What's the best way to rip a Blu-ray disc to an Xbox 360 compatible format, while preferably maintaining surround sound and as little video encoding as possible? As far as I can tell, the 360 technically supports both AVC and VC-1 (though if at those bit rates is questionable), so I'm kind of hoping that you could do it without actually re-encoding the video at all and, instead, just processing the audio and the re-muxing everything together in a new file.
Ripping Blu-Ray for Xbox 360 with Minimal Encoding
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No, there are no Xbox 360 emulators. The most basic reason is that the Xbox 360 uses a triple-core 3.2 GHz PowerPC processor, and desktop PCs use x86 processors.
Because they are different CPU architectures, the emulator would have to translate the PowerPC machine code into x86 machine code on the fly, which takes a significant amount of processing power. As a general rule of thumb, expect the emulated software to run 10 times slower in an emulated environment. So we would need triple-core x86 processors running at 30 GHz.
(There are many other factors, and this is just the most basic first hurdle. These numbers are also just ballpark estimates: there is a lot of variation in emulation methods and different processors are not directly comparable on a clock speed basis. But this gives you the basic gist of the problem.)
From: Video Playback FAQ - Xbox Engineering MSDN Blogs
Xbox 360 supports the following:
AVI
- File Extensions: .avi, .divx
- Containers: AVI
- Video Profiles: MPEG-4 Part 2, Simple & Advanced Simple Profile
- Video Bitrate: 5 Mbps with resolutions of 1280 x 720 at 30fps.
- Audio Profiles: Dolby® Digital 2 channel and 5.1 channel, MP3
- Audio Max Bitrate: No restrictions.
H.264
- File Extensions: .mp4, .m4v, mp4v, .mov
- Containers: MPEG-4, QuickTime
- Video Profiles: Baseline, main, and high (up to Level 4.1) profiles.
- Video Bitrate: 10 Mbps with resolutions of 1920 x 1080 at 30fps.
- Audio Profiles: 2 channel AAC low complexity (LC)
- Audio Max Bitrate: No restrictions.
MPEG-4
- File Extensions: .mp4, .m4v, .mp4v, .mov
- Containers: MPEG-4, QuickTime
- Video Profiles: Simple & Advanced Simple Profile
- Video Bitrate: 5 Mbps with resolutions of 1280 x 720 at 30fps.
- Audio Profiles: 2 channel AAC low complexity (LC)
- Audio Max Bitrate: No restrictions.
WMV
- File Extensions: .wmv
- Container: asf
- Video Profiles: WMV7 (WMV1), WMV8 (WMV2), WMV9 (WMV3), VC-1 (WVC1 or WMVA) in simple, main, and advanced up to Level 3
- Video Bitrate: 15 Mbps with resolutions of 1920 x 1080 at 30fps.
- Audio Profiles: WMA7/8, WMA 9 Pro (stereo and 5.1), WMA lossless
- Audio Max Bitrate: No restrictions.
Best Answer
The Xbox 360 only supports MPEG2, MPEG4, H.264, or WMV. It also only supports up to 15Mbps bitrate. Blu-Ray movies are encoded at anywhere form 15Mbps to 40Mbps. That also depends on what codec the blu-ray is encoded in which could either be MPEG2, AVC, or VC-1. When you say the 360 supports AVC and VC-1 that is only when using them in a WMV file format. Any other format the Xbox supports is constrained to MPEG4/h.264. The easiest way to backup your blu-ray movies is to use something like DVDFab which will encode the movie to an HD, 360 compatible WMV. It won't look as good as the original movie but it can still be in 1080p with 5.1 surround sound.
Blu-Ray BitRates and Codecs
Xbox 360 Compatible Codecs