microsoft added the ability to act like MCE and play videos right on the xbox, even if you have XP pro.

Has anyone tried this yet?

Any luck on x264 ?

Clay_Trainor · « **Reply #84 on:** September 02, 2006, 04:01:00 PM »

QUOTE(jblade @ Sep 1 2006, 09:02 PM)

I made my own topic on this but anyways

In WMP 11 Beta 2, Microsoft added the ability to act like MCE and play videos right on the xbox, even if you have XP pro.

Has anyone tried this yet?

Any luck on x264 ?

I cant figure out how to stream video yet... are you sure you can?

carrico · « **Reply #85 on:** September 03, 2006, 02:23:00 AM »

QUOTE(Clay_Trainor @ Sep 2 2006, 11:08 PM)

I cant figure out how to stream video yet... are you sure you can?

And audio? how did u stream it? I've intaled WMP11B2 but cant figure how to do that.

Clay_Trainor · « **Reply #86 on:** September 03, 2006, 06:50:00 AM »

just go to the music section on your xbox 360 and select your computer.

If you get errors then your connection isnt setup properly... try running windows network setup wizard.

You must also select which folders you want to share and make sure that your xbox360 has sharing enabled in wmp11. If you are unsure of what i mean then just go to help topics in wmp11 and search for xbox

Caldor · « **Reply #87 on:** September 04, 2006, 03:43:00 AM »

You people are not being nearly specific enough. To clarify:

1. the 360 will playback WMV7 through to WMV9 standard profile footage including the crappy "WMV-HD" which is just higher resolutions than the standard D1 resolution footage
2. Playback mpeg1 / mpeg 2 including higher than D1 resolution

Thats it.

It does not universally support WMV : there is no WMV9-AP VC1 decoder.

There is no AVC / H.264 support.

As much as they support WMV7-WMV9 which are quasi proprietary mpeg4-asp like codecs, there is no mpeg4-asp support.

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