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How to Play an MPEG on an XBox

You can burn DVDs from MPEG files and watch them on Xbox and Xbox 360. You will need the DVD Movie Playback Kit to watch DVDs on the original Xbox, but you will not need special hardware to watch them on Xbox 360. The DVD-playing adapter for the original Xbox uses an infrared sensor to detect commands from a remote control that comes with the upgrade. Simply putting a DVD in an Xbox 360 starts playing the disk. Compress video to the MPEG-2 format before burning to a disk to ensure compatibility.

Things You'll Need

Original Xbox DVD Movie Playback Kit
Blank DVD
DVD burner
DVD-burning software
DVD-authoring software
Video-converting software

Instructions

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  Download the video-converting software or install it from a CD. Run the program from the Start menu or by double-clicking its desktop icon. Drag your video file to the software window to add it to the list and convert it to MPEG-2. Depending on the size of your file, this step can take up to several hours.
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  Insert a blank disk in the DVD drive and run the DVD-authoring software. Click "Add Titles" to browse for MPEG-2 files to add to the blank disk, and include as many as will fit on the disk. Single-layer DVDs hold 4.7 GB of data, and double-layer disks hold 8.5 GB.
- 3
  Click on a title in the menu to select it and then click on "Chapters" to add chapter information to the title. Use the visual editor to create start and stop points throughout the title, or type in the chapter locations if you know the hour, minute and second where the chapter should start.
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  Click "Menus" at the top of the screen to add a graphic menu to the DVD. Browse for a JPEG image or MPEG movie to use for the disk menu. Make your own MPEG file of a short video with your video-converting software.
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  Click "Author DVD" to save an ISO file of the disk in a folder on your hard drive. Run your DVD-burning software and click "Add Files" to browse for your authored ISO file. Click "Burn" to burn the disk.
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  Insert the DVD playback kit in the controller port of your Xbox. Insert the burned DVD in the Xbox and turn it on. Use the included remote control to play, stop and scan your created disk.

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