That's weird, my 360 never fails me on divx/xvid movies.
But I must say, in general I'm more impressed with PS3 than 360. One of the main factor would be the quietness of PS3. 360 isn't extremely loud, but the sound of the fan is quite irritating. Yes, I can also hear the noise on PS3 but it is one of those subtle sound that you can tolerate and forgot when the movie is playing.
Some xvid files are supported, some are not. I suspect that older files are using a different format since I'm having most trouble with them. I wonder if there is a way to fix legacy xvid files to be more compatible with divx.
Both Xbox and PS3 won't play earlier iterations of Divx and compatibility should be similar between the two, most newer files should play fine unless you have a file with funky encoding.
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Zaxour @ Dec 18th 2007 1:09AM
Xvid works as well! This works much better for me than divx on 360, the 360 wouldn't play any of my files :(
Kylearan @ Dec 18th 2007 1:11AM
That's odd; my 360 plays everything I've thrown at it.
JAmerican @ Dec 18th 2007 1:59AM
My 360 played The Condemed Divx Encoded fully without a problem :).
rockstar @ Dec 18th 2007 3:24AM
That's weird, my 360 never fails me on divx/xvid movies.
But I must say, in general I'm more impressed with PS3 than 360. One of the main factor would be the quietness of PS3. 360 isn't extremely loud, but the sound of the fan is quite irritating. Yes, I can also hear the noise on PS3 but it is one of those subtle sound that you can tolerate and forgot when the movie is playing.
DrXym @ Dec 18th 2007 4:28AM
Some xvid files are supported, some are not. I suspect that older files are using a different format since I'm having most trouble with them. I wonder if there is a way to fix legacy xvid files to be more compatible with divx.
MattyG @ Dec 18th 2007 5:35AM
sorry rockstar this is not at you
shut it M$ FANboy's you had a divx update recently as did the ps3
Temple @ Dec 18th 2007 9:58AM
Both Xbox and PS3 won't play earlier iterations of Divx and compatibility should be similar between the two, most newer files should play fine unless you have a file with funky encoding.
reagarding the 360:
http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2007/11/30/december-2007-video-playback-faq.aspx
16. Why don’t some of my older versions of DivX® files play?
Since we only support Mpeg-4 compatible codec implementations, we will not be able to play video files older than DivX® 5.0.