travis' brain dump

Ok, for all you xbox 360 owners out there that use it as a media extender this one is for you. 🙂

http://www.runtime360.com/projects/transcode-360/ <- go there

In my quest for viewing DivX encoded movies on my xbox through media center I had run into much frustration. The blasted ‘ cannot play file format ‘ messages that would appear when trying to watch things I’ve encoded in DivX were really irritating me. So, what does one do? Well, you could always re-encode or convert the file to another format…  Since I prefer DivX and Microsoft simply doesnt support it on their device, Transcode was a great help.

** btw, there is a really good tool for doing conversions -> http://www.videora.com/en-us/Converter/Xbox360/index.html 

All you do is download it and install it on your media center. It will install a plugin for you into MC that you can select when preparing to play a movie. Simply hit the info button, select ‘ Transcode ‘ and the DivX file plays. Pretty awesome huh? Only catch I’ve found on Vista is I have to have an instance of Transcode loaded up on any logged in profile running in administrator mode. Not really a big issue since my MC system is also the primary tower/desktop downstairs…

It’s still got some quirks and bugs to it, but considering how easy it is to use and the fact its free, I’m not complaining one bit. So many other methods and routines are just a plain pain in the butt. So if you’re struggling with the whole DivX issue. Go give this a shot.