Xbox 360 - DivX Streaming

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Yesterday I bought a Kinect and a such had to move the Xbox to the lounge for all the family to use.

I remember when I purchased the Xbox years ago it wasn't possible to playback DivX files. Then there was some software you could have running on the PC (forget it's name) that would re-encode and send it to the Xbox. I vaguely remember it being horrid and resource hungry.

I am just wondering what the current situation is with DivX. What do I need to do to play my movie collection from my Windows 7 machine?

I am running over Ethernet and the Xbox is an Elite without mod's. I am running a homegroup on the LAN but would be happy to browse either via MediaCentre or by folder.

Cheers

Adam
 
If you add your DivX files to your Windows Media Player library and set up the sharing there, it should show up immediately when you go to "My Videos" on the dashboard.

You might need to download a small update the first time you try to play a file, but it's all natively supported now.
 
Yup, as above, you don't need any 3rd party stuff, just share your media in WMP and it'll appear in your My Videos section of your dash.

Note that the 360 still doesn't support MKV, however DivX, WMV and the like will all play fine.
 
ooh that easy?? can't believe i didn't realise that had changed.

i have a net top PC in the lounge i only use for watching divx. it does the job but this would be better.

if only the xbox was quieter - guess i'll just have to turn the volume up :)

Big thanks :)
 
I use Vuze, streams everything you drag into the xbox section to it,
Saves downloading then transferring and sharing,
just download, drag to 360, done
 
oO Stevie Oo said:
I use Vuze, streams everything you drag into the xbox section to it,
Saves downloading then transferring and sharing,
just download, drag to 360, done
Click to expand...

Wait, what?

So, if I have a 1080p mkv file on my PC, I simply drag this file onto my 360 icon in network's... Turn on 360, load up zune and zune will stream it from my PC? And play it as a mkv, not convert it?

I never knew of this, and I do a lot of video streaming from my PC to my 360, all of which are xvid converts from mkv so as you can imagine, quality is awful some times.

ags
 
Not quite lol

mkv isn't supported yet as its not a codec (its a shell or summet)
i'm hoping it will be soon though

Avi/divx, mp3 etc are all supported though
 
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