X360 Xvid without streaming

Up until today, streaming content with a program like TVersity was the only way of playing Xvid movies on your Xbox 360. It had some drawbacks in requiring complicated setup, a computer to be running, and a very good computer for HD streaming.

Today Microsoft added MPEG4 support, through which Xvid playback is now possible. Their move follows a recent update on the PS3 to support DivX. So now everyone is happy. This is good news indeed, as it means the X360 can play Xvid from any source, including the internal HDD, a networked computer (without having to transcode), and best of all burnt DVD’s. Not only that, but it can handle high resolutions, and upscales nicely to 1080p using the hardware upscaler that does such a nice job on DVD movies.

All you need to do is download a 3MB update, the first time you try to play an Xvid file.

The 360 certainly just got a whole lot better as a media device!