HD Through xbox 360?

Hey guys I have a couple HD video clips on my computer and I got my 50 inch plasma tv right next to my computer. I also have the xbox 360 hooked up to it. Since I have the xbox 360 hooked up to my computer through windows media connect will it play the HD videos in the HD format or just in the normal DVD format. Becuase I know on my computer the clips play in HD. Does anyone know if my HD video clips will play on my TV without an HD DVD player?
-BTY

hi there.

what do you mean by dvd format? You'll be streaming the files straight to your xbox so do you mean the quality (640x480 uncompressed)?

You can play HD content streamed from your windows computer to your xbox 360 without the HD-DVD drive and at the corresponding resolution (i've played 720p clips but presume it can play 1080 stuff too). It will only play a few file formats however and you can google for them as well as i can but off the top of my head certain varients of WMV, AVI and MPEG4 file formats are compatible. It doesn't support DIVX or MKV container files at the moment although that may change in the future.

Just a quick question though, if you have it all set up why didn't you just see if you could play it!?

Pharcycle

When I say DVD format I mean the regular quaility of a DVD. Also all my files are in MKV format and since the 360 doesn't understand that format is there a converter that will let me change that format to avi or some format that the 360 knows and still keep the HD quaility. Or is there some codec that I can download and install on the 360 to make it read MKV files.
-BTY

well there seems to be a reasonable tutorial in the same level as your post, about 5-10 entries below it. (can't post links yet apparantly so you'll have to concatenate this link if you can't find it)

http : // www . highdefforum com / showthread . php?t=53017

other than that, there's an app called Super that should be able to do it but i've had limited success with it probably due to my ignorance in using it mind you, rather than its ability to convert it.

Unfortunatly because matroska is a container for video and audio, you really need to know how it was encoded (both the video and audio) before you can convert it to something else.

I've given up trying to stream media to the 360 so instead i'm building a linux mythTV box to play everything on my plasma. You can output DVI-D -> HDMI easily as its the same video signal and HDMI specs cables up to 7m but i'd imagine if you get uber low resistive and capaciticve cable you should be able to exceed that and play the videos direct from your PC. Unless of course its too far away (~15m max?)

dave