Batch Video Converting

[AeroEngy]

I recently enabled media library sharing between my Windows XP Pro system with Media Player 11 and my Xbox360 over my wireless LAN. Well the 360 cannot play any of my library of Divx videos. It only supports WMV, MPG and a few others. So I am looking for any recommendations for a video converter that can convert mulitple Divx/Xvids to WMV at once. It will be painfully slow but it seems like it would be better to let it crunch on a couple dozen files then having to sit here and do one at a time.

I am a bit of a noob when it comes to encoding/decoding video so bare with me.

I did some Google searches but I haven't found anything that seems reputable or that someone recommended. Any help will be appreciated. Thanks.

 

[Yreka]

I ended up just doing this.
rather than converting all my movies.

Every time I tried to convert divx to WMV, it looked horrible. Maybe someone has a better method, but for now it gets the job done.

 

[AeroEngy]

It looks like that might be for Windows Media Center only. I am running XP Pro so that might not be an option. Which OS are you using?

I am trying out a program called Encode360 setting to WMV 9 codec with single pass Constant Bit Rate set at 2500kb/s for video an 160kb/s for audio (the 802.11g setting)and it doesn't look that bad. The files are much bigger than they were encoded with Divx and it takes a long time to convert ...... but it works.

Is it just me or is it retarded that the Xbox360 does not support Divx video when you can buy relatively cheap hand held Divx players.

Thanks for the input.

 

[Yreka]

Yeah, you do need media center, sorry I missed that the first time through. I was running XP PRO, I just recently switched over to MCE to play around with the XB360 stuff.

I agree, it sucks real bad the XB360 cannot natively decode divx. Seems like it would be really easy to do. I'm guessing M$ did it on purpose to make the studios happy. Helps foster good relations so they can offer downloadable content on XBlive.