Yeah that's how I have been using handbrake. Container MKV video codec ffmpeg-4, bitrate 3000kbps, AAc audio, 2 pass encoding. I have tried output resolution at 1280x720 but it just chokes the xbox I normally just select 720x304 and it looks quite good. I am interested in the advance options string ...

I've had always pretty good results using handbrake. Settings mkv container with ffmeg-4 between 2000-3000 bitrate 2 pass encoding

Thanks Buzz used the new build last night. Was watching a movie and I thought picture quality was even better than last build and you fixed PM III video info data Cheers

I see some Xbox's come with some sort of surge guard on the power cable maybe that would help

What about those monster component cable of e-bay, look to be good construction but freakn expensive

Yeah same here just using third party component cable. How often does the drop out happen for you I go through periods that nothing happens then all of a sudden it will a couple of times in the space of half an hour

Hi there, I had a similar situation every so often screen blacks out for a couple of seconds but audio carries on I have V1.4 with component cables. I even posted on this site Whufclee thought it could be power spikes or surges caused other electronic equipment e.g fridge. I've never done anything a...

I use standard PMIII skin rename game cover to default.tbn put it in game folder works great just make sure default.tbn doesn't have png or jpeg at the end of it e.g default.tbn.png it wont work.

Hi there was testing out 3.3 beta 2 small issue with PM III skin. The video info audio, size, cache, megabytes, dropped frames etc etc the writing and numbers are on top of each other. This issue is not in 3.3 beta 1 Cheers

Hi everyone have stripped xbox down. I cant see any bad solder joints or bulging capacitors. I don't have a smaller enough soldering iron to re-do solder joints either. Here are some pics, could it be possible faulty modchip?

Thanks Nextelhalo so this will involve removing the motherboard and looking at it from underneath for bad solder joints in LPC and pin header? The Duox2 chip says Duox2 GS Hyundai not AMD is this a clone chip? Xbox has started working again, it has lost time again saying 12.00 2004 could this be bec...

Hi everyone I have a 1.6 duox2 chip with evox8+ 1.6 bios and 250gb hdd. Turn on small power button, xbox cycles 3 times with green light coming on off on off on and then goes green and red with no picture on screen I can see duox2 chip flashing red through side grill. I can use eject button to load ...

I tried loading the E:\EEPROM.bin file in EVtool and it said kernel extraction failed. I thought it was evox m8+ v16 bios because it said that in XBMC settings info. Tried with dvd button still loads to MS Dash. When turning on xbox after the flubber it loads to a blue xbox and I can see the Duox2 c...

Hello everyone been doing a bit of research on this problem I think I need to use either Hexen or Slayers 2.7 to reflash the bios to sort out the dash booting paths. Any info on this would be appreciated

Thanks Xman with hexen disc in I ftp in and took evoxdash.xbe in C:\ and placed once at a time in the different folders you said and rebooted still nothing apart from MS Dash every time. Before I used hexen disc described in method above there was in E:\EEPROMBackupBeforeLock. Bin cfg and txt and un...

Hi everyone anyone got a fix to my problem. Do I need to use evtool to set boot order and flash bios sorry over my head when it comes to this stuff. Any help would be greatly appreciated

Cheers Heimdall

Hi all I tried again using hexen chose 3.5.4 rebuild pal disk once that completed xbpartitioner came up choose F:\ all 230gb started. Once that finished I selected 4.1 installed xbmc to E:\ Then I went to dashboard tools switch dashboards 5.1.4.3 switch to xbmc on E:\. It still boots MS Dash. ftp' t...

I must have done something wrong choose 3.5.4 rebuild disk a partition table came up not exactly sure if I got this right just wanted 250gb on F:\. Picked load xbmc to E:\Apps and then choose dash shortcut to make xbmc boot as dash but now it boots to Microsoft dash please help I have done something...

Hi Heimdall I downloaded Hexen from xphaser sig burnt it to dvdr 4x speed when I choose option 3.5.4 rebuild disk I cant seem to enter the correct password am I missing something here?