How to Convert Video to XboX360 with Xilisoft Video Converter– Do It Yourself

There are folks that always question about how to make movies and music videos playable on XboX360 from devise video formats. For most of us, it seems like an impossible mission. We were rushing out of getting a brand new video game console with guarantee to playing back all as XboX video, but depressed by some unables.

From official site of XboX, we learned information as to the XboX360 that it supports such a bit of video formats as WMV, HD-WMV, H.264, and MPEG-4. It’s been said that if you got an Xbox 360 Component HD AV Cable connected to your high-definition or HD-ready television or monitor, you can view DVD movies in 480p and HD-DVD movies in 480p, 720p, or 1080i, and view both DVD and HD-DVD movies in any supported resolution up to 1080p with an Xbox 360 VGA HD AV Cable. So we are informed with the resolutions support.

As said in title, it’s totally easy to convert video files unsupported by XboX360 into an XboX360 supported HD-WMV file in 1080p, and you can do it yourself. After the installation of video converter software (due to my personal buying, I use Xilisoft Video Converter, a useful video converter.

just get into the folder where you installed it (the path is usually specified at “C:\Program Files\Xilisoft\Video Converter 3” in default). Keep going into the “profile” folder, you will find a lot of files in extension of .pf. That is what we are looking for. Open anyone of them using Notepad++ or with Notepad, the extra editor of Microsoft, all secrets and mysteries for video and audio conversion exposed in our eyes!

The next action is a snap. Just right-click your mouse, select the sub-option “Text document” of “New” to make a new file in the “Profile” folder. Rename it as the extension in .pf, and open it up. The last thing you’re gonna do is just to paste all offerings marked in bold below into the new .pf file, and save the changes.

[Main]
Name=Xbox360 WMV 1080pTV Movie
SName=WMV
Format=xwmv
ExtName=wmv
IsSysProfile	= yes

[Parameter]
t=0, "", ""
ss=0, "", ""
title=0, "", ""
author=0, "", ""
copyright=0, "", ""
comment=0, "", ""
album=0, "", ""
year=0, "", ""
genre=0, "", ""
composer=0, "", ""
origaritist=0, "", ""
url=0, "", ""
encodedby=0, "", ""
id3v2=0, "", "True"
vcodec=0, "", "wmv3x", {"wmv1x","wmv2x","wmv3x"}
s=0, "", "1440x1080",{"640x480", "720x480", "1280x720", "1440x1080" , "1920x1080"}
b=0, "", "2000", { "1000", "2000", "3000", "4000", "5000"}
r=0, "", ""
aspect=0, "", "4:3", {"4:3", "16:9"}
sameq=0, "", ""
vn=0, "", ""
acodec=0, "", "wma7x", {"wma7x"}
ab=0, "", "128"
ar=0, "", "48000", {"48000","44100","32000","22050"}
ac=0, "", "2 (Stereo)", { "2 (Stereo)" }
an=0, "", ""

Now, you would see a new output profile named Xbox_mpeg2_1080pTV presented in the Video Converter with a set of parameters available for XboX video size and bit rate, and audio sample rate. Is it amazing? You must be proud of that you Do-It-yourself!