Well I have an HD-DVD player. is there a way to play HD movie/movie clips i have on my computer?

Can i burn them on a regular DVD and somehow play them via the HD player?

or is there no way to play HD-DVD quality movies without actually HD-DVDs at this point?

If those HD video files are encoded in a format the the Xbox can play, you can either stream them or load them on to a USB drive and plug that into your Xbox. If they are small enough in size to be burned onto a DVD, then you can do that as well, I think.

You can do all this without the HD-DVD player, by the way.

You can play HD files on your Xbox w/ the latest firmware upgrade. I tried it out w/ a USB and it does play but the quality isn't quite as nice as it would look on your computer.

If those HD video files are encoded in a format the the Xbox can play, you can either stream them or load them on to a USB drive and plug that into your Xbox. If they are small enough in size to be burned onto a DVD, then you can do that as well, I think.

You can do all this without the HD-DVD player, by the way.

I was just reading, can I burn the file on a dual layer DVD disk and play it through my XBOX that way?

what formats does the xbox support?

What file extension(s) are you guys referring to? I tried a *.mov HD movie and it didn't work.

Easiest way is to stream from PC ... search for it.

Easiest way is to stream from PC ... search for it.

what about a mac?

Here ya go:
http://blogs.msdn.com/xboxteam/archive/2007/11/30/december-2007-video-playback-faq.aspx

The 360 Dashboard media player can play back WMV/VC1, H.264, MPEG4, and DiVX files in both SD and HD, and the listed file specs are what is supposed to work *well*. There are no hard-coded limits so higher resolution/higher bit-rate files may work as long as they're properly encoded and you don't overdo it.
Playback can be off USB mass-storage devices, optical media (yes, dual-layer DVD will work), or off a PC or mac across the network. For mac connectivity you need a commercial app called, oddly enough, Connect360. ;-)
There are other Windows and Linux-based apps that will let you transcode files on the fly so you could stream content that is not in the supported formats but as of now, MS supports pretty much every reputable format as long as you stay within the bounds of the specs mentioned above.
Check out 'round this forum and you'll find at least a dozen threads discussing this issue and the tools you can use.
Good luck.

what about a mac?

Connect360 (http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/connect360).

Thanks for the link fjtorres - precisely what I was looking for.

I have been successful playing HD movies (1080p and 720p) on my xbox 360. And it looks awesome! I have a western digital usb hard drive. I have several HD in mkv format. IS there a good software to convert mkv files be compatible with XBOX 360? I am on a mac.

Thank you

You can play HD files on your Xbox w/ the latest firmware upgrade. I tried it out w/ a USB and it does play but the quality isn't quite as nice as it would look on your computer.

Maybe it's your TV, because the "Speed Racer" 1080p trailer looks better on my TV than on my PC.

Maybe it's your TV, because the "Speed Racer" 1080p trailer looks better on my TV than on my PC.

Same Here!

When playing back the "Speed Racer" trailer did you guys experience anykind of odd framerate issues?

I downloaded from Yahoo Movies and if seems like some frames are repeating twice and skipping other frames giving odd jerky motion effect. Please look carefully, I found it distracting but mabye some people may not notice...

When playing back the "Speed Racer" trailer did you guys experience anykind of odd framerate issues?

I downloaded from Yahoo Movies and if seems like some frames are repeating twice and skipping other frames giving odd jerky motion effect. Please look carefully, I found it distracting but mabye some people may not notice...

I download the 720p trailers for 360 playback due to this same issue. The 720p trailers convert to pretty small files also (.wmv).

Connect360 (http://www.nullriver.com/index/products/connect360).

thats cool, is it like windows Media Center?

the problem still is that I have no interent... in system requirements for this it states that...

"System requirements
An Xbox 360 with a network connection"

Does that mean interent? or can i network it another way? Like just by using a network cable or something?

thats cool, is it like windows Media Center?

the problem still is that I have no interent... in system requirements for this it states that...

"System requirements
An Xbox 360 with a network connection"

Does that mean interent? or can i network it another way? Like just by using a network cable or something?

you have to connect the xbox to your macintosh with a network cable or via your wireless network..... how else would you stream the files from your "computer"?

When playing back the "Speed Racer" trailer did you guys experience anykind of odd framerate issues?

I downloaded from Yahoo Movies and if seems like some frames are repeating twice and skipping other frames giving odd jerky motion effect. Please look carefully, I found it distracting but mabye some people may not notice...

Are you talking about running it on your PC or 360?

My PC is pretty old and will stutter on HD videos, but the 360 plays them all flawlessly.