Can the Xbox play VCDs, SVCDs or DivX ?
In short no – the Xbox does not run the media formats that VCD or SVCD’s are recorded in, but you can get software that will convert VCD or SVCD’s into DVD format & write a movie onto a normal CD that a DVD player can read. Good luck with that one 🙂 Update: You can now play lots of media formats on Xbox using a software application called XBMP “Xbox Media Player”, this application that has been coded by Runtime & d7o3g4q allows you to play a wide variety of media formats ( inc VCD/SVCD MPG 1 & 2 ), DivX & MP3’s the list goes on. Like most homebrew software for Xbox this application requires a modded Xbox to run.
Writen March 14th 2002 In short no – the xbox does not run the media formats that VCD or SVCD’s are recorded in, but you can get software that will convert VCD or SVCD’s into DVD format & write a movie onto a normal CD that a DVD player can read. Good luck with that one 🙂 Update: Writen June 4th 2002 You can now play lots of media formats on xbox using a software application called XBMP “Xbox Media Player”, this application that has been coded by Runtime & d7o3g4q allows you to play a wide variety of media formats ( inc VCD/SVCD MPG 1 & 2 ), DivX & MP3’s the list goes on.
