News Stream DivX to Xbox 360

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2006/01/17/stream_divx_xbox_360/

 

Quality! Problem is, it's not only Divx though but can it do Xvid, h.264, mkv, ogm, etc
Still not as functional as XBMC on an original Xbox. Nice to know it's possible though, and hopefully the Xbox360 will support more codecs in the future.

 

Traditional video encoding wisdom would dictate that transcoding is a bad thing for quality, though as a quick and dirty solution this is certainly an acceptable drawback. I would guess you would set it to encode at a fairly high bitrate (just low enough to be within the bandwidth limit of the network) and that the quality would therefore not be too bad. After all, you don't have to consider storage requirements with an on-the-fly stream. As such, the faster your network, the better this solution will work - you could practically stream losslessly compressed or uncompressed HD over a Gb LAN, but you'd need some fairly aggressive compression to achieve the same result over 802.11g, let alone 802.11b.

Of course, the ideal solution would be for the X360 to support divx, xvid, h.264 etc. natively, without the need for remote transcoding.