Barry Dobson » Xbox http://www.barrydobson.com Web Development And Beyond. Wed, 13 May 2009 12:03:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Xbox 360 DivX Only Plays Audio http://www.barrydobson.com/2008/01/16/xbox-360-divx-only-plays-audio/ http://www.barrydobson.com/2008/01/16/xbox-360-divx-only-plays-audio/#comments Wed, 16 Jan 2008 08:09:24 +0000 Barry Dobson http://www.barrydobson.com/2008/01/16/xbox-360-divx-only-plays-audio/

Since the fall 07 update, the Xbox 360 now has the ability to play DivX/Xvid files through the media blade on the dashboard. This was probably one of the best features to be added to the dashboard.

I use this feature a lot but recently I came across a couple of videos that would play fine in WMP but when played on the Xbox would be audio with no picture. I thought this was a limitation on the part of the way the Xbox does its decoding.

After a bit of digging around the web I re-read the December 2007 Xbox 360 video playback FAQ and discovered that this is a problem with PAL and VGA playback on the Xbox. The good news is that there is a fix, and it actually works. Check out the article:

40. When trying to play 25 or 50 fps content, I don’t get any video over VGA

on the FAQ for details on the fix.

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