So, I've been having issues for a while about how to play 720/.h264 rips on my plasma.

My DivX dvd players can't play them, and I don't have a pc attached, is there any other way?

How do you guys do it?

transcode back to dvd?

actually thats no good for 720p i suppose =(

i play all my mkv files through wmp, works awesome

dont know of anyway you could burn them and keep the quality through

apple tv or similar product?

last edited by Spook at 15:33:09 20/Sep/07

XBMC?

will play them, will wreck the quality though

Why not just play it in regular def and sit another foot further back from the screen?

Xbox 360's native mediaplayer will play 720p vids provided they're .wmv, which a lot are. You can get programs that will transcode on the fly for other formats.

yes there was a wickid program some1 posted on this forum that did exactly that, i forget the name tho

transcode360?

I was thinking along the lines of hardware - ie. higher quality dvd players etc.

how about a higher quality tv with a vga/dvi input?

hmm no i dont think it was specific to the 360, might of been a trog post

how about a higher quality tv with a vga/dvi input?

I have both? How does that help?

well you could do what i did got a mini-atx with a hdd and dvd drive in it and just dunk it out of the way near your tv somewhere

hook up pc to tv that does appropriate res's->watch->profit;

you really want me to bite don't you?

The answer evidently is to build a HTPC.

theres always the other option of putting up a white sheet with a light behind it and doing finger puppets

you can get media caddys now that you hook up your hardrive to and they plug straight into a vga port?

thats a nice cheap option

just need one that lets you update its codecs


from umart:

Product Description:
MEDIAGATE MG-35 is a high-performance media player that uses 3.5" IDE HDD.
The MG-35 has a 10/100 Ethernet port so home PCs in the same subnet can be easily accessed.
The MG-35 is sold without hard disk drive, leaving you free to select your preferred brand and capacity of drive.
The MG-35 has a USB2.0 slave port. It provides an alternative way to download digital contents from the PC.
The MG-35 can be configured in collaboration with web-based movie distributor as a set-top box or media gateway to access, play and/or download the legal movies from the website directly without home PC.

Features :
Has one 10/100 LAN port
Supports USB2.0 slave
3.5-inch HDD is user-installable
Supports MP1/2 MP@ML, MP4 ASP@L5, DivX 3.11, 4.x and 5.x, JPEG
Supports composite, S-video, component video outputs
Supports Dolby digital, MP1 and MP2 Layers I, II and III (MP3), Supports stereo L/R, optical/coaxial digital audio, analog 5.1 channels
Supports JPEG still picture
Enables file surfing from multiple sources on TV using a remote controller



last edited by Spook at 16:23:14 20/Sep/07

last edited by Spook at 16:24:17 20/Sep/07

Where does that say it supports 720/x264?

media player hd caddy is probably the easiest and cheapest option, just make sure you read its support forums thoroughly, some have issues w/ particular codecs others just s***ty interfaces.

a mate bought one and found it didn't do 1080p TS over the network, and for one of the compressed formats you couldn't FF/skip forward.

they are definitely not at the useability level of XBMC but at least it's hi-def.

yes there was a wickid program some1 posted on this forum that did exactly that, i forget the name tho

tversity?

Personally I wouldn't trust anything that transcodes to hold up the quality. I tried tversity and with high quality wmv it's f***ing SLOW and I had buffering pauses every few seconds on a 100mbit wired network playing from a 2.4ghz core2duo PC to an xbox360. You're better off either transcoding it to a hdwmv & putting it on a usb thumb drive & plugging that into your 360 if you're determined to do it this way (works on unmodded ones) or just buying a new dvd player that'll play it. Imho best option would be an HTPC.

last edited by whoop at 20:06:39 20/Sep/07

i downloaded a 4.5gb 1080p awesome dvd and tried to burn and use on divx player aswell :( bloody .mkv files lol

you really want me to bite don't you?

I can't believe noone bit at my comment

mkv is matroska not divx

2 years on, the trusty z500 is still up here in these stakes


It can't do h.264, but thank god for the resurgence of XB360 (which also can't?), there are windows media 1080 transcodes all over the place

720p is wasted on your tv anyway mongie

1280 x 720 > 1024 x 768

last edited by Spook at 07:49:44 21/Sep/07

o cool.

Look Spook, don't argue with Matt Shirvington okay. You can argue with me all you like... but SHIRVO KNOWS BEST OKAY.

last edited by mongie at 08:30:09 21/Sep/07