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Brandon White
January 28, 2008 at 2:09 pm in reply to: Compression times for 720p vc-1 for xbox.

Thanks for the reply and links.

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Brandon
Brandon White
January 17, 2008 at 11:06 am in reply to: Compression times for 720p vc-1 for xbox.

As I mentioned above I know what formats the xbox supports and realize there are quicker ways to do it, but doing any of those sacrifices digital audio. I looking more for advice on the conversion to wmv instead of alternative formats. Thanks.

Regards,
Brandon
Brandon White
January 17, 2008 at 5:02 am in reply to: Compression times for 720p vc-1 for xbox.

Thanks for the reply, but I’m not concerned about the streaming part. I already have that set up and working fine. You just use Connect360 on OSX and you can stream any movie file the xbox supports without any problems. You can stream your iTunes and iPhoto libraries to it as well. It’s a great wireless solution and doesn’t require me to waste DVDs to watch things on the xbox. As for archiving the files, also not an issue. I have 4tb storage on my network and I just stream whatever I want to the xbox. To go into more specifics as to why I’m using .wmv, the xbox can read various formats….but the only way it will maintain digital 5.1 sound is if it’s in a wmv container. Therefore I have to reencode the matroska files to wmv (I’ve been using the vc-1 codec and lossless wma codec) if I want to maintain the original file’s quality and digital audio. That’s the specific (and granted, somewhat picky) reason I’m going to wmv files. I want to maintain the video quality as well as the digital 5.1 sound.

Regards,
Brandon