# Avi files on a 360? **URL:** \ **Category:** NYSpeed Off Topic\ **Created:** [March 4, 2010, 6:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/avi-files-on-a-360/79947 "2010-03-04T06:19:59Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BigRon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58956e/32.png) [@BigRon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BigRon)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 6:19am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/avi-files-on-a-360/79947/1 "2010-03-04T06:19:59Z")
Anyway to play avi movie files off a portable hard drive on a 360? The songs work fine but it says that it does not support the format or something like that for movies. My xbox is not hacked and has all the updates. ---
**Author:** ![IanK](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/iank/32/5016_2.png) [@IanK](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/IanK)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 6:49am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/avi-files-on-a-360/79947/2 "2010-03-04T06:49:17Z")
Im not 100% sure on this, but most blu-ray rips i see that claim to be 360 compatible are almost always WMV. ---
**Author:** ![pirite](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/pirite/32/5308_2.png) [@pirite](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/pirite)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 7:25am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/avi-files-on-a-360/79947/3 "2010-03-04T07:25:30Z")
[avi on 360](http://lmgtfy.com/?q=AVI+on+xbox+360) [hooking up an external to your 360](http://www.highdefforum.com/626166-post7.html) ---
**Author:** ![BigRon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58956e/32.png) [@BigRon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BigRon)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 8:51am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/avi-files-on-a-360/79947/4 "2010-03-04T08:51:39Z")
I already stated that the hard drive is working with the 360 when I am playing music. So I don’t think I need to format it. And yes I did a quick google search before posting here “playing divx files 360” and most were blocked at work and the others were not informative or definite. ---
**Author:** ![Tunerfreak](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tunerfreak/32/7427_2.png) [@Tunerfreak](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tunerfreak)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 9:22am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/avi-files-on-a-360/79947/5 "2010-03-04T09:22:35Z")
to play avi files on 360 you have to download a plug-in. i forgot exactly what it says but there is a download option when that error comes up ---
**Author:** ![BigRon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/58956e/32.png) [@BigRon](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/BigRon)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 9:24am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/avi-files-on-a-360/79947/6 "2010-03-04T09:24:54Z")
I downloaded the plug in after the error but they still didn’t work. Do you need to restart the system or is there more too it? ---
**Author:** ![Tunerfreak](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/tunerfreak/32/7427_2.png) [@Tunerfreak](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/Tunerfreak)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 9:30am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/avi-files-on-a-360/79947/7 "2010-03-04T09:30:01Z")
i dont think so but i did find that every time i wanted to watch an avi file i had to be online in order to. there were also a few times where an avi file would not play on it for some reason, maybe format was different? ---
**Author:** ![rdandy5875](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/rdandy5875/32/7511_2.png) [@rdandy5875](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/rdandy5875)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 9:48am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/avi-files-on-a-360/79947/8 "2010-03-04T09:48:47Z")
I play avi’s through my 360, but stream them from my computer with azureus, so I can’t really help. Maybe change your setup to stream from a pc if you can’t get it to work. ---
**Author:** ![JayS](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/jays/32/15375_2.png) [@JayS](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/JayS)\ **Post date:** [March 4, 2010, 10:43am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/avi-files-on-a-360/79947/9 "2010-03-04T10:43:08Z")
I used to do this with my 360 before I bought a Popcorn Hour for streaming. The 360 is very limited when it comes to video formats and won’t even play a lot of Divx stuff even after installing the divx codec. So chances are you just have a format it won’t support. If it was the supported divx codec it would just prompt you to automatically install the update if the update hadn’t been installed yet. Cliffs: If you want to play movies files on your TV get a real media streamer.