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J_K_M_A_N:
I believe the connection on the Xbox is a 10mb connection so I don't think it matters.

I also use xbmc. It is a killer app. I need to make a video server to make it complete though.

J_K_M_A_N

shmokes:
The Xbox NIC does 10/100 Mb.

richms:
I find that dvd shrink always leaves visable artifacts, whereas xvid at a target size of 2.25 gigs is pretty good. That lets me get 2 movies on one disc normally, and IMO is better then dvd shrunk mpeg2 (but isnt watchable on a standard dvd player)

In either case, I also strip all the audio except the english 5.1 in whichever the best it has is.

Be aware that a dvd with only a dts soundtrack is technically non standards compliant. But I dont really care since everything I have is ok with dts.

J_K_M_A_N:

--- Quote from: shmokes on October 05, 2006, 09:02:02 pm ---The Xbox NIC does 10/100 Mb.

--- End quote ---

Why does it seem so slow then?!? I don't think I can get anywhere near 100mb.

J_K_M_A_N

shmokes:
Probably cos FTP is slow and has quite a bit of overhead.  If you FTP games over using Qwix on your PC and Avalaunch on the Xbox you will saturate the entire 100 Mb bandwidth.  Those programs use a non-standard burst mode that isn't part of the normal FTP protocol.

Another thing that makes network performance seem slow to people is that the speeds are measured in megabits per second, not megabytes.  So people see Mb/sec and don't notice the lowercase b, so they expect the network speed to be eight times as fast as it is.  So if you're transfering stuff over at anything faster than about 1.2 megabytes per second you're already beyond the speed of a 10mb connection.  You may already know all this, but I thought it might possibly be the cause of the confusion.

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