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[mar00n]

Hey all, Just wanted to share a few things I have kept to myself for quite a while now. Taken alot of information from you guys so thought I would give you something to treat your xbox with (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

As you all know, even if you upgrade your xbox to 1.4GHz and 128MB it will still not play MKVs

Basically, by following these instructions you will be watching blu-ray rips on your xbox with hardly any loss of quailty. I am extremely happy with the results and now have over 250GB of blu-ray rips stored on my NAS via XBMC.


You will need the following:

    * Softmodded Xbox Console with XBMC
    * HD component cables
    * A network or a large xbox hard drive
    * 1080 TV
    * Gotsent  http://www.videohelp.com/download/GOTSent023final.rar

Ok lets get started.

Once you have your blu-ray or HD-DVD rip (MKV file) we can begin the conversion process.

   1.  Open up Gotsent and load your MKV file
   2. Choose your destination for final file
   3. Choose MPEG2 or AVI and tick the box
   4. Click convert

Time to convert depends on your CPU (core2quad @ 3.6GHz = 1.5 hours)

Here is the end result!

http://i534.photobucket.com/albums/ee348/M...pg?t=1233835059

Tell me what you think!

Hope I have helped a few people save a few £/$'s

[lordvader129]

just to clarify something, mkv isnt what the xbox has problems with, mkv is a container and xbmc reads it just fine, its h264 video (which is commonly packed in mkv containers) and the xbox cant play it at speed at resolutions higher than about 320x240

there was a chart once (cant find it now) that showed what codecs xbmc could play at what resolutions, and it showed it wouldnt have trouble with 1280x720 using less compressed codecs such as mpeg2 (which you seem to be using) or xvid, although im not sure if theres any quality loss in the video

[dokworm]

Any particular settings required?
And does the current version work okay?
http://www.videohelp...GOTSent24b7.rar