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Title: unable to play 720p movies on XBOX 360
Post by: Bond13579 on March 08, 2010, 11:49:20 AM

So last week I was able to play 720p movies no problem off my NAS (DNS-323) on my XBOX 360.  Everything is wired through my DIR-655.  I tried to run the same movie over the weekend and it was very choppy.  I tried all my 720p movies and the results were the same.  The rest of my movie collection in SD played no problem.

1)  playing movie off of DNS-323 on XBOX 360 = choppy
2)  playing the same movie off of laptop (wired & wireless N) on XBOX 360 = choppy

at this point I'm thinking the router is messed...  over the last week I had upgraded the firmware to the latest, 1.33NA and set up a RAID 1 on my DNS-323.  However my next test threw that thought out the door.

3) playing the same movie off of DNS-323 on laptop = PERFECT!

I'm very confused.  The only similarity between both cases that don't work is the XBOX 360.  There hasn't been any updates lately and like I mentioned before, I used to play these movies no problem.

If anyone has any thoughts or suggestions, please share.  I'm not sure what else to try.

Thanks in advance!

Title: Re: unable to play 720p movies on XBOX 360
Post by: war59312 on March 12, 2010, 08:46:29 AM

I too have found the xbox 360 to be pretty crappy at handling video playback on Windows.

Here is my post on the subject over at xbox.com: http://forums.xbox.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=31309432

I am unable to stream 1080p content from any Windows Machine to my xbox 360. Even when they are both directly connected together over Cat 6. Lag, lag, lag.

Yet when using Linux no such problem. And yes same as you my laptop though running Windows or Linux will play 1080p just fine. Even over wireless.

Title: Re: unable to play 720p movies on XBOX 360
Post by: Bond13579 on March 13, 2010, 10:10:46 AM

so I got HD content to play on the XBOX 360 by using Windows Media Center.  I don't like it because it's slow and I have to have my computer on at all times.  So now I'm streaming video from the NAS to the computer back to the XBOX.  I'd rather use the "video library" on the XBOX dashboard to watch my videos.  The same videos I can play on the xbox using windows media center are choppy when played through the XBOX video library.  FAIL!