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DL .avi movies or DL .mp4 then convert to avi?

Discussion in 'DivX / XviD' started by sonyab523, Feb 20, 2010.

  1. sonyab523

    sonyab523 Member

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    I stream movies on my X box 360 but most of the movies are .mp4 so I end up converting them to .avi so they can stream. On occasion I find .avi movies. But I'm wondering which is better because the size is larger only when converting to .avi. Is the picture better or something once I convert?

    .mp4 to .avi yields usually a 3-4GB movie
    When just downloading an .avi files it's usually around 700 MB.
     
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    No the picture is not better.

    The likely reason it's bigger is that you didn't set the compression
    properly - for example, the codec bit-rate.
     
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    Yeah anytime I've tried to play a .mp4 movie I get an error. And I have the media update already. I even changed the file extension to .avi and that doesn't work. I get this error

    "Can't play this content because it may not be supported..."

    Status code: 69-C00D36C4
     
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    I forgot to note changing the file extension does work on Vista, but not on the X box 360. So not sure what the deal is.
     
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    With MediaInfo you can look and see what video/audio you have in the mp4 container.
     

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