VLC HowTo/Play on Xbox
| This page describes how to make your Video Files playable on a XBox. | Other "how to" pages |
To play on XBox and XBox360 the file you copy to it needs to be of the correct format. This format is summarized below:
Codec Information
Video Codec WMV2
Audio Codec WMA
Container ASF
Size
Batch file
The batch file can look like that on Windows
c:\vlc\vlc -vvv %1 :sout=#transcode{vcodec=WMV2,vb=1500,scale=1,acodec=wma,ab=96,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=asf,dst=%1.wmv}}
http://happybeggar.com/vlcwmv.bat
http://happybeggar.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=63&Itemid=2
based on vlcwmv2.bat from happybeggar.com and updated for 0.9.8.a windows install
"C:\Program Files\VideoLAN\VLC\vlc.exe" -vvv %1 --sout-ffmpeg-qscale 1 :sout=#transcode{vcodec=WMV2,scale=1,acodec=wma,ab=96,channels=2}:duplicate{dst=std{access=file,mux=asf,dst=%1.wmv}}
VLC360
If you have your computer connected at the same time, you can use VLC360 to play directly your Computer files on your Xbox 360.
