Video on the 360

[leowyatt]

I thought I'd put this thread together for us poor schmucks who don't have machines fast enough to transcode on the fly.

Since I discovered newsgroups around new year I've been plagued with problems getting videos to play in the 360. I'm consistently downloading mkv files which we know the 360 won't play natively so I have to keep encoding them into different formats so it will play them.

Initially I was using a program called WinAVI Video converter in conjunction with the ccp codec pack for mkv files. This worked well but I have just discovered a great app which is free and is a nice all in one solution. It's called the Videora Xbox 360 Converter. I've just thrown 2 MKV files at it and it's converted with no problems and takes on average around an 3 hours to convert a 720p MKV file into something I can watch on the 360. So a big from me.