Xbox360 får divx / xvid støtte - fall update

[Dr.Gonzo]

The Xbox 360 firmware sees two major updates a year—in the Spring and the Fall. This year's Fall update is just about upon us. On Tuesday December 4th, Microsoft will unleash a flurry of new features and small tweaks to the way the Xbox 360 operates. Here are the highlights.

 

AVI Support—The Xbox 360 can now play files in an AVI container (or .divx container) that uses the MPEG-4 Part 2, Simple & Advanced Simple Profile. The max bitrate for these files is 5 Mbps with resolutions up to 1280x720 up to 30fps. Audio in AVI files must be either Dolby Digital 2 or 5.1 channel or MP3. In layman's terms—most of the DivX or Xvid files users have should fit under these conditions and play back. Hurray! DivX support (mostly)!

 

 

Parental Timer—You've always been able to lock out games of a certain rating on a "child account" on the Xbox 360, and limit who they can speak to and hear in online chat. Now you can limit play time as well.

 

Xbox Originals—A game download store to download original Xbox 1 games, sort of like you download Xbox Live Arcade titles. The first ones available will be Crash Bandicoot: Wrath of Cortex, Crimson Skies: High Road to Revenge, Halo, Fable, Fuzion Frenzy, and Psychonauts. Each costs 1200 MS Points ($15 in the U.S.). More will be added over time. If you don't have Psychonauts, now is the time.

 

XBLA Greatest Hits—This is sort of like the Platinum games in retail…they're best-selling Xbox Live Arcade games that will be singled out for permanent discount. The list will start off with Bankshot Billiards and Lumines Live (800 points), as well as Marble Blast Ultra, Small Arms, and Zuma Deluxe (400 points). Lumines is a steal at $10.

 

Enhanced Online Profiles—You'll be able to look up friends of friends now, in sort of a social-networking-way. You can also now put your real name in your profile (so people don't get confused by your clever gamertag) and write an expanded bio about yourself.

 

Inside Xbox—It's sort of an RSS news feed from Xbox Central Headquarters on your Xbox 360 dashboard. It'll tell you about what's new in Xbox land, promotions, game updates, whatever Microsoft wants to push out to the masses.

 

New Dashboard Layout—The "twist" navigation so loved on the Zune will make its way to many parts of the Xbox 360. You'll change video categories or game categories in areas like the Video Marketplace or Xbox Live Arcade by pressing left or right.

 

Those are the big ones, but there are lots of little things. The Xbox team has a blog post detailing exactly which video formats work, it's definitely worth checking out. If you just want a huge list of every little change coming next week, you'll want this other blog post by the team. There's a ton of stuff listed there, like "Improve transition speed of blades", several HDMI improvements, "Added support for Album/Video artwork larger than 500KB" and dozens of other minute details.

 

Of course, 1Up has lots of Fall Dashboard Details including video and screenshots

Endret 1. desember 2007 av Dr.Gonzo

[phewBAR]

Kanskje på tide å konvertere den eksterne 250GB HDD'n til FAT32 nå da å rydde plass til den ved siden av 360'n!

Så skal alle disse DVD boksene mine over i den lille fine LaCie disken!

 

 

Bye Bye VLC360!

[Pazleet]

Så utrolig deilig! Nå ble jeg glad:-)

[Aleksander-yo]

Hvordan funker divx opplegget? Kan jeg spille Divx gjennom Media Center og få det opp på boksen? Eller er det DVD-er med divx filer på?

 

Dårlig formulert spørsmål men dere skjønner vel..

[RRhoads]

Hvordan funker divx opplegget? Kan jeg spille Divx gjennom Media Center og få det opp på boksen? Eller er det DVD-er med divx filer på?

 

Dårlig formulert spørsmål men dere skjønner vel..

det går an å streame, hvis det var det du lurte på

[Hulick]

Var det ikke så mye snakk om at PS3 skulle få dette? Så endte altså 360 opp med å få det først?

