Posts Tagged ‘DivX’
Serving DivX to the Xbox 360 from Ubuntu
Microsoft released the fall update for the Xbox 360 on the 4th of December which included support for DivX/Xvid playback. A popular choice for encoding video due to its compression to quality ratio. Could this mean I am now able to free up some space on my A/V rack? Currently I’m using a hardware-modified Xbox (original) with the open source Xbox Media Center (XBMC) installed on it, decoding my Divx/Xvid content from a Samba share on my media server.
After a quick poke around I found a package called uShare that serves media over the uPnP protocol that the Xbox 360 utilises. (more…)