Tutorial: How install and use FFMpeg on PC with user friendly GUI instead of linux command line interface. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c0yzTx-I6o *note you must run apps in xp, so be sure your version of windows supports xp compatibility. I used the latest builds, they work fine. so just use th...

+1 for FF MPEG. Incase anyone else is interested in getting 720p videos to play on XBMC with perfect framerate, just download FFMPEG, open command prompt, change the target directory to where you downloaded, and issue the following command: ffmpeg -i "PATH TO FILE\source_video.mkv" -scodec...

im sorry but this is just misinformation and completely false. in fact 3.3 is much faster than 3.1 when loading jpg images such as skin backgrounds. You also don't seem to know the difference between a container and a codec. mkv is a container. saying "HD .mkv" makes no sense when talking...

Usually for shipping of small objects like that, I'd totally go with the USPS $5 small flat rate boxes. "If it fits, it ships; anywhere"
But those aren't even that much for a SFRB, you could add a little filler packing material, but definetly not a few pounds of it, Lol.

cheers xbs but it has now become apparent how much out of my depth i am lol. all that goes right over my head, which has pissed me right off as i believe id be pretty much done with these last 3 things sorted :( i spent 3 hours last night trying to do any of the 3 things and didnt get anywhere apar...

3.1 is perfectly responsive in 1080i. no skin stuttering or crashes when video is played.(won't play HD .mkv, has trouble with h.264) It will however upscale 720p avi xvid files and DVDs to 1080i. 3.3 will cause skins to be less responsive. 3.3 will playback videos in 1080i just so long as the vide...

http://www.parcel2go.com/ Just thought I'd plonk that there, you can often get a quote via that a lot cheaper than royal mail and they pickup from your door :) Royal Mail?! :lol: :lol: Do they have same day service? yep http://www.royalmail.com/personal/uk-delivery/sameday . I don't really understa...

from an electronics point (being an electronics engineer) hot swap is bad it makes it even worse that the fact that the xbox is double insulated and isolated from earth and it has potential to be above or below the potential voltage of the other party involved in the hot swap. even if it is only a ...

Woah - mine doesn't have all those pictures and stuff in it. Maybe clear the picture folder out a bit?

There are 3 independent settings relating to screen resolution in xbmc4xbox. SETTINGS | SYSTEM | VIDEO OUTPUT Here you can enable or disable 480p, 720p, and 1080i modes SETTINGS | APPEARANCE | DISPLAY Here you can set the resolution for the xbmc dash. (Auto will default to highest available as I un...

asbo wrote:http://www.parcel2go.com/
Just thought I'd plonk that there, you can often get a quote via that a lot cheaper than royal mail and they pickup from your door

Royal Mail?! Do they have same day service?

Your hillarious. Chimp came out like 9 years ago, Is that the past? Theres nothing cruddy about using your eeprom and doing an HDD upgrade the safe way. And any softmodder should learn how to use HDM because in worst case scenarios its your only friend. Yes HDM is old, but it doesnt change the fact...

trogggy wrote:Or if it's a softmod you can stick the iso itself on the hard drive. That's the only way I ever managed to get Race Driver 2 to work from the HDD.

So you can indeed run unmodified game ISOs right off the hard drive?

spot on advice! I can now connect to my xbox through FTP on the LAN but can't get it to go online for tvDB lookups etc. Any chance you could share your xbox settings with me? I've given my XBOX 192.168.1.6 as its IP address. I also need webmask (which I assume is 255.255.255.0?) and the default gat...

If you're looking for higher than standard def resolution, there's a miracle little command line based tool called "FF MPEG" that will do the job quite nicely for you.

bigkidoz wrote:Not at the same time you cant, as the bunny said you can just wire a usb extension onto the back of the controller port wiring so that it can still be used but not simultaneously.

Ah yes, I almost forgot to mention that Don't use the controller port and the USB modification at the same time.

**** I have found xbmc4xbox v3.1 w/slik set to minimal gui settings displaying only "system/power/videos/playdisc." This configuration will play dvds in 1080i (I have this build set as the default dvd player path in unleash X build used only for dvds) set fanspeed to 30% override. http://...

The new console based easy procedure makes the computer based solutions of the past obsolete... LMAO Chimp isnt new, and its also dangerous. Hotswapping runs the risk of killing your hardware. Some may like the idea of doing exactly what every IDE HDD manufacturer says is not supported by their pro...

I'm sorry, but that video is wrong in that sense. 1080 Full HD is higher resolution than 720p. Yes, the "progressive vs interlaced" makes some difference, but the difference at that high of resolution is nothing like it is going from 480i to 480p (which is "night and day"). The d...

Ah that explains it! I was sure I had joined the site before. Thank you for your reply. That link was real useful and was exactly what I was looking for however I've still not had success like I'd hoped. I managed to get almost to the end, but when I follow step 21 to access the router again, it ca...