How to Stream and Play DVD on Xbox 360 console

Date May 4, 2016 Author Catherine Category DVD Tips, Microsoft

Xbox 360 is not only a game console, but also a great video player to enjoy movies on the go. No doubt we can add more fun to our digital entertainment. For example, usually, we may have more or less own some DVD discs, which may be either those purchased from stores or those received as special gifts from friends, so streaming DVD library to Xbox 360 for playback at home is a good choice.

Can Xbox 360 Play DVD?

Yes! Every Xbox 360 can play DVD movies right out of the box — with no additional parts necessary. Watching a movie on the Xbox 360 is a straightforward process. If you have Xbox 360, you probably don’t need a separate DVD player.

To start: Insert a DVD into the disc drive of the Xbox 360 console and turn on the console. The console automatically starts to play the DVD.

Bookmarking: If you stop a DVD and eject it before the feature ends, the Xbox 360 console remembers, or bookmarks, the point where you stopped. When you reinsert the DVD, the DVD continues from that point.

Note: You cannot turn off the bookmark feature.

Why Sometimes Xbox 360 console Can’t Play a DVD?

Officials said we can play DVD on Xbox 360 console without special software or hardware. Accordingly, streaming DVD to Xbxo 360 is entirely feasible. But why we still encountered the issue of failing to inset DVD to Xbox 360 for playback? The following paragraph will clearly describe the reasons.

Reason One: Wrong region code

Solution One:

Check the DVD region and format: Make sure the DVD region matches the region of your Xbox 360 console. Look for the region code on the disc or DVD packaging. For example, if you bought your Xbox 360 console in the United States, Canada or a US territory, the console plays Region 1 DVD discs, or discs coded for all regions.

For information about disc formats and region, see Supported regions, formats and discs below:

Each Xbox 360 console is manufactured for a specific DVD and game region, following international standards. The Xbox 360 console can only play discs that are sold in the same region as the console.

Supported DVD regions

Find the region code represented as a number between 1 and 8 on the packaging and verify that it matches your region.

Supported game regions

Supported formats

The Xbox 360 console supports most movie formats. Refer to the lists below for details about supported formats.

Video codecs that are supported by all the different ways to play video content on Xbox 360

Supported disc types

Supported disc drive speeds

Supported bit rate and resolution

Maximum bit rate and resolution

The Xbox 360 console does not block video from playing based on a maximum bit rate, resolution or frames per second (fps). Although content with a higher bit rate is not blocked, playback quality may be less than optimal. Use higher bit rates at your own risk.

Maximum supported video file size

The maximum file size for an MPEG-4 Part 2 or H.264 file is 4 GB. However, Windows Media Player 11 and the Zune software support streaming WMV files larger than 4 GB.

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Reason Two. Family settings restrict playback of this DVD

Solution Two:

Check your Xbox 360 console parental controls. These settings allow you to control which movies and TV shows you can watch on your console.

Reason Three. During DVD playback, a wireless microphone is disabled

Solution Three: While you don’t need a wireless microphone during DVD playback, if you’re chatting in an Xbox Live Party, this may not work while a DVD is playing. To continue chatting with your party, exit DVD playback and return to the Dashboard.

Reason Four: Status code errors

Solution Four: If you see a status code (such as 69-C00D36C4 or 80-C00DF242) when you try to play a video, see Fix Xbox 360 video problems.

One-Stop Solution to Stop Xbox 360 won’t play DVD

If all the above solutions don’t solve your issue, search you question at “FAQ for PlayStation/Xbox Movie Playing and Streaming” part, or you can try: the best one-stop solution to stream and play favorite DVD movies on Xbox 360- Get the content off the DVD disc as a protection-free and easily readable format for Xbox 360.

* Read DVD copyright laws in your country carefully before you decide to rip a DVD

Why it is much more preferable to rip DVD to Xbox 360 for playback further?

1. For DVDs that are watched over and over on Xbox 360, it gets to be a real pain to have to sit through one unskippable FBI warning or commercial after another on screen, and navigate through file menus with few clicks to get to the part of the DVD that you want to see. What if you don’t wanna bother to repeat the above process every time when you planning to play DVD on Xbox 360?

2. DVD is vulnerable to be scratched and even damaged due to day-after-day wear and tear. To make DVD ripped on Xbox 360 protects your precious DVDs in a safe way.

3. Only when the DVD region matches the region of your Xbox 360 can you play DVD on Xbox 360. It’s wise to remove region code from DVD and then playback on this game console.

