Few Questions about media playback on XBOX 360


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Hi , I have a Xbox with XBMC installed, i dont use my xbox for gaming as such but i do like using it as a Media Center & it does a wonderful job of it . but now im plannig to dump the Xbox & buy myself a brand new Xbox 360 , so can anyone guide me that what are the media playing prospects of Xbox 360, i know that it plays Dvds just fine but i want to know that whether it will play my home videos encoded in WMV as it is from a DVD disk & also whether itll play stiff like DivX or Xvid or do these have to be converted to Wmv first.

Thanks to all in advance

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The 360 will play WMV from a Media Center PC, and possibly from Windows Media Connect/Zune/WMP11. DivX, Xvid and other formats may be possible with a program like Transcode360 for Windows Media Center.

I am not sure about just placing WMV files on DVD, though. We usually just convert everything to DVD and play directly on a 360/DVD player. This saves the other PCs in the house from doing extra work.

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Yeah it will work on the .WMV side of things. Just write the files to a CD-RW or DVD-RW or eventually HD-DVD RW and it will run (doesn't have to be an RW disc but probably would be better off). You might want to try streaming over a network though and use TVersity as far as the Xvid and DivX side of things goes.

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thanks for all the info , so can someone tell me in advance that what all file formats i can play directly from my DVD

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