What file formats do my movie files need to be to be able to run on the Xbox 360 so that I can store them and watch them from the hard drive?
As you may have heard, with the Xbox 360 Flash Fall 2006 System Update they are adding support for WMV video playback from new sources. Videos can be streamed from a PC running Windows Media Connect, Windows Media Player 11, or the new Zune client player, and can also be played from Optical Disc and most USB mass storage devices. For all these sources, only the WMV video file format and codecs are supported. How do I know if a video file will work on the Xbox 360? Currently only the Windows Media Video (WMV) file format and codecs are supported. If you have a file with a ?.wmv? extension, then the odds are pretty good that it will work. Technical details on the types of files we support can be found at the end of this post, but the easiest way to find out if a file will work or not is to just try it. Hopefully after you click play the video will show up on your display, but if the content is not supported you will simply get an ?Unplayable Content? message blade from the side of the screen and then be returned to the Video blade. How do I create videos that will play on my Xbox 360? Windows Movie Maker, a standard feature of Windows XPSP2, will output WMV video files compatible with the Xbox 360 console. Either use the default settings when you finish a movie and click ?Save to my computer,? or just make sure that the output video format you select shows the file type as ?Windows Media Video (WMV).? Videos will usually look best when they are closest to the original resolution that they were created with. Try to create video files at least 360 pixels high in vertical resolution in order to minimize content upscaling on the console. If you decide you want finer control of the output video file format, download a version of Windows Media Encoder (http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windowsmedia/) and then start encoding away. Optimal size and bitrate settings will vary depending on the source material you are encoding. As a general guideline though, 1.5 Mbps is a typical bitrate that should be suitable for most standard definition content, and 8 Mbps is a common bitrate for high definition content. Can I get more technical details about the kinds of files you support? WMV video files with the extension ?.wmv? are stored in a generic file container format known as ASF. ASF files can contain many different types of codecs within them. Xbox 360 supports most common WMV video codecs, as seen in the following chart: Supported Video Codecs: Name FourCC Windows Media Video 7 WMV1 Windows Media Video 8 WMV2 Windows Media Video 9 WMV3 Windows Media Video 9 Advanced Profile WVC1 There are some files with ?.wmv? extension that may play on a PC, but are unsupported on the Xbox 360 console. Windows Media Screen, Windows Media 9 Image (Photostory), and some older Microsoft codecs are unsupported, as seen in the following chart: Unsupported Codecs: Name FourCC Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V3 MP43 Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V2 MP42 Microsoft MPEG-4 Video Codec V1 MP41 Windows Media Screen V9 MSS2 Windows Media Screen V7 MSS1 Windows Media Video 9 Image WMVP Windows Media Video 9 Image v2 WVP2 ISO MPEG-4 Video V1 MP4S Anamorphic content with nonsquare pixels is currently unsupported on Xbox 360 console, and will be displayed as if the pixels were square. If you want to play such content on your console, it is recommended that you re-encode the content in a square pixel format.
The video formats that xbox 360 supports are listed below:
File Extensions: .wmv
Video Profiles: WMV7, WMV8, WMV9, VC-1 (WVC1 or WMVA) in
Xbox 360 video format - AVI
Xbox 360 supports the following for Xbox 360 video format AVI:
File Extensions: .avi, .divx
Video Profiles: MPEG-4 Part 2, Simple, Advanced Simple Profile
Xbox 360 video format - H.264
Xbox 360 supports the following for Xbox 360 video format H.264:
File Extensions: .mp4, .m4v, mp4v, .mov
Containers: MPEG-4, QuickTime
Video Profiles: Baseline, main, and high (up to Level 4.1) profiles.
Xbox 360 video format - MPEG-4
Xbox 360 supports the following for Xbox 360 video format MPEG-4:
File Extensions: .mp4, .m4v, .mp4v, .mov
Containers: MPEG-4, QuickTime
Video Profiles: Simple, **Advanced Simple Profile
If you got a video file and want to convert and put it to your Xbox 360 for playing, you have to use a xbox decoder to transcode video files to a xbox playable video formats listed above.
The program I am using is Aunsoft Video Converter which is able to convert your video to xbox WMV.
Hope it is useful.
http://www.aunsoft.com/video-converter/
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Here's a list of supported video formats for the Xbox 360:
.avi
.divx
.wmv
.mp4,
.m4v
.mp4v
.mov
Moreover, you can play Blu-ray videos on your Xbox 360, too.
Here's a guide to show you how to do this.
http://www.leawo.org/tutorial/how-to-rip-and-convert-blu-ray-to-xbox-360-with-blu-ray-to-xbox-360-ripper.html
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xbox 360 won't play a movie file from flash drive
I am sorry but that is not true, I play movies from my flash drive all the time. The only thing is that the download file needs to be a format the xbox 360 accepts and currently the only file it cannot accept is an MKV file.
i have a xbox 360 with a hard drive my friend let me borrow his hard drive to watch movies he has but i can't figure out how to do it
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