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Title: OT -- Xbox 360 Getting XviD Support
Post by: glynor on November 30, 2007, 02:43:19 pm

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071130-divx-support-classic-xbox-games-coming-in-fall-dashboard-update.html

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On December 4, Microsoft will unleash the 2007 Fall Dashboard Update on the throngs of waiting Xbox 360 users.

In perhaps the biggest news for tech-minded gamers, codec support for video files will be widened, with Joystiq reporting that this will include MPEG-4 Part 2 video codec support. "What that basically means is that our users should find that most of their DivX and Xvid files will work because they're under that umbrella of the MPEG-4 Part 2 codec," Microsoft's Aaron Greenburg told the site. DivX and Xvid support has long been a requested feature from people who would like to use their Xbox 360 as a media hub, making this very welcome news.

This might just tip me towards picking one of these things up early next year.  We'll see....

Title: Re: OT -- Xbox 360 Getting XviD Support
Post by: jmone on November 30, 2007, 02:49:04 pm

Same rumors have been going around for the PS/3

Title: Re: OT -- Xbox 360 Getting XviD Support
Post by: glynor on November 30, 2007, 03:51:55 pm

Yeah, but this was an official announcement, which is a bit different than a rumor...  And, it's happening next week.