? regarding playing WMV-HD on Xbox 360 — Community

#1 Mar 16, 2006 at 8:33 pm

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

#2 Mar 17, 2006 at 2:36 pm

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

#3 Mar 15, 2007 at 8:14 pm

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.

#4 Apr 13, 2007 at 9:29 pm

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

#5 Apr 15, 2007 at 3:22 am

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

#6 Apr 15, 2007 at 9:51 am

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

#7 Apr 15, 2007 at 3:16 pm

Cool. Glad it was so simple.

- S