US XBOX owner confirmation please

[Gees]

I live in UK and my son in US wants some home video and cartoons from TV transferred onto DVD to view in his Xbox.

These DVDs would be authored region-free.

Can anyone who owns a US Xbox confirm any of the following:

- does an Xbox accept LPCM audio? (I am currently authoring lpcm for him instead of mp2 for PAL discs I make for myself, thinking that was correct.)

- will a US Xbox play PAL version discs - made with LPCM OR AC3 audio if neccessary? (I have read claims on sites that say as long as the region is correct - or "0" -, that Xbox plays both formats. This would save me loads of conversion time, if it's true!)

Thanks in advance for any help.

[dcsos]

The X-BOX will not play pal encoded DVD files
but more importantly EVERY few thousand X-BOXES are different..
Many have differing DVD-ROM drives inside so its a crap shoot..do a test and send him that first....
but it may handle PCM audio on an NTSC title
https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVDnameid=876&Search=Search&#comments
there are thirty five commnts here on the features and operation of the box

[Gees]

Thanks for the reply, dcsos.

I did read through each of the Xbox player comments and searched and read up on every spec, review, etc. site I could find. Just still have not seen mention of th LPCM factor. And I've read so many comments that contradict each other.

I understand your point on each box differing.

I'm hoping someone can confirm that LPCM works on their particular box to keep test discs, postage fees and timeframe to a minimum.

Thanks again.

[dcsos]

So if you can't test,
RE ENCODE to NTSC with MPEG audio if you can't do .ac3 at home and it'll play in any of 'em
DON"T use DVD+R ....use -R

[deleeuw]

You can make ANY X-Box play both NTSC and PAL DVDs, and make it region-free as well. Just install a mod chip and put DVD-X version 2 on it (and XBox Media Player if you want to play .mpg, .mpeg, divX, .avi, etc.) and you're all set.