Xbox 360 .mkv playback

MKV isn't a video format, it's a container like a lot people here have mentioned.
The best way to do it is to install haali media splitter (you probably already have it in some way or sort).
Get mkvextract.exe, there should be a gui version of this too.
Then re-mux them with something like mp4box (for mp4 of course). I don't have a 360 so I don't know what's the mp4 support on that. Also I am not sure what kind of codec 360 actually support. But I'd imagine most of the common profile should be supported.
Also doing it this way will not change the video/audio quality at all because you are doing nothing to the a/v stream, instead you are just changing how they are packaged.
One problem is that MKV support a lot more "softsub" format than MP4.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by Soluzar

What you suggest works, but it's a lot of extra fuss every time you download some animu.

Actually I find that to be the easiest =(
Since you can easily script these things to process the entire directly at once with a single command line entry.
The usual GUI "freeware" I see that does it not only botch a lot of things, it's also way more cumbersome to process many files at once.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by Soluzar

Really now? I find the easiest to be transcoding and streaming on-the-fly. It requires no real prep-work. Admittedly I use my PS3, but... there's no reason it can't work on the 360. I didn't find TVersity all that great, so instead I'm using Playstation 3 Media Server (PMS) but despite the name it also kinda works on 360. I dare say it will work better as more time passes.

Well, I don't want to get into an argument of what's the defacto easiest way to do this, since it varies from person to person.
I haven't visited gamingforce for nearly 8 years =P. Lets start by playing nice!

Anyways I only have a PS3 also. I find transcode on the fly and stream is a significant quality loss issue. Also it requires you to have a reasonably good PC which the OP doesn't have. My method include no need for re-encoding anything, it's just copying the stream out of a wrapper and putting it back into another wrapper.

The method might have a deep learning curve for some, but in the end. All you need to do to convert a full directory of mkv file to mp4 is simply type mkv2mp4 *.

Well for everyone there is a "best" way to do things for many things. and that way can be very different for each individual. As a video enthusiast I love messing around with these things so I guess by already have went over the learning curve to operate these tools, maybe it's best for me =)

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.