Yes and you'll have full menu support too. Just rip the DVD movie to your hard drive using DVD Decryptor, then ftp the ISO file to your f:\video or g:\video directory on your Xbox. Once copied over, just play it with XBMC. Or just use the dvd2xbox application on your Xbox and make sure you're ripping in ISO mode. "ISO mode" is for movies and "normal mode" is for games.

Almost all movies are encrypted with CSS copy protection. (See 1.11). Decryption keys are stored in a normally inaccessible area of the disc. If you copy the contents of an encrypted DVD to a hard drive, the keys will not be copied. If you try to play the VOB files, the decoder will request the keys from the DVD-ROM drive and will fail. You may get the message "Cannot play copy protected files". DVD production has two basic phases: development and replication.

The Xbox has a DVD drive, but the drive will not be able to play DVD movies without the "Xbox DVD Movie Playback kit".

Added Gone With the Wind and Riverdance: Live in New York to "flipper" list. (1.21) Thanks Ed and Rick.

Yes, but the Xbox harddrive is only 8GB, and you can only save about 4GB worth of data to the harddrive, so it's not THAT useful. Some people do a mod to the Xbox to swap in a larger harddrive, up to 320GBs.

Not normally, no. The first DVD kit you use with your Xbox will lock it to the region of the DVD kit. So if you put a Region 1 kit into your Xbox, it will be permanently locked to only Region 1 DVDs. There is a product called Region X that will supposedly allow your Xbox to play movies from any region. Currently the product seems only to be available for Region 2 Xboxes. Information about the product is available here: http://special.reserve.co.uk/listings/extrainfo.

Yes, if your computer has the right stuff. The computer operating system or playback software must support regional codes and be licensed to descramble copy-protected movies. If the computer has TV video out, it must support Macrovision in order to play copy-protected movies. You may also need software that can read the MicroUDF file system format used by DVDs.

Yes, but only video downloaded from the Xbox Live Marketplace or preloaded on the Xbox, not your own videos.

Your Vista Media Center should now have an entry for DVD Library on the main screen. Right-click on it to add DVD movies from your hard drive.

If you try to play a movie (DVD) copied to your hard drive, you may get an error message. Because all DVD movies are in encrypted format. In order to open a encrypted movie, we need a decryption key. This key is stored in inaccessible area of the DVD. It cant be copied to hard drive.

First, make sure your drive is a DVD-ROM. Next, you need a DVD decoder software. Unfortunately, there are some licenses required to play a DVD movie which comes with DVD player software so most of them require purchases. There is one free open-source alternative to play DVDs VLC.

To upgrade your hard drive you will need a xbox mod chip installed and a copy of the EvoX cd or dvd. It has an hard drive rebuild option for upgraded large hard drives. When its has finished installing reboot and that all you need to do.

In a word, NO. The xbox has 4 x 16MB chips by default (64MB) they all share address pins i.e pin 1 on 1 chip is electrically the same point as pin 1 on the other 3 chips. The xbox has 4 positions and ONLY 4 positions free in which you can install extra memory chips. There are 2 free positions on the top side of the motherboard and 2 free on the underneath side.

Please click the button and select the path of source DVD movie from hard drive. Then DVD-Cloner will burn DVD movie from hard drive to DVD+-R/RW disc. If you want to make a 1:1 copy, please select "Burn DVD movie…… a D9 disc" option and click Start. Before it begins to copy, some detailed information will be displayed in the info window. You can define the number of discs to be copied here.

Unfortunately, this is not possible as this will be in violation of the copyright terms of the background music that we used for the slideshow. Please wait for the CD to become available instead. I clicked on the other menu links of the movie (eg, About Parent's Wish, View Feedback, etc) but it did not open up those links. Please tell me that this isn't a film to defend the 'right to die' movement and euthanasia.

an average bit rate of 4.5 megabits per second, a single sided DVD disc has the playback capability of 133 minutes of the highest quality audio and video images. That's nearly 92%of all Hollywood titles ever made! In fact, a dual layer DVD disc can provide up to 4 hours of the highest quality audio and video....on a single side of the disc!

No. Nintendo has confirmed that the Wii will not be able to play DVD movies. They're reasoning behind this is that most households have at least one DVD player already, and therefore adding DVD functionality to the Wii will only increase the price for functionality that many already have. However a premium version of the Wii is rumored to be able to play DVD movies

Your 'Region' is wrong in your dash settings! Change it to the area your game is from (NTSC-PAL), or more importantly, the area you are in. Default is normally the best!

No. You don't need to. The Xbox hard drive has separate partitions for cache, music etc & there is no need to defragment the drive ever, period.

Just like in the previous generation, utilisation of things like Xbox Live and the Hard Drive will be up to the game designers, game developers have also been informed that some scenarios will include a disconnected hard drive.

If Linux is already installed, you'll have to attach one of the hard drives to the DVD drive cable and basically perform a regular Linux hard drive upgrade. See the HOWTO's for more info. If you have not installed Linux yet, you'll have to consider why you need that software - you will not be able to run XBox games with an upgraded hard drive, so you're probably better off doing a hardware mod and installing Linux on the new hard drive while it's still empty. Under the right circumstances, yes.

You need to purchase the DVD remote kit. Follow the instructions that come with the kit. NOTE: The first remote kit you use with your Xbox will lock it to the region of the remote kit. If you put a Region 1 DVD kit in your Xbox, it will be permanently locked to Region 1 for DVD movies.