To Convert Avi before streaming to xbox?

[sandals99]

Hi there,

I am new to the scene and I have downloaded a couple of avi files for a movie. They play quite well on my pc monitor. What i do is transfer these avi files to my xbox harddrive, and from there i play them on my tv (61" projection). Now i can understand that because of the size of the tv, small imperfections in the avi files will be much more noticeable. But when i play the avi files on the tv, its pretty awful. So my question is, do i need to convert or encode these avi files before i play them on the xbox? I really don't need to burn them into vcd's because i don't need the physical cd, i just transfer the files onto the xbox hard drive. Maybe i need to go throught a conversion process? any help is much appreciated.

Thanks

[KingJohn]

No conversion will improve it for viewing at that size
Any conversion will make it worce anyway !

Only Download DVD rips !!

[sandals99]

thanks King John, what file extension are dvd rips usually in? mpg?

thanks

[KingJohn]

No, Mostly AVI and mostly good old DivX 3.11 Alpha (Low motion) audio is sometimes AC3 and sometimes MP2, most DVD rips are around 700MB +..

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