Convert DivX to WMV for the 360

by Jennie Lees { Dec 29th 2005 at 4:30PM }

If you've got a collection of DivX, Quicktime or any other form of video, and want to play them on the 360 (using Windows Media Extender), you've probably been disappointed so far. Fortunately, help is at hand in the form of a plethora of video conversion tools.

From open-source to professional level, there's conversion software out there that will tackle almost any codec and turn your video into the 360-happy WMV, MPEG-1 and MPEG-2 formats. HD Beat has discovered Videora Xbox360 Converter, a free piece of software designed to optimise any video for viewing on the 360.

Here's hoping other ways of getting video on the 360 will be discovered for those of us without Media Center Edition PCs.

[Via HDBeat; thanks, iData]

Tags: conversion, multimedia, video

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

J Low @ Dec 29th 2005 5:12PM

Yeah I too wish they'd open it up to other things.

Although besides lackluster video compatibility, I am incredibly impressed with the streaming qualities of hooking up mass storage USB devices thus far. I tried both me & my roommates digital cameras, iPods and memory cards filled with mixed media types and the 360 handled them elegantly. Real handy if you want to show people some pictures or listen to custom music without going through the hassle of ripping it to the tiny hard drive.

Don Wilson @ Dec 30th 2005 2:09AM

The Videora company is really becoming a nice suite of applications.

j005u @ Dec 30th 2005 2:54AM

You know that illegal kiosk demo disc thats floating around? Yeah, that one..

Well it can be hacked pretty esily to enable playback of any wmv.

Did I say that the discs illegal?

Roger Benningfield @ Dec 30th 2005 3:24PM

Unless Videora recently slipped an update into the 0.81 version without changing the version number, it doesn't convert anything to WMV. The only options I see are for MPEG1/2, which are pretty useless on the 360... you can view 'em, but you can't FF/rewind, and even on my wired network, "chapter skipping" results in network congestion and a locked-up 360 about 75% of the time.

Honestly, I'm about *this* close to just giving up on the extender side of the 360 and moving the Media Center to the living room.