What format is the video supposed to be I can't get it to play.

I modded my broken Xbox to try out XBMC and it's pretty cool especially considering that it's an underground kind of thing. I didn't play with it much though because I wanted it for the audio playback and it didn't have the features I want.

What are you planing on doing playing DVD rips from the HDD / network or are you talking about playing actual DVDs ?