DivX/ Xvid Support for 360

AntiRip

On my vista laptop an error keeps coming up saying something like COM SURROGATE PROBLEM and windows needs to close. Does anybody else have this issue? Is it something to do with vista and the divx codecs not being compatible?

On my XP laptop everything seems to be fine for a few minutes and then an error comes up saying WMP11 needs to shut down and if I want a report. Very annoying

AdMMM

Both of your problems are related I think to currupt media files and/or incompatible codecs.

Try disabling the thumbnail view in your folders and see if that works and updating to the latest codecs.

AntiRip

|.Murderer.| wrote: »

Both of your problems are related I think to currupt media files and/or incompatible codecs.

Try disabling the thumbnail view in your folders and see if that works and updating to the latest codecs.

thanks =|.Murderer.| i have downloaded the most recent codecs. Vista is a b1tch anyway so I'm not going to stream from this. XP should be alot more stable probably a corrupted file somewhere. Where to find that though in a 500GB external HDD

AdMMM

My only advice would be to share one folder at a time until you get it to crash. Or you could share a few gigs at once and when it crashes you'd know which area to concentrate on.

AntiRip

|.Murderer.| wrote: »

My only advice would be to share one folder at a time until you get it to crash. Or you could share a few gigs at once and when it crashes you'd know which area to concentrate on.

thanks m8, will try that when I get home

Pity it doesn't play .mkv files, that would have been sweet:(

Auvers

right I got the update & divx works fine from cd/dvd media and a usb key, but will divx work with the media centre extender? what portable h/d can I use? I tried two already but they would not initialize with the 360.

mossym

won't work with the extender. have to use the dashboard itself.

AdMMM

Auvers wrote: »

right I got the update & divx works fine from cd/dvd media and a usb key, but will divx work with the media centre extender? what portable h/d can I use? I tried two already but they would not initialize with the 360.

The HDD needs to be formatted using FAT32 unfortunately.

Auvers

|.Murderer.| wrote: »

The HDD needs to be formatted using FAT32 unfortunately.

ahh balls what a load of sh1te and not being able to play divx (without streaming) in the extender is also sh1te

LegacyUser

if i rent a new game . will it have the update . what game would i rent?

AdMMM

robdcu wrote: »

if i rent a new game . will it have the update . what game would i rent?

You can download the update from here and burn it to a cd.

the_god_swan

|.Murderer.| wrote: »

You can download the update from here and burn it to a cd.

When MS upload the 12-07 iso that is.

LegacyUser

robdcu wrote: »

if i rent a new game . will it have the update . what game would i rent?

so can ido this?? really want the update

Sad Professor

New games will have the update eventually. But it'll probably be at least a month or so.

LegacyUser

**** so how long do ya think the one on the net will take??

BloodSugarSex

|.Murderer.| wrote: »

Do you have File and Printer sharing enabled on your PC?

i do indeed

Varik

Only reason ms is doing this is cuz sony are and the only reason they are is due to home and they then worked out H.264/MPEG-4 AVC will take too long for the machine to encode and send, divx is faster encode times.

But as for the 360 can it not use H.264 way better than divx or xvid for the same size.


yea H.264 you rock

finaly most pirates stuff is in xvid(free) not divx(legaly not free)

Basq

Varik wrote: »

Only reason ms is doing this is cuz sony are and the only reason they are is due to home and they then worked out H.264/MPEG-4 AVC will take too long for the machine to encode and send, divx is faster encode times.

But as for the 360 can it not use H.264 way better than divx or xvid for the same size.


yea H.264 you rock

finaly most pirates stuff is in xvid(free) not divx(legaly not free)

That made 0% sense to me!

Auvers

basquille wrote: »

That made 0% sense to me!

your not the only one

TheDoc

yeah im with you guys on that one

AdMMM

Varik wrote: »

Only reason ms is doing this is cuz sony are and the only reason they are is due to home and they then worked out H.264/MPEG-4 AVC will take too long for the machine to encode and send, divx is faster encode times.

But as for the 360 can it not use H.264 way better than divx or xvid for the same size.


yea H.264 you rock

finaly most pirates stuff is in xvid(free) not divx(legaly not free)

Microsoft also have millions invested into their own proprietary formats. Now that it's become clear that they can't sway the masses to use them, they've had no choice but to support DivX.

Regarding DivX having faster encode times, this is true, but no longer must we transcode our videos on the fly using programmes like TVersity so I don't really understand what point you're trying to make.

Finally, the reason why XviD is perceived as being the stuff of pirates is because XviD is actually more efficient than DivX. Go back a few years and the majority of released files would have been encoded with DivX.

Thanks for your insight though...

MiCr0

i've got a 4gb usb key, fat32 formated.
i've copied a divx avi onto the root directory on the usb.

any idea will the 360 play it?
or am i don't something stupid?

if i browse through the video menu, and try to change source, the usb option is greyed out.

any ideas?

thanks,
MiCr0

PowerHouseDan

Have to agree all my HD movies are in mkv format.

AntiRip wrote: »

thanks m8, will try that when I get home

Pity it doesn't play .mkv files, that would have been sweet:(

BloodSugarSex

MiCr0 wrote: »

i've got a 4gb usb key, fat32 formated.
i've copied a divx avi onto the root directory on the usb.

any idea will the 360 play it?
or am i don't something stupid?

if i browse through the video menu, and try to change source, the usb option is greyed out.

any ideas?

thanks,
MiCr0

do you have the file in the privacy zone on the usb key? i had the same problem so i made the public zone bigger and copied the file there and it worked grand

keithkk16

Anyone ere having trouble gettin there creative zen to play vids on d xbox ? I cant get it 2 work. It will play music and show pictures no problem but, the xbox wont even recongnise videos on the zen anyone know how to solve this problem ?

Sparky

Just to note that I have succesfully played Hi-def Xvid with 5.1 AC3 on an Xbox 360.

Ultimate.Factory.Ferrari.HDTV.xvid.720p


Some Hi-def files will not however play

MiCr0

BloodSugarSex wrote: »

do you have the file in the privacy zone on the usb key? i had the same problem so i made the public zone bigger and copied the file there and it worked grand

can you explain further?
this makes no sense to me :-<

yrrag1974

This has got to be the best update ever!

Am currently watching Casino Royale on my XBox 360 in Hi Def streaming from my PC.

No more TVersity, MCE Encoder.

Happy days.

Thank you Microsoft.

tman

MiCr0 wrote: »

can you explain further?
this makes no sense to me :-<

Beats me...
You could try creating a folder on the memory stick and moving the video into that, and maybe try sticking more than 1 video on there just in case it's ignoring the other one due to a dodgy encoder being used...

Used mine for watching a load of porn on a memory stick earlier (for testing purposes of course...)
damn handy update:)

Pacifico

Forgive my stupidity but.....how do you stream from your PC?