[KjellSpell]

https://www.diskusjon.no/index.php?showtopic=861905

[iStephano]

Det som er dritt med FAT32 er at den ikke leser filer som er større enn 4GB.. Jeg må i alle fall konvertere alle mine filer slik dem kommer under 4Gb..

[Kjeksmestern]

Er det ikke lurere å bare dele opp filmene da?

[kewell79]

I've seen a few guides knocking around that serve the purpose of getting past the 4GB file size limit for playback on the Xbox 360 on external storage devices - other than streaming direct from PC...

 

They're all needlessly complicated so this will be short.

 

Problem : Xbox 360 doesn't recognise files over 4GB in size when the storage device is formatted as FAT32 (The only "windows" formatted type partitions it will read)

 

Solution : Format it with a Mac type file system (HFS+)

 

Here's how...

 

1. Windows cannot perform this task, so you will need some 3rd party software, namely a program called "Macdrive 7". Its a simply little program, you just install it - and use your common sense....

 

 

2. Once installed, Restart your computer.

 

3. Connect your external hard drive\storage device to your computer - make sure there's nothing useful on it right now cos you will be formatting it in a moment.

 

4. Start MacDrive 7, Start->Programs->MacDrive 7->Get Started With MacDrive 7.

 

5. Click "Format or Repair Mac Disks", then "Modify Mac Volumes"

 

6. Select your drive you want to use with the 360. Click "Initialize", Then click the refresh button (2 arrows next to the initialze button) then click the format button.

 

7. Chose the HFS+ file system

 

DONE!

Endret 2. desember 2007 av kewell79

[RoninMasao]

For å komme rundt et problem med en MS box, så må en ty til en MAC løsning..

 

Oh, the Irony!

[iStephano]

Så.. jeg som har mac kan formatere disken i det du skrivde her og da vil den lese disker som er større enn 4Gb.. yheah!

 

Men denne fall update, vil den og lese mkv filer?

[Bertelsen]

Divx var ikke mye å juble for, sånn jeg skjønner det fungerer det ikke igjennom Media Center. Da er jeg egentlig like langt.

[Bad_Byte]

mkv er bare en kontainer så selve video/audio delen kan være whatever.

 

First, it is essential to clarify exactly "What an Audio/Video container is", to avoid any misunderstandings:

* It is NOT a video or audio compression format (video codec)

* It is an envelope for which there can be many audio, video and subtitles streams, allowing the user to store a complete movie or CD in a single file.

 

Så en mkv kan være tricky

Endret 2. desember 2007 av Bad_Byte

[kewell79]

Divx var ikke mye å juble for, sånn jeg skjønner det fungerer det ikke igjennom Media Center. Da er jeg egentlig like langt.

 

Skjønner ikke helt den tanke gangen

[Kjeksmestern]

Divx var ikke mye å juble for, sånn jeg skjønner det fungerer det ikke igjennom Media Center. Da er jeg egentlig like langt.

 

Skjønner ikke helt den tanke gangen

Vel det samme om man bruker WMP11 eller Media Center?

[kewell79]

Divx/xvid gjennom Dashboard gjør at 100% får tilgang. Gjennom Media Center senkes den prosenten ganske mye, ikke alle som har XP MC eller VISTA

[Hagforce]

Så nå kan en altså legge 1080p filmer i nesten hviket som helst format direkte på portabel HDD og spille av ved å plugge den i USB porten på 360n?

 

[Bertelsen]

Divx/xvid gjennom Dashboard gjør at 100% får tilgang. Gjennom Media Center senkes den prosenten ganske mye, ikke alle som har XP MC eller VISTA

 

Mente at man ikke kan streame DivX igjennom XP MC, eller Vista, men kun igjennom dashboard.

 

Tar jeg feil?

[kewell79]

Divx/xvid gjennom Dashboard gjør at 100% får tilgang. Gjennom Media Center senkes den prosenten ganske mye, ikke alle som har XP MC eller VISTA

 

Mente at man ikke kan streame DivX igjennom XP MC, eller Vista, men kun igjennom dashboard.

 

Tar jeg feil?

 

 

 

Det stemmer jo det, om du tenker via 360 media center

Endret 2. desember 2007 av kewell79