Help please....

[Sam_41]

I have installed Goldberg's PC without a PC file and am trying to get DivX movies to play. I have downloade and burnt media player 6 but when I put in the xbox it does not load. What do I have to do? Cheers,
Sam

[Sam_41]

OK i have now copied this to the e: in the folder e:\apps\media player 6 . However, when I click on the default.xbe file I just get a black screen.
Any help would be greatly appreciatted........

[Sam_41]

Right- I have now putmedia player 6 onto the hdd and it is now appearing on the Evo-x startup screen. It is in: hard disc game & apps > apps > xbox media player.
When I click on xbox media player I just get the green evolution x screen. Please HELP me out here!!

[Sam_41]

Is someone going to hlep me here? Please give us a hand if u know anything about this. I am really stuck here. Cheers,
Sam

[Freaky]

someone must know guys, loads of you must play them on your xbox

[fe_man2000]

I only use them on DVDR - I can help with that but nor on the HDD.

Cheers
Ironman

[Sam_41]

fe_man2000- Do you mean you put media player onto every divx dvd-r you burn? I don't load the divx files onto the hdd, they are on dvd-r. What I meant was I have put media player onto the hdd, not the movies.
Sorry if this was not made clear. If you can help me it would be much appreciatted.........

[fe_man2000]

I understand ,But - I dont see any point in putting the player on the HDD. The Mediaplayer is so small I burn it on every DVDR along with the 5 or 6 Divx movies. This way each DVDR is stand alone and can be played in any PC or any Chipped Xbox which is useful as my mates somtimes want copies. The only downsides are that the first 4 or 5 of these DVDR's I made are using XBplayer 5 and dont have FF or RR ability - Also that I have to put the file descriptions and the photos for each movie on the DVDR as well.

I havent even tried to get the mediaplayer on the HDD and use DVDR with the movies on - why bother ? I have a nice collection of Movies sitting in DVD cases with covers I made next to the Xbox
now.

I will happy give you advise on how to do this with Media player version 6 if you want, but playing from the HDD is not something I do.

Cheers
Ironman

[Sam_41]

OK thanks fe_man2000. Please could you advise me as to how to put the player onto the disc then. Also- when you are putting DivX is it possible to put folders in for different movies or do you just have one big folder?
Cheers,
Sam

[Sam_41]

Problem still not solved.......... Would be grateful of any help.

[fe_man2000]

OK here is a quick guide to making a DVDR Movie disk using Mediaplayer 6.

Once you have got mediaplayer 6 on your PC and unzipped it it looks like this (BOLD = A FOLDER, lowercase = a file)

MEDIA
xbpskin.xml
xbpconfig.xml <<<< this is important.
catalogue.xml <<<< this is important.
default.xbe

Inside the media folder are 2 other folders

VIDEO
PICTURES
a load of file which you can ignore.

Movies all go in the VIDEO folder, and you can put a picture for each movie in the PICTURE folder if you want (they must be 60x90 pixels max in size) but its not needed if you cant be bothered.

Once you have done this edit the catalogue.xml. Each movie must have an entry in the catalog file so the mediaplayer can see it. Here is an example, always starts it and always ends each entry.



spiderman

Kirsten Dunst.

The summer blockbuster - Spiderman.

D:\Media\Pictures\spider.jpg



IMPORTANT
enteries must be lowercase. - this is how the player finds the movies so the entry must be a word or part of a word that is in the title of your movie file

Example -
Blackhawk down.avi >>>>> black

Just make sure there is no other movies with black in the file name.