Video and the XBox 360 Spring Update
on 04.09.07, 12:22pm in home theater • comments (2)
[XBox.com] Added H.264 video support: Up to 10 Mbps, Baseline, Main, and High (up to level 4.1) Profiles with 2 channel AAC LC and Main Profiles. Added MPEG-4 Part 2 video support: Up to 5 Mbps, Simple Profile with 2 channel AAC LC and Main Profiles.
Does this mean that if I have a UPNP server (such as Connect360 or the Infrant ReadyNAS) that I can now plop .MP4 files on it and they can stream directly to the 360 w/o a Media Center?
If so, some of my own personal codec hell may be solved (although I don’t see support for any 5.1 audio). In fact, you could have the same content served up to an AppleTV and a 360 (imagine that!).
Sean McLeod (April 9, 2007 @ 11:11 pm)
Although I’ve seen some comments on the web claiming that the Apple TV doesn’t support video streams > 5Mb/s. If true you would have to make sure that none of your video content is encoded at greater than 5Mb/s which will also limit the quality of HD content.
Cheers
Steve (April 10, 2007 @ 7:21 am)
Thats fine - I’d rather trade a bit in quality (my wife wont notice) in order to get things working everywhere in the house.