[Note: Xbox 360 is not natively compatible with DivX or Xvid formats, though DivX support has been rumored to be included in the pending Fall Update.]
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[Note: Xbox 360 is not natively compatible with DivX or Xvid formats, though DivX support has been rumored to be included in the pending Fall Update.]
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Reader Comments (95)
Posted: Nov 13th 2007 10:59AM (Unverified) said
Kickass! Picked up my 40GB PS3 last week. Now I just need to quit my job and enjoy everything!
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Posted: Nov 13th 2007 8:22PM (Unverified) said
now 360 HAS to get divx, otherwise ps3 is gonna appeal to the media extender niche
touche ps3, touche
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touche ps3, touche
Posted: Nov 25th 2007 2:42PM (Unverified) said
For people having probs with the ps3 showing no data in thier video section is bcuz when u create your data disk you must put the clips(.MP4,MPG,AVI) in a folder CALLED "VIDEO"(X:\VIDEO\) "X:\" being your cd\dvd drive. You can't put them on the root directory of the disk. Hope this helps!
-Italia
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-Italia
Posted: Nov 13th 2007 10:50AM (Unverified) said
The PS3 already supports H.264. What it doesn't support yet is H.264 inside anything besides a mp4 container.
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Posted: Nov 13th 2007 10:44AM (Unverified) said
Wow... this has just screwed up my plans to buy a Xbox360...
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Posted: Nov 13th 2007 11:51AM FrankTheCrank said
I've got to laugh....hahahahaha.
Today, the PS3 just pwned the 360.
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Today, the PS3 just pwned the 360.
Posted: Nov 13th 2007 4:10PM (Unverified) said
Yeah, buy the ps3, I have yet to have my ps3 FIND any media on my media sharing pcs, let alone be able to play them. The 360 works fine though, oh and xvid and divx are in the fall update/
oh, and frank, you are a douche
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oh, and frank, you are a douche
Posted: Nov 13th 2007 5:19PM Vidikron said
@Synner
I had absolutely no issues sharing media to my PS3. First off, make sure you actually have media sharing enabled in the PS3's settings. Second, how are you sharing media with your XBox? I don't have an MCE PC, so I have to use that Windows Media Connect... which is now integrated with Windows Media Center. In the media connect settings you need to make sure the PS3 is an allowed device. That's it.
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I had absolutely no issues sharing media to my PS3. First off, make sure you actually have media sharing enabled in the PS3's settings. Second, how are you sharing media with your XBox? I don't have an MCE PC, so I have to use that Windows Media Connect... which is now integrated with Windows Media Center. In the media connect settings you need to make sure the PS3 is an allowed device. That's it.
Posted: Nov 13th 2007 10:46AM (Unverified) said
You read that microsoft? do us all a favour and out do it with xvid support
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Posted: Nov 13th 2007 11:03AM (Unverified) said
I think they are, or were considering it, but I bet MS will have a press release out by tomorrow now to announce it. Competition FTW!
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Posted: Nov 13th 2007 10:46AM (Unverified) said
Just to make sure, can anyone confirm that the xbox360 can NOT play these type of files?
Thanks.
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Thanks.
Posted: Nov 13th 2007 10:53AM Crono141 said
In its current state, the 360 can not play them natively. I stream them through Transcode360, though, and haven't had a problem except early on, which was fixed by re-installing Transcode360 on my server.
Divx support has been announced for Media Center Extenders. It is implied, but not confirmed, that this includes the 360.
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Divx support has been announced for Media Center Extenders. It is implied, but not confirmed, that this includes the 360.
Posted: Nov 13th 2007 10:51AM (Unverified) said
can anyone explain indepth what this means? I have a ps3, and what can Divx support bring?
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Posted: Nov 13th 2007 10:55AM (Unverified) said
Virtually any video file you can obtain via torrent (TV shows, movies, etc).
There are also pleanty of legitimate companies who encode in Divx.
You'll be able to simply copy over and watch Divx files on your PS3 rather than having to encode the video in a different format.
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There are also pleanty of legitimate companies who encode in Divx.
You'll be able to simply copy over and watch Divx files on your PS3 rather than having to encode the video in a different format.
Posted: Nov 13th 2007 12:42PM hey buddy said
"can anyone explain indepth what this means?"
TEH TORRENTZ! Battlestar Galactica Razor, American Gangster (camcorder rip), etc.
That's about what that means. I wonder if you can download directly from the browser to the hard-drive... Otherwise, this is neat but not that serious to me as I have a DVD player that will play nearly any file format I put on a disk... And my friend has the next model up that has a USB port on the front, so he just watches video off of a thumbdrive. Things are going nuts.
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TEH TORRENTZ! Battlestar Galactica Razor, American Gangster (camcorder rip), etc.
That's about what that means. I wonder if you can download directly from the browser to the hard-drive... Otherwise, this is neat but not that serious to me as I have a DVD player that will play nearly any file format I put on a disk... And my friend has the next model up that has a USB port on the front, so he just watches video off of a thumbdrive. Things are going nuts.
Posted: Nov 13th 2007 1:07PM rsmith4321 said
The problem is most torrent video is Xvid so without that support its almost meaningless. I've been playing xvid on my 360 for a long time with transcode360.
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Posted: Nov 13th 2007 9:48PM SoCoolCurt said
dude it says "RUMOR". since when does a rumor equal fact? a rumor isn't considered "confirmed" until Microsoft says it. 360 will get DivX support eventually but dammit let my Playstation have this one!
