Movie links not getting labeled correctly?

I was wondering if other people have been having the same problem as myself. There are three basic movie types, AVI, MP4, and MKV. Lately, it seems that movies I’m trying to download I can’t find what kind they are. I download movies, then transfer onto a flash drive, them my kids watch it on the xbox 360. It only recognizes AVi & MP4. Not MKV. In the past, if a file had XVID in the discription, you could pretty much bet it was a AVI file. Not true anymore, it seems like its a mkv file alot now. When it says 720p x 264 etc. it doesn’t help me. I need to know what its extention is AVI, MP4 , OR MKV. And because its harder to find out, its takes so much longer to download a movie. And I can’t tell you how many times I’ve downloaded the wrong movie.
Don’t get me wrong, hats off to the members who take the time to upload all these movies etc. I can’t tell you how much I appreciate it. But just wondering, is it me? Or are movies not getting labeled correctly more often these days? Just curious, and thanks for your time . . . Sue
Answer #1
What U mean the wrong Movie…
U mean the file name.. mp4 /mp3/avi etc;
That does not matter…. even if u do U can convert them size e`m to anything U want.
ED: Nothing wrong with MKV I have no problemo with plaaybacks. Maybe Your PS3 is biting the dust.. ?
Answer #2
Yes, I mean their file name extention . . . AVI, MP4, OR MKV usually. I have an older system, and for some reason not only does XBOX 360 not recognize MKV files, my computers have a hard time playing them (all chopppy and broken up). And sure I could convert them to anything I want. Having an older system though, and the processing power converting takes . . it just takes too long.
Answer #3
You will have a very hard time playing container formats like MKV on 3rd party systems with out codecs.
Why don’t you just look at the file extension before downloading? And not the tag…
Answer #4
Because they are usually in a rar file. I don’t know the extension until its extracted.
Answer #5
Because they are usually in a rar file. I don’t know the extension until its extracted.
Answer #6
“”ED: Nothing wrong with MKV I have no problemo with plaaybacks. Maybe Your PS3 is biting the dust.. ?””
I have a xbox 360, and it will not only not play them, it doesn’t even recognize the file!!
Answer #7
If you get stuck with an .mkv and you want to play it on your Xbox, then you may be able to change the container from .mkv by using Mkv2vob….It only takes a minute or so because you are only changing containers but not transcoding the video..
It’s mainly done for the PS3 but this post sounds hopeful, so I would give it a whirl..
http://jkoblovsky.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/fast-encoding-for-mkv-files-mkv2vob/
Other methods are shown here..
http://www.videohelp.com/search?q=convert+mkv+for+xbox360
Yes, if you see 720p X264 on a movie it is about 95% going to be .mkv and maybe 5% .mp4..
Good Luck !
Answer #8
I can also suggest looking into Universal Media Server. You run this program on the PC, and it streams the files over the network. Loads of devices are supported, like the xbox360, PS3, iPad, and loads of others. This saves you some time on converting movies.
http://www.universalmediaserver.com/
Answer #9
Or if you don’t need a server, then just a dedicated media player for the TV would do the trick..
http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/MULTI-MEDIA-UPSCALING-FULL-HD-1080P-HDMI-PLAYER-USB-SDHC-MKV-AVI-RMVB-RM-H-264/181119502370?_trksid=p2045573.m2102&_trkparms=aid%3D555012%26algo%3DPW.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D298%26meid%3D3671486710934586293%26pid%3D100034%26prg%3D1079%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D8%26sd%3D281197558995%26