Xbox Video Archive - View and Download Old Xbox Videos

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What is the Xbox Video Archive?

This is a collection of HD videos I downloaded from Xbox Live during the early days of the Xbox 360. This content was downloaded from the Xbox 360 dashboard from 2005 to 2009 ish.

Some of this content such as the E3 coverage was only available for a very limited time. What is pretty unique is that all this content was available in 720p HD. High definition content was pretty scarce on the internet back in 2006, i'm pretty certain back then even YouTube only supported very badly compressed 360p flash video. Video quality on gaming websites such as IGN and GameSpot was not that great either from what I remember.

How did you get this content?

I used to download content from Xbox Live on to my 360's 20gb hard drive to watch it, you couldn't stream video on the Xbox 360 dashboard back then, it had to be downloaded. My internet was only 2mb back then so even downloading these videos that we're several 100's of mb took a while at the time.

I remember my 360's hard drive gradually filled up with this content, I then used the Datel XSATA to extract the content from my 360.

Once I had the content on my PC it was extracted with wxPirs to reveal the WMV video file. I kept these video files and burned them to a DVD-R once I had enough to fill a DVD on my PC. I'd actually forgotten about this until recently when I was randomly asked if I had any old video content from the early Xbox 360 days. I managed to find these DVD-R's after not using them again for over 10 years.

I guess you could say this content is becoming "retro" now with a lot of it been over 10 years old. As I was asked to share this I thought i'd try and do my bit to keep it available.

Where can I watch / download this Xbox Live Video Archive?

At the moment i plan to upload these videos to YouTube as I believe that will be the most accessible way to watch them. I've setup a new YouTube channel called Xbox Archive to make these available. I don't really want to flood the Digiex YouTube channel with this content.

After these are uploaded to the Xbox Archive YouTube channel i'll likely create a torrent with all 104 videos available in their original format.

What videos do you have?

Video content i downloaded was limited to the few games I was really interested in at the time and the E3 events.

• E3 2006, 2007 and 2008
• Crackdown
• Gears of War 1 & 2
• Halo 3
• Halo Wars
• Tomb Raider Underworld
• A few more random games, full list below:

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Army of Two Gameplay Trailer 2
Army of Two Gameplay Trailer
Bomberman LIVE HD
Bringing it Home Halo Wars Trailer
Burnout Paradise
Crackdown - Keys to The City
Crackdown - New Equipment
Crackdown - New Game Types
Crackdown - New Vehicles
Crackdown - Street Racing
E3 06 Backstage Pass - Friday
E3 06 Backstage Pass - Thursday
E3 06 Backstage Pass - Wednesday
E3 06 DDR Universe Trailer
E3 06 Gears of War Trailer
E3 06 Gears Of War
E3 06 Shadowrun Backstage Pass
E3 06 Showfloor Behind the Scenes
E3 06 Xbox Press Briefing
E3 07 Games For Windows Montage (HD)
E3 07 Stage Demo
E3 07 UT3 Trailer
E3 07 Xbox 360 Games Montage (HD)
E3 07 Xbox Live Arcade (HD)
E3 08 Gears of War 2 Reception
E3 08 Trailer Rendezvous
Epic Studio Visit
Family Guy Vol. 4 DVD Sneak Peek
Gears of War - Garden Gameplay
Gears of War - Marsh Gameplay
Gears of War - Process Gameplay
Gears of War - Subway Gameplay
Gears of War - Top 5 Achievements Trailer
Gears of War - Top 5 Battles Trailer
Gears of War - Top 5 Locust Trailer
Gears of War - Top 5 Weapons Trailer
Gears of War 2 - Delta Blues Trailer
Gears of War 2 - Duel Trailer
Gears of War 2 - Enter the Horde Trailer
Gears of War 2 - GDC 2008 Unreal Engine 3
Gears of War 2 - Last Day Trailer
Gears of War 2 - Never Fight Alone Trailer
Gears of War 2 Demo Trailer
Gears of War 2
Gears of War Map Pack 1 Video
Gears of War Promotional Ad
Geometry Wars 2 Retro Evolved
Geometry Wars Retro Evolved 2
Golden Axe Beast Rider Trailer 3 (US)
GOW2 Campaign Gameplay Reveal
GOW2 Trailer Every Gun has a Story
GOW2 Trailer Touch the