Preset Files for Xbox 360

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krisandrews
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Preset Files for Xbox 360

Post by krisandrews » Tue Dec 22, 2009 8:43 am

I have found some settings that work fine for playing content on the Xbox 360.
I have attached pre-set files for both H.264 and DivX.

I have experimented a bit with the DivX settings, for audio VBR, ABR and CBR all work OK. The video is pre-set for a good quality DVD transcode at full size.
The only thing I have to change sometimes is the Aspect Ratio in Picture settings, sometimes it works best set to 16:9, and sometimes with no change.

If you want to test it select 30 seconds of your movie in the Time settings and transcode first before doing the whole film!

Using the AVI pre-set I get around 20 fps speed on a 3.2GHz P4.

Let me know how you get on with these...

P.S. Not sure if you can transcode copy protected DVDs using Mediacoder, I normally use DVD Decrypter to get it onto my hard drive first!

To use, copy into a text file and save as <preset name>.xml

File xboxavi.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MediaCoderPrefs><node key="overall.ui.mode">Advanced</node><node key="overall.ui.expertView">Audio Command</node><node key="overall.ui.optionTab">7</node><node key="overall.ui.param">680,717,92,46</node><node key="overall.task.destdir">C:\Documents and Settings\Kristian\My Documents\My Videos\</node><node key="overall.video.mode">Quality-based</node><node key="overall.video.quality">90</node><node key="overall.video.dar">true</node><node key="overall.video.darw">16</node><node key="overall.video.darh">9</node><node key="overall.video.format">XviD</node><node key="overall.container.format">AVI</node><node key="overall.playback.render">false</node><node key="audioenc.lame.mode">ABR</node><node key="videoenc.xvid.dx50">true</node><node key="audiofilter.resample.samplerate">44100</node><node key="videofilter.frame.enabled">false</node></MediaCoderPrefs>
File xbox360h264.xml

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<MediaCoderPrefs><node key="overall.ui.mode">Advanced</node><node key="overall.ui.expertView">Audio Command</node><node key="overall.ui.param">680,640,352,104</node><node key="overall.task.destdir">C:\Documents and Settings\Kristian\My Documents\My Videos\</node><node key="overall.audio.encoder">Nero Encoder</node><node key="overall.video.mode">Quality-based</node><node key="overall.video.quality">60</node><node key="overall.video.dar">true</node><node key="overall.video.darw">16</node><node key="overall.video.darh">9</node><node key="overall.playback.render">false</node><node key="audioenc.aacplus.type">LC-AAC</node><node key="audioenc.nero.format">LC-AAC</node><node key="audioenc.nero.mode">Target Bitrate</node><node key="audioenc.nero.bitrate">128</node><node key="videofilter.frame.enabled">false</node></MediaCoderPrefs>

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Re: Preset Files for Xbox 360

Post by meRobs » Thu Dec 24, 2009 9:34 am

May I suggest you copy your Presets to the Topic "Post your working Presets here", where it will remain at the top of the Forum.

Your current Post will simply move down the Forum with time and become less useful.
Have you checked out the Tips & Guides for MediaCoder? Try: http://forum.mediacoderhq.com/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=8061
Also, get older builds at: http://www.videohelp.com/tools/MediaCoder/old-versions#download

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Re: Preset Files for Xbox 360

Post by krisandrews » Thu Jan 14, 2010 2:59 am

Just in case people still read this here...

I forgot to mention that these presets are for version 0.7.2 build 4536.

I don't seem to have had much luck with later versions, this one does all I need so I'm sticking with it :-)

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