Play Divx Movies on your Xbox 360

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One of the flaws of the Xbox 360 is the inability to playback divx movies on it. Microsoft might have left it out intentionally to push their own wmv format or avoid that the Xbox 360 would be used as the universal media center like the original Xbox with the (unofficial) Xbox media center was able to do.

The only working way of playing divx movies on the Xbox 360 would be to stream divx content from your computer to the xbox which gets encoded in real time to the supported wmv format. This is indeed not a perfect solution and it puts some strains on the streaming computer.

If you still want to evaluate this option you need the following tools:

Windows Media Player 11
TVersity Media Server
ffdshow
The following excerpt was taken from the Tversity guide to test if everything is working fine for Xbox 360 users:

Testing a UPnP A/V / DLNA Device (including the Xbox 360)

The media server should automatically be discovered by your UPnP / DLNA media player. Some players do this discovery each time they are turned on, others need to be explicitly put in a discovery mode. If this is the case for your player, please put your player in this mode. If you are using the Xbox 360, it will discover TVersity when you set it to access music or photos from a computer. Please refer to this Troubleshooting section if you are having difficulties with automatic discovery.
As the media player discovers the TVersity server you should see the TVersity Media Server appearing on your display. At that same time the server is discovering the make and model of your media player so that it can better serve it. The TVersity media server can discover automatically many different devices, however if your device is not on the list of automatically discovered devices you may need to manually set your device make and model from the TVersity GUI (if your device does not appear at all in our list of devices, chances are that it will still work if it indeed supports the UPnP AV or DLNA standard and so you need to select from the list a device that has a similar set of capabilities to the one you are using, in terms of the media formats it supports).
At this point the media library is still empty since you havenÂ’t yet shared any media, however you will be able to access online content from the TVersity content guides. Use your remote to navigate to Audio and then to TVersity Audio Guide and you should see a list of Internet radio stations that are included in your media library for demonstration purposes. Click on any of them and after a few seconds (the time it takes to buffer some data off the Net for playback) you should be able to listen to the radio station on your Stereo/TV. At this point you can pause the station, rewind and then fast forward it, despite the fact that it is streaming live, because the TVersity server comes with built in support for time shifting.
Xbox 360 users, will not be able to navigate the entire media hierarchy provided by TVersity since the device has been designed to access only specific portions of oneÂ’s media library. In order to overcome this, TVersity will show under saved playlists not only your music playlists but also Internet podcasts. If you wish to access Internet radio stations you need to place them in a playlist. At this point, please set the Xbox to access music from a computer, navigate to saved playlists, select the TVersity Audio Feed and play one of the radio stations that are listed there. Unlike music, Internet photos will be accessible via the standard Xbox 360 interface since TVersity is extending the folder structure on the 360 to include them.
Congratulations! You have successfully installed the server and used it to play online content on your UPnP / DLNA device.
Now it is just a matter of adding divx movies to the database of TVersity and use your Xbox 360 to view them.

http://www.ghacks.net/2007/02/09/play-divx-movies-on-your-xbox-360/
 
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