After installing an X3 chip and using my Xbox as a media device is the modded Xbox a viable solution to watching DVD movies? I am hoping that the sound and video quality are up to par with the high end DVD players. Thanks for any replies.
Quality of picture watching DVD movies
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Look around for XBMC - Xbox Media Center. A lot of people use it as a dashboard (which it does a good job at), but its real strength is as a media player (DVD, MP3, etc).robpreshall said:
Yeah it's pretty good, I use XBMC with a scart video lead (RGB) and optical output from the xbox for Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound, which works just as well for games as movies 
only problem with XBMC is it doesn't read dvd menus. You are stuck navigating the .vob files. And on a sidenote, click the link in my signature for a scene from the movie dodgeball.
true, actually I use XBMC to watch my divx files, and DVDX2 / Avalaunch to watch DVDs.
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I think your sig is screwing up the thread a tad :lol:
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I think your sig is screwing up the thread a tad :lol:
It does play img files however, so you do not have to keep selecting the new "vob" file. I have not tried to include the menu in the img, as I am just want the movie to start and skip all of the crap.
The video and sound quality are in my opinion 99% as good as watching it on your computer if you are talking about divx or avi files!! I haven't watched a dvd in it yet because I have a dvd player for that function... Another nice feature is that you can resize the picture to make it look a little more aestetically pleasing!! Some people like widescreen..ie...me....some people like full screen... When you strech the widescreen to fullscreen it makes it slightly choppy though...