Unable to stream MKV's to Xbox 360

[jinroh10]

Hello all, my question today is has anyone successfully streamed MKV's from their PC to the Xbox 360, and if you have please tell me how? Upon several attempts I am prompted by a message stating that the xbox 360 can not read the file. Please help..

[AMICLG]

Sometimes you can due to MKV being X.264 (open source H.264) and if it's encoded to be almost MP4 it'll work but you'll only have pause/play control, problem is that the Xbox doesn't have the proper software codec for MKV and will likely never so 99.9% of MKV files won't work.

[jinroh10]

Sometimes you can due to MKV being X.264 (open source H.264) and if it's encoded to be almost MP4 it'll work but you'll only have pause/play control, problem is that the Xbox doesn't have the proper software codec for MKV and will likely never so 99.9% of MKV files won't work.

Wow...that sucks, but thank you.

[TopWargamer]

Wow...that sucks, but thank you.

You can stream MKVs just fine, but there's a bit of setup required. It's not much though.

http://forums.xbox.com/xbox_forums/xbox_support/xbox_one_support/f/4273/t/1660110.aspx

 

I've done this before, and MKVs play just fine.

[jinroh10]

You can stream MKVs just fine, but there's a bit of setup required. It's not much though.

http://forums.xbox.com/xbox_forums/xbox_support/xbox_one_support/f/4273/t/1660110.aspx

I've done this before, and MKVs play just fine.

That link is no good.

[TopWargamer]

That link is no good.

Works perfectly fine for me...

 

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That link is no good.

works for me...

[jinroh10]

That link is no good.

Ok...I will give it a try.

[SMURG]

You could always just install Handbrake and encode them into .mp4s yourself.

I find 360s often have trouble even with h.264 though. My brother's will only play .avis I think.