4. If you are fascinated with a DVD movie borrowed from a friend or rent from a DVD store, to rip DVD to Xbox 360 can help you save the movie to Xbox hard drive to watch it anytime you want without worrying about when to return it.

5. Directly playing DVD on Xbox 360 is not recommended because of the high power consumption and high heat when reading DVD discs.

Best DVD to Xbox 360 Ripper:

In this case, at the first place a powerful third-party DVD ripper software for ripping DVD to Xbox 360 is what you need.

HandBrake is one of the best open source all-in-one video converter, DVD ripper and DVD ripper. If you just want to rip home-made DVDs for Xbox 360, you can use the free HandBrake.

Note: 

1. Handbrake cannot remove copy protections from encrypted DVDs, so it can only deal with home-made DVDs without DRM restrictions.

2. Handbrake only output .mkv and .mp4, which is not natively supported by Xbox 360, so you may have to use another free or paid DVD ripper to convert .mkv or .mp4 to .wmv video for playing on Xbox 360.

If you want to rip DVDs with copy protections with customized profile settings for Xbox 360, you may have to use the professional DVD ripper- Pavtube ByteCopy. (For Mac users, please refer to ByteCopy for Mac).

It carved a niche market out of the powerful and complete DVD backup and DVD conversion products, extract a chapter or make a full digital copy from a DVD to a video file in selected format, and then save on an external storage drive that’s connected to your Xbox 360 with fast ripping speed and excellent output video quality. It can rip commercial DVD encrypted with CSS encryption, region code, Sony ARccOS, UOPs, APS, RCE, etc. and has a well-designed interface that simplify the process of converting your DVD media to Xbox 360 compatible video files.

What’s more, we can also achieve the following things:

• Making DVD digital backup copies to prevent DVD from loss and damage, and facilitate convenient storage and finding of DVD movies.
• Its excellent DVD copy with multi-track feature makes DVD backup in the blink of an eye.
• Extract content of DVD to a digital file playable by Android/Apple/Windows devices, TV, game consoles.
• Some video editing features like trimming, cropping, rotating, adjusting video effects, inserting subtitles, etc. are provided to customize your videos.
• Works well on Windows-based computer, includes Windows 10.

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Guide: Convert DVD to Xbox 360 friendly video format

Step 1. Import your DVD movies

Insert your DVD disc into your DVD-ROM, run the DVD Ripper for Xbox 360 and click “Load file(s)” icon to load DVD movies. You can also import movies files from DVD folder, ISO image file.

Step 2. Choose output format

According to FAQ about video and audio playback on Xbox 360, the Xbox 360 supports a group of popular formats such as WMV, AVI, MPEG. Click on the drop-down menu of “Format” and then move your pointer to “Zune/Xbox 360 Device”. From the sub-list, the “Xbox 360 Video – Windows Media Video(*.wmv)”, “Xbox 360 Video (640*480)(*.wmv)”, “Xbox 360 HD Video(*.wmv)” are all the friendly formats for both Xbox 360 and Xbox One.

Tips: To better your DVD movie enjoyment before DVD to Xbox 360 conversion, you can click “Edit selected task” button in the main interface of the Xbox 360 DVD ripper, you can trim off the unwanted part, combine several clips into one file, crop off unwanted black bars of the DVD movie, etc.

Step 3. Start conversion

Click the “Convert” button; it will rip DVD video files to Xbox 360 supported file type immediately. You can find the process in the “Conversion” interface. When it finishes, click the “Open Output Folder” icon to quick locate the converted video. Now simply copy/stream files onto the Xbox 360 hard drive or any storage based media like NAS that’s connected to the Xbox 360.

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Extended Knowledge

How to use remote control when playing DVD?

You don’t even have to buy a special remote – your regular game controller will work as your remote. The Start button is your play/pause button. If you want to go back one chapter, press A then Skip Back or press LB. To go forward one chapter, press A then Skip Forward or press RB. Fast forward is done with the RT button and rewind is the LT button. If you want to see more controls, press either X or Y.

Those advanced controls include being able to activate subtitles, change the viewing angle, zoom in, set up a loop, and change your audio channel. You can also change the display mode during DVD playback by pressing A and then selecting Display. Your Xbox will remember that display setting for the same DVD the next time you watch it.

The display settings include Auto, which displays the native setting of the DVD, whether it’s 16 x 9 or 4 x 3. You can adjust it to letterbox to bring it up to full screen, or select full screen to eliminate the bars at the top and bottom of the screen. There’s also stretch, which makes a 4 x 3 resolution film fit a 16 x 9 screen, but everything will look a little strange.