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Question for you. You mention that these WMV HD movies will play on the Xbox 360. Is that true of any WMV HD file or just the production verisons.

I have streamed WMV-HD video using the 360 as a Windows Media Center extender (which worked great.) Can I burn these files to a CD or DVD and play them directly?

Thanks

-TRE

TRE - to author a WMV-HD for playback in a computer, you would need to include a player and some special activex controls.

See http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... fault.aspx for more info about this process

As to how the xbox360 uses the files on the disc (does it look for autorun.inf etc), I really don't know, but I would think that if you want to pop the disc in and have it play, you would need to 'author' it as a wmv-hd dvd. otherwise, you should be able to play the wmv-hd files from the disc as you do from a hard drive.

hope that helps!

Jason

as of the fall update you can burn wmv files to a disc and play them on the console...just goto the media blade, video, select current disc and choose what vid you wanna play.

how do you burn the wmv files so that the xbox wil play them?

Here's a link to the Authoring Guide, as published by Microsoft:
http://www.microsoft.com/windows/window ... fault.aspx

I intend on trying some of this soon as well. I'll let you know how it goes as soon as I get around to it.

Hope that helps,

- Shane

thx,but i just burned the wmv file as a data disc and use it in my xbox360,just go to the media fan and select video,then current disc and play. but thx for the reply

Cool. Glad it was so simple.

- S