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Play or Stream MKV videos on Xbox 360

31 Monday Dec 2012

Posted by Harshit S in How-To Guides, Software, Tips 'n Tricks, Xbox

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Android, Digital Living Network Alliance, DLNA, Matroska, Media server, Multimedia, Plex, Plex Media Server, Streaming media, Tips, Tricks, Twonky Beam, Windows Media Center, Xbox 360

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First of all, let me tell you, I was as disappointed as you might be when I found out that my Xbox 360 won’t play mkv file only because it chooses not to. (maybe because of licensing issues). So, without much hope, I tried to google for some workaround to make it play the mkv files, and here is what I found:

  1. MKV is just an open source and free  multimedia container, so like an AVI file, MKV file can contain any type of files in it.
  2. Xbox 360 supports H.264/MPEG-4 AVC encoding profile of upto level 4.1 (but not if it is in mkv container)
  3. Xbox 360 only supports 2 channel audio.

Based on the above facts, there are 2 types of solutions.  Continue reading →

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