Simple enough, right? Well I wish it were simple. I'm trying to play a large, 8gb mkv file with x264 encoding on my 360. Can this be done without it buffering every couple of minutes (tversity setup)?
The setup I have is a 2.4Ghz quad core, XP, 3gb ram, and a linksys wireless router with speedbooster (http://www.amazon.com/Linksys-WRT54GS-Wireless-G-Broadband-SpeedBooster/dp/B0001D3K8A). I have my xbox connected to the router via ethernet cable, but I'm not sure if I have the right ports open or not (the xbox does play movies and music from my pc just fine, as long as they are small, so I assume I don't need to open specific ports). Let me know if you need more info about my setup.
The big issue is not whether or not the xbox can play .mkv files...I got it to play them with tversity running on the pc, but with little to no success for consistency and without buffering every couple of minutes. Even smaller files will give me trouble if they are of HD quality.
I read about GotSent and think that may solve my problem because it turns the files into .mp4 (more suitable for the 360 and removes the need for tversity) as well as cutting the one large file into 4gb files as the 360 "cannot play anything larger than 4gb."
Does anyone know if you can take a 8gb .mkv video and watch it in all it's HD glory on the 360 over the home network with the above method, or any other method? If not, can I play the videos on my 360 on a usb hard drive?
None of that is going to help. The truth is that you are decoding an hd movie into a watchable format for your 360, and currently anything like that is not possible on the fly, unless your running a super computer or something. If it is buffering often, I guess you could leave the room and wait for the trans-code, but as of now no dice.
Originally posted by Matt1039: Simple enough, right? Well I wish it were simple. I'm trying to play a large, 8gb mkv file with x264 encoding on my 360. Can this be done without it buffering every couple of minutes (tversity setup)?
The setup I have is a 2.4Ghz quad core, XP, 3gb ram, and a linksys wireless router with speedbooster (http://www.amazon.com/Linksys-WRT54GS-Wireless-G-Broadband-SpeedBooster/dp/B0001D3K8A). I have my xbox connected to the router via ethernet cable, but I'm not sure if I have the right ports open or not (the xbox does play movies and music from my pc just fine, as long as they are small, so I assume I don't need to open specific ports). Let me know if you need more info about my setup.
The big issue is not whether or not the xbox can play .mkv files...I got it to play them with tversity running on the pc, but with little to no success for consistency and without buffering every couple of minutes. Even smaller files will give me trouble if they are of HD quality.
I read about GotSent and think that may solve my problem because it turns the files into .mp4 (more suitable for the 360 and removes the need for tversity) as well as cutting the one large file into 4gb files as the 360 "cannot play anything larger than 4gb."
Does anyone know if you can take a 8gb .mkv video and watch it in all it's HD glory on the 360 over the home network with the above method, or any other method? If not, can I play the videos on my 360 on a usb hard drive?
you can plug a hard drive into a USB port on a 360 and watch videos from it, I play HD wmv files on my 360 with TVersity all the time without error and I have no where near the computer you do. When it comes to MKV files I usually convert them with MKV2VOB and watch them on my PS3, so idk why you are having problems watching hd videos with TVersity because mine is flawless
Thanks for your help. I tried GotSent version 2.6 beta last night and it succesfully split my files into less than 4gb and converted them into .mp4. After that, Tversity was able to stream them just fine! An alternative was to rename the extension to .avi and use windows media player to stream...and that went well also, but I know streaming has to be losing something along the way.
I'd rather play the movies from a hard drive though so there will be absolutely no chances of lagging during the movie. I'm going to try playing from an 8gb flash drive tonight. Is there any type of formatting I shoud know about?