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Posted: Nov 13th 2007 10:53AM (Unverified) said
This was already confirmed by MS befor this post that they are adding support for this in the fall update...
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Posted: Nov 13th 2007 11:13AM (Unverified) said
Do you have a link for that?
Its not like I imagine it won't happen, especially after this solid confirmation for Sony, but until we get a solid announcement and not a report of someone saying something in a way that kinda sounds like confirmation then immediately backpedaling, its still a rumor. I have a less interwub-news-addicted friend with a 360 and I'd like to tell them for sure, rather than a maybe.
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Its not like I imagine it won't happen, especially after this solid confirmation for Sony, but until we get a solid announcement and not a report of someone saying something in a way that kinda sounds like confirmation then immediately backpedaling, its still a rumor. I have a less interwub-news-addicted friend with a 360 and I'd like to tell them for sure, rather than a maybe.
Posted: Nov 13th 2007 10:56AM (Unverified) said
Thanks RobR10, the Xbox360 does offer multimedia streaming right? (I'm not just imagining this)
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Manashima: It means if you have your PC with a bunch of downloaded movies in your basement and you want to watch it on your big LCD TV upstairs. The PS3 or XBOX can stream the video directly to your TV without having to burn anything or convert any films or anything...
It's the future... =-)
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Manashima: It means if you have your PC with a bunch of downloaded movies in your basement and you want to watch it on your big LCD TV upstairs. The PS3 or XBOX can stream the video directly to your TV without having to burn anything or convert any films or anything...
It's the future... =-)
Posted: Nov 13th 2007 11:03AM Crono141 said
The Xbox 360 is a media center extender. Google them. I have mine boot up in MCE mode because I use it to watch TV, record TV, watch DVD's I've ripped (in 5.1 surround), watch anime I've torrented, listen to CD's I've ripped.
I use it for all that more than play games. That'll all change when rockband enters the house.
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I use it for all that more than play games. That'll all change when rockband enters the house.
Posted: Nov 13th 2007 10:57AM (Unverified) said
Divx = MPEG-4 ASP = Xvid
Unless they're doing something stupid an limiting it to only support Divx, I'm pretty sure Xvid will work too.
Now I just need MKV container with embeded subtitle support and I can finally retire the old Xbox.
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Unless they're doing something stupid an limiting it to only support Divx, I'm pretty sure Xvid will work too.
Now I just need MKV container with embeded subtitle support and I can finally retire the old Xbox.
Posted: Nov 13th 2007 11:07AM (Unverified) said
As far as we know, they could annonce Divx-support and then restrict the playback to specific FOURCC that only apply to "real" Divx-files. Then Xvid-files woudn't play without modification.
True, it would be really stupid to do something like that, but we are talking about Sony here...
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True, it would be really stupid to do something like that, but we are talking about Sony here...
Posted: Nov 13th 2007 10:56AM (Unverified) said
Just what I've been waiting for. Hope they will continue adding codecs.
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Posted: Nov 13th 2007 11:03AM (Unverified) said
Awesome, this will be perfect for watching my completely legal collections of avi files...
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Posted: Nov 13th 2007 11:07AM (Unverified) said
pretty frigging sweet, time to fill up my new 40gb
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Posted: Nov 13th 2007 11:09AM Crono141 said
Ok, everybody's talking about picking up new drives and not having enough space. Just buy 1 big ass 1 TB or 2 big ass 500 gb drives for your PC, and put all your content there. Both the PS3 and the 360 can talk to your computer and pull the content through the magical tubes of ethernet and play them on your big TV in the living room.
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Posted: Nov 13th 2007 11:25AM VampireHunterZ said
I've heard that Western Digital doesn't play nice with the 360. Essentially it "sleeps" in the middle of a video because it stays awake when accessed directly from the PC. Don't quote me on this just read it somewhere.
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Posted: Nov 13th 2007 12:51PM hey buddy said
"I've heard that Western Digital doesn't play nice with the 360. Essentially it "sleeps" in the middle of a video because it stays awake when accessed directly from the PC."
That's possible - I used to use a small utility for OS X/Mac while editing that would keep the external hard drives I had attached to my computer 'awake' by accessing them at set time intervals like once every two minutes... It helped prevent some random Final Cut Pro crashes I would get when it would go to access some clips that weren't on my main machine - sometimes the slight delay caused by spooling-up the drive would just cause it to conk-out. This was back on FCP 3, but a utility like that can still be useful it seems.
I'm sure there's got to be something like it for the other OS's out there.
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That's possible - I used to use a small utility for OS X/Mac while editing that would keep the external hard drives I had attached to my computer 'awake' by accessing them at set time intervals like once every two minutes... It helped prevent some random Final Cut Pro crashes I would get when it would go to access some clips that weren't on my main machine - sometimes the slight delay caused by spooling-up the drive would just cause it to conk-out. This was back on FCP 3, but a utility like that can still be useful it seems.
I'm sure there's got to be something like it for the other OS's out there.
Posted: Nov 13th 2007 11:15AM (Unverified) said
This is the reason I waited on converting all my files.
Awesome news!!!!
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Awesome news!!!!
Posted: Nov 13th 2007 11:22AM VampireHunterZ said
I haven't heard much dicussion about this but how does the PS3 compare to the 360 as a media center? I have a 360 and streaming HD content is really cool since my PC sucks at playing it. So far only WMV and MP4 is supported. What formats does the PS3 currently support?
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