Stream DivX & Xvid to your Xbox 360: No conversion necessary

No word yet on whether or not this works with DivX HD files, but it is possible to stream various non-WMV files to your Xbox 360, by letting Windows Media Encoder convert on the fly. It's a little bit involved, but once you have everything set up you'll be able to browse and control movies directly from the 360.

Any HDBeat readers want to give it a shot with some 720p files and let us know how it goes?

[Via 360insider.net]

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 15th 2006 7:01PM]

"No conversion necessary" is a bit of a stretch, and so might finding a computer that can encode HD in realtime...

[kcchesnut Posted Jan 16th 2006 12:19PM]

er, um ... i wrote it. for higher quality divx(xvid) movies (not HD) i've had to change the .prx profile to reduce the resolution quality during encoding, else i get some pausing.



i'm definitely interested in hearing if it can handle HD though. don't have beefy enough hardware to test myself

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 20th 2006 2:48PM]

It seem to be a complex solution to see divx on a TV...

I'ved just conected my TV on the TV Out of my AGP Video Card and I have the same result with a lot of tools...

Thanks, Alain.

[(Unverified) Posted Jan 20th 2006 5:25PM]

What out are you using? If you can connect via DVI, then great.

Currently I have my TV about 20 feet from the PC, and an S-video cable connecting the two, it gets the job done, but w/ noticeable loss in quality and interference. also, it doesn't really allow me to browse the content on the pc from the TV, if I could do it through my network and at HD quality it would be much more satisfying.