Help with what Xvid settings to use for playing on an Xbox ?

[darkness]

Hi,

Its seems I get problems when playing Xvids on my Xbox, but it only happens with movies I have encoded myself.. not with Xvids I have d/l'ed.

So obviously its something im doing..

The problem I get is stuttering every 5 seconds or so,. and in some cases really bad chop.. and lots of dropped frames..

I use Autodub to do all my movies, and mostly I do 2 CD rips with AC3 audio..

The main difference ive noticed between my rips and the ones I d/l is that when I right click on the Xvid and click properties, them sumary, mine say 16bit Video Sample Size, and the ones I d/l say 24 Bit Video Sample Size.. But I cant work out where to change that ..

Anyway, anyone have any idea how to encode Xvids for smooth playback on an Xbox.. any specific settings etc.. As long as I can keep the quality really high

Thanks for any help !

Cheers.

[feeky1973]

i take it at the moment youre using xbox media player to play the files right?

i have found this to be the best method to play xvid/divx as the xbox somehow sends a signal to my amp that all films are dolby digital.


are you putting the film on cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-rw cos most xbox's wont plat standard cd-r.

also the xbox is very fussy in the format used to record the disc. the latest versions of nero have an option for xbox compatibility, but i always use record now max.

i personally use dvd2svcd to encode my files to mpeg2 format and these work great on my xbox

if none of these work just ask again

feeky

[darkness]

>take it at the moment youre using xbox media player to play the files right?

Yep, XB Media Player 2.4

>i have found this to be the best method to play xvid/divx as the xbox somehow sends a signal to my amp that all films are dolby digital.

I agree, Having a nice quality Xvid with the AC3 audio is great,. true DD 5.1 sound.. I love it !

>are you putting the film on cd-rw,dvd-r,dvd-rw cos most xbox's wont plat standard cd-r.

Im putting them on CDR.. I have a Samsung Drive that reads CDR's perfectly..

>also the xbox is very fussy in the format used to record the disc. the latest versions of nero have an option for xbox compatibility, but i always use record now max.

Yes, thats something I should try is UDF File format, it might help.. But XB Media Player 2.4 has an ISO 9600 option, but Ill still try it.

>i personally use dvd2svcd to encode my files to mpeg2 format and these work great on my xbox

Yea,, but can you get the DD5.1 audio from an Mpeg2 ??

[feeky1973]

a lot of the xvid files you find are about 700 mb total size, these normally have only mp3 audio (use gspot to check what audio a file has).

i have found the best way to convert these is using sonic foundry soft encode and convert to dolby digital 2.0 but with added surround so you get a really good quality pro logic signal. i have done some files this way and you can hardly tell its not 5.1

i dont think i can really help you much further because my method is putting onto dvd-r

have you tried just streaming files to your xbox using relax. that way you can just keep all files on your computer h/d and your xbox can play them fine. i put an extra 80 gig h/d in my pc for this purpose.

sorry couldnt help further

feeky