Xbox 360 Fall Update
Microsoft has announced that it will begin updating the Dashboard for the Xbox 360 beginning on December 4th at 2AM PST. This update contains something which I’ve been hoping for since I realized I could stream video from the PC to my Xbox 360 and have my videos play on the big screen - DivX and XviD support!
For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, let me take a minute to explain. DivX and XviD are compression technologies which allow you to take a normal video file that is, say 2 GB in raw format, and compress it down to say, 700 MB. However, when you compress it, you also need the information to be able to de-compress it - the DivX and XviD codecs.
I’m really excited about this feature because I’ve been using a 3rd party tool, TVersity Media Server, to stream TV shows and/or movies, which are compressed with either DivX or XviD to my Xbox 360. Microsoft has, for once, just made my life a little easier!
[Via Engadget]