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Post Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:17 pm   
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I'm setting up a home network with two of the new 250GB Slims and three new Windows 7 PCs. So far, I have everything set up to flawlessly stream to both Xbox's from either of the three PC's from any room. I think I've already solved my issue with playing videos with ".mkv" containers. Now I'm having an issue with playing ".srt" subtitles for some of the movies. Can anyone give me some advice on this topic? Seems to be a common problem with the 360's reading .srt files.
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Post Posted: Wed Jan 05, 2011 8:38 pm   
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Didn't think the xbox supported subtitles at all. How did you sort the mkv business?

You can hardcode the subtitles using virtualdub.
You could use PS3 Media Server to stream the film + subtitles from your pc.
Get a decent media player (i know that doesn't help).

Bought a tv recently (samsung) and it plays films straight from usb, supports mkv and subtitles too.
On my tv upstairs i use a WDTV box, cost me £30 and supports subtitles, but not mkv files. There is a more expensive one that supports hd files.

I thought the xbox 360 was a crap media player?

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I found a program called XenonMKV that moves ".mkv" files into the ".avi" container without quality loss. it doesn't convert them into ".avi", it simply renames them as ".avi" in order for the Xbox to read them. I'm still working on the subtitle issue. If anyone else has any ideas, I'm more than willing to try them out and return with results.

SN: I already use Avidemux 2.5, so I can hardcode subs with that, but there has to be a solution. Where there's a will, there's a way.

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Post Posted: Thu Jan 06, 2011 6:00 am   
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Dkoots wrote:
I found a program called XenonMKV that moves ".mkv" files into the ".avi" container wihtout quality loss. it doesn't convert them into ".avi", it simply renames them as ".avi" in order for the Xbox to read them.


very cool, got a link? I'll google. Smile

I have been converting my MKV files into HD XVID/DIVX files to play on the 360. I wish the xbox 360 could handle mkv containers.. it just sucks. This new XenonMKV is just what im after.

Here's the method i used to convert my movies from MKV to AVI.

Convert HD 720/1080 MKV Video to AVI (AC3)
http://www.360-hq.com/postt6226.html

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Post Posted: Fri Jan 07, 2011 11:26 pm   
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I recommend Gotsent over XenonMkv.

Unfortunately those applications get lot of bugs, some mkv cant be "converted" without bugs which make them unplayable. You will know what I am saying if you start to watch videos on Xbox 360

What it makes is taking off the H264 video stream and the DTS or AC3 audio stream, convert the audio to ACC and mux it with the H264 into a mp4 container.

I havent see a better container than mkv.

As for subs, forget it, they are not supported, the only thing you can is to hardcode them but doing that on H264 takes a lot of time

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