Michael045
Standard Member
Is it possible to transfer movies I have on my laptop onto my Xbox HDD?
You can put them on a usb stick and use that on the Xbox.
The main thing it's missing is native support for MKV containers.Isnt the xbox limited to the type of files it can play though?
The main thing it's missing is native support for MKV containers.
It'll play DivX, Xvid, WMV, Quicktime, MPEG-4, H.264 in various containers, so the most common formats are covered, but there are some limitations. For instance, you can play an AVI in 720p with 5.1 audio, but you can't play one that's 1080p. WMV and H.264 support up to and including 1080p.
All you can really do is try it though, cos there's so many different ways for files to be encoded.
I'd like to see MKV and FLAC support, although I doubt we'll get either. I encode movies to MKV using Handbrake as you can embed subtitle files, add chapter markers and stuff, so that's useful. All of my CDs are ripped to lossless FLAC. I have to transcode everything on the fly via MediaMonkey to stream it to the 360 (which works fine, but native support is better!).
Nope. It's had that functionality since an update in 2007.
The laptop hard drive is probably formatted to NTFS, which the 360 doesn't support.
Thinking about it, Stu, what I said previously may be incorrect.Ok, so is it likely to work from a memory stick or would that also be formatted to NTFS?