Xbox360 won't play Ripped DVDs?

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roguerower

roguerower

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I have my Xbox 360 set up as an extender for my PC to play my ripped DVD collection. When I tried to watch my movies though it came up as saying that the file type wasn't supported. Can anyone point me to a work around? I'm using Windows 7 RC and a Jasper 360.
 
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gar655

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You are streaming them? If so the 360 supports a "limited" amount of codecs, namely some form of mpeg4 and no 5.1 surround. 2.1 only. Go to the xbox website for a list of support codecs.

If your ripped DVDs are still in mpeg2 you'll need to convert them. Handbrake has 360 presets and it's free.
 
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The beta version of PS3 Media server does have support for the xBOX360 (See forums for link)
http://code.google.com/p/ps3mediaserver/

Haven't tried it with the XBOX360, but the other functions work great (including playing from multiple .vob files)

If it works it would save a conversion process and quality loss.
 
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nsafreak

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You should be able to play them using Windows Media Center not sure why it isn't working. You may want to convert them to standard mpeg files, will play just fine then.
 
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Originally posted by: nsafreak
You should be able to play them using Windows Media Center not sure why it isn't working. You may want to convert them to standard mpeg files, will play just fine then.
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They play in WMC but they won't play on the Xbox 360.

Originally posted by: vi edit
my movies + transcode 360
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I have heard that it works for Vista but not for Win 7. True/False?
 
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People! In order for the OP to use the 360 as "the" extender, the files need to be streamed in avi or mpeg4 IN 2.1 sound. Nothing else will work. Period. What's so hard about downloading Handbrake, throwing a bunch of the ripped movies into the queue, go to bed, get up and you have your movies done. Plus they're only about 1.5GBs and they look just as good as the DVDShrink versions when played back.

The only bummer is the loss of 5.1 surround.

 
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Which is a big bummer seeing as how I have a 5.1 system. I might as well just buy an HDMI cable and run that to my reciever. There's nothing hard about handbrake, but before I go with that I want to exhaust all other options.
 
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Originally posted by: gar655
People! In order for the OP to use the 360 as "the" extender, the files need to be streamed in avi or mpeg4 IN 2.1 sound. Nothing else will work. Period. What's so hard about downloading Handbrake, throwing a bunch of the ripped movies into the queue, go to bed, get up and you have your movies done. Plus they're only about 1.5GBs and they look just as good as the DVDShrink versions when played back.

The only bummer is the loss of 5.1 surround.
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PS3 media server transcodes on the fly...per their website (sometimes just changing the container and no loss of quality (I.e. DVD ISO images))
# Real-time video transcoding of MKV/FLV/OGM/AVI, etc.
# Direct streaming of DTS / DTS-HD core to the receiver
# Remux H264/MPEG2 video and all audio tracks to AC3/DTS/LPCM in real time with tsMuxer when H264 is PS3/Level4.1 compliant
# Full seeking support when transcoding
# DVD ISOs images / VIDEO_TS Folder transcoder

I'm not sure how it handles sound going to the xBOX360 to the PS3 it does 5.1 with no issues. No, 1.5GB file will not look the same as a 6GB DVD ISO...especially when you blow it up to 100" as I have to do.
 
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Originally posted by: gar655
People! In order for the OP to use the 360 as "the" extender, the files need to be streamed in avi or mpeg4 IN 2.1 sound. Nothing else will work. Period. What's so hard about downloading Handbrake, throwing a bunch of the ripped movies into the queue, go to bed, get up and you have your movies done. Plus they're only about 1.5GBs and they look just as good as the DVDShrink versions when played back.
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Not to be an ass, but you have no idea what you're talking about. There are two modes that the 360 can play media in:
1. Dashboard (but with caveat!)
2. Windows Media Center extender

If you use the WMC-extender functionality, you can most certainly stream MPEG-2 with DD-5.1.

If you use the dashboard, you can burn MPEG-2 with DD-5.1 to a DVD (or copy it to a USB disk) as a file and play it from there, or at least you could last time I checked. You cannot stream MPEG-2 to the dashboard!
 
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gar655

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Maybe so as to the WMC extender- but "I" could never get it to work. So now after dumping Windows and going Mac (once you go Mac you never go back :) I find it's far easier to stream using the dashboard and an $18 program called Rivet.

