Xbox 360 Spring 2007 Dashboard Update Hands-On

Posted by Zonk on Wednesday May 9, 2007 @04:55AM from the no-red-rings-please dept.

Engadget writes "Well, that Xbox 360 Spring 2007 Dashboard update did land at about 2:00AM PST as expected, and brought with it a few fun features we were hot to test out -- but none more than the Xbox's expanded video playback capabilities. We were able to play back 720p and even 1080p MPEG-4 and H.264 content on our Xbox 360. Technically speaking the Xbox 360 now officially beats out the Apple TV in the digital video arena, both in resolution and bitrate. (At best the ATV only does up to 720p at 5Mbps, while the Xbox does 1080p up to 10Mbps; neither supports higher than stereo audio.) In other words, if you're an Xbox owner thinking about an Apple TV for playing back video in your living room, you might want to think again."

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Re:What about DivX? by wilsonthecat · 2007-05-09 05:40 · Score: 3, Informative

transcode 360 does this, although the project hasn't been updated for sometime.

http://runtime360.com/projects/transcode-360/

The problem is rewind/forwarding doesn't work too well.
Try TVersity by Nerdfest · 2007-05-09 05:44 · Score: 4, Informative

Check out the TVersity audio/video server. It's pretty cool in that it's free (as in beer) and does transcode on the fly for the xbox 360. It will even do HD transcoding if your PC has the processing power. It's also a lot more stable than Windows Media Connect.