[fta123]

I know that XBMC cant play back HD content, but what if the HD content it is converted either on the fly or later on at the highest possible quality ivx format. I also know there have been great improvement ver the year in the divx quality...can anyone share his experiences on playing this formats...Thanks

[Coco]

I don't know about divx but I do know xvid will play back 720p just fine. Although high action scenes see it spike the cpu to 95-99%. It will sit as low as 80% cpu usage otherwise. So essentially 720p is the max it can do. If you used mpeg you might be able to get 1080p to display but I've never tried.

[ultrabrutal]

fta, search forum and wiki. it's all there

[fta123]

Hey Ultrabrutal...when you said HD....which format you talking about Divx,Xivd MPEG4?

[Gamester17]

DivX and Xvid are both derivitives of H.263 (a.k.a. MPEG-4 ASP), see:
http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/?tit...esolutions
and:
http://www.xboxmediacenter.com/wiki/?tit...n_media.3F

If you are thinking about H.264 (a.k.a. MPEG-4 AVC) then forget about it, you will never be able to playback native high-definition H.264 on the Xbox.

[DJ_Izumi]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H.263

Uhh... h.263 isn't MPEG-4 ASP. :/

[Gamester17]

Yes MPEG-4 ASP a H.263 derivative, see this "MPEG-4 Part 2" (a.k.a. MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile) article:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_ASP

Here is a great article which also does a good job in explaining MPEG-4 ASP and the codecs available for it:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?t=73022