And as for PQ, I have no complaints regarding the mpeg 4 conversions on my 50" plasma.

 
roguerower

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Originally posted by: erwos
Originally posted by: gar655
People! In order for the OP to use the 360 as "the" extender, the files need to be streamed in avi or mpeg4 IN 2.1 sound. Nothing else will work. Period. What's so hard about downloading Handbrake, throwing a bunch of the ripped movies into the queue, go to bed, get up and you have your movies done. Plus they're only about 1.5GBs and they look just as good as the DVDShrink versions when played back.
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Not to be an ass, but you have no idea what you're talking about. There are two modes that the 360 can play media in:
1. Dashboard (but with caveat!)
2. Windows Media Center extender

If you use the WMC-extender functionality, you can most certainly stream MPEG-2 with DD-5.1.

If you use the dashboard, you can burn MPEG-2 with DD-5.1 to a DVD (or copy it to a USB disk) as a file and play it from there, or at least you could last time I checked. You cannot stream MPEG-2 to the dashboard!
Click to expand...

So what's the best program to turn a ripped DVD structure (i.e. stripped down to just movie with english subtitles and 5.1 sound) into MPEG-2?

Would it make sense to turn them all (~170) into mpeg-2 and delete the Ripped DVDs?
 
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coreyb

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convertx2dvd I think it's called. It's what I used to use to burn movies.
 
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erwos

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Originally posted by: roguerower
Originally posted by: erwos
Originally posted by: gar655
People! In order for the OP to use the 360 as "the" extender, the files need to be streamed in avi or mpeg4 IN 2.1 sound. Nothing else will work. Period. What's so hard about downloading Handbrake, throwing a bunch of the ripped movies into the queue, go to bed, get up and you have your movies done. Plus they're only about 1.5GBs and they look just as good as the DVDShrink versions when played back.
Click to expand...
Not to be an ass, but you have no idea what you're talking about. There are two modes that the 360 can play media in:
1. Dashboard (but with caveat!)
2. Windows Media Center extender

If you use the WMC-extender functionality, you can most certainly stream MPEG-2 with DD-5.1.

If you use the dashboard, you can burn MPEG-2 with DD-5.1 to a DVD (or copy it to a USB disk) as a file and play it from there, or at least you could last time I checked. You cannot stream MPEG-2 to the dashboard!
Click to expand...

So what's the best program to turn a ripped DVD structure (i.e. stripped down to just movie with english subtitles and 5.1 sound) into MPEG-2?

Would it make sense to turn them all (~170) into mpeg-2 and delete the Ripped DVDs?
Click to expand...
VOB files are basically MPEG-2 already - they just support more stuff than MPEG-2. There should be programs out there to let you convert your VOBs to "real" MPEG-2 pretty easily.
 
mc866

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Originally posted by: roguerower
Originally posted by: erwos
Originally posted by: gar655
People! In order for the OP to use the 360 as "the" extender, the files need to be streamed in avi or mpeg4 IN 2.1 sound. Nothing else will work. Period. What's so hard about downloading Handbrake, throwing a bunch of the ripped movies into the queue, go to bed, get up and you have your movies done. Plus they're only about 1.5GBs and they look just as good as the DVDShrink versions when played back.
Click to expand...
Not to be an ass, but you have no idea what you're talking about. There are two modes that the 360 can play media in:
1. Dashboard (but with caveat!)
2. Windows Media Center extender

If you use the WMC-extender functionality, you can most certainly stream MPEG-2 with DD-5.1.

If you use the dashboard, you can burn MPEG-2 with DD-5.1 to a DVD (or copy it to a USB disk) as a file and play it from there, or at least you could last time I checked. You cannot stream MPEG-2 to the dashboard!
Click to expand...

So what's the best program to turn a ripped DVD structure (i.e. stripped down to just movie with english subtitles and 5.1 sound) into MPEG-2?

Would it make sense to turn them all (~170) into mpeg-2 and delete the Ripped DVDs?
Click to expand...

I don't know if there is a best program to convert. everyone has their own preference but I do know that the 360 will natively stream Xvid/5.1 Ac3 .avi files from the dashboard(not the media center extender). That being said I've been ripping all of my DVD's with fairuse wizard using the Xvid container with 5.1 AC3 audio to stream back to my 360. Xvid doesn't have the best compression or quality compared to other codecs but it will stream to any of my PC's and also my 360 which is what I was looking for.

I've also had good luck with DVDFab for removing menu's and converting, others seem to really like handbrake, but I haven't used it much.

 
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