Be interested in watching videos on Xbox 360/One? But as you know some formats there are not supported, such as the MKV, right? Let’s learn more here.
Frankly speaking, I don’t know if you guys have found that during the years, people find more and more HD video content downloaded from Internet torrent streaming sites. Then they are quickly getting familiar with MKV video format, a video container theoretically packs everything. How much do you know about this container format? Up to 1080p Full-HD quality, MKV movies surely are also perfect source for your Xbox console. Unfortunately, so far Xbox series (Xbox 360, Xbox 360 elite, Xbox 360 Pro or Slim, and Xbox One) cannot read MKV file. What’s more, 4K and AVI videos etc, are not available.
What do you know about the Xbox or Xbox 360?
The Xbox is a video gaming brand powered by Microsoft, which includes a series of video game consoles like Xbox, Xbox 360 and Xbox One and Xbox 360 is the most popular and widely used one of these game consoles. Xbox 360 competes with Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Wii as part of the seventh generation of video game consoles, with which, you'll have a wonderful experience in games and entertainment, and just as Xbox 360 Official Website said Xbox 360 is the center of your games and entertainment universe.
Reasons here why Xbox cannot cannot accept the MKV movies for a playback
Xbox 360 has strict requirement for the input formats and only WMV, AVI, H.264 and MPEG-4 are compatible with Xbox 360. In other words, it's impossible to directly play MKV on Xbox 360. It is pity since MKV is an open standard free container format and very popular so far.
Pavtube MKV to Xbox Converter for Windows/Mac can work everything well in Xbox 360/One.
In order to convert our MKV files to the best format HD WMV for Xbox, we here highly recommend you this Xbox video converter which can easily stream our MKV files to Xbox with the easy operation. Let’s see what happen below:
Guide on converting HD MKV to HD WMV for smoothly playback on Xbox 360/One:
When you install this MKV to Xbox Converter and open the main interface, with the ‘Add video’ we can load the individual MKV video clips or with the ‘Add form folder’ we can import the source files in a complete folder. Batch conversion is also supported well here.
Then we should come to the top important point, choose the right one for Xbox here. Tap the ‘Format’ bar on the left of the preview window, drop down the output list, we can find the ‘Zune/Xbox 360 device’ there. As we mentioned above, in order to preserve the original quality, we suggest to select the ‘Xbox 360 HD Video(*.wmv)’ as the best one.
Optional function for those advanced users: Do you wanna have a nice enjoyment on Xbox? Well. Let me introduce the ‘Edit’ item here for you. Cut the unwanted clips? ‘Trim’ can decide the movie length. Add some subtitles as explanations? ‘Subtitles’ could do you a big favor. You can become a good editor in this interface.
Just several main simple steps we can work the MKV files well in Xbox, right? Finally, tap the ‘Convert’ button on the main interface, we can get the suitable HD WMV movies for playing in Xbox 360/One.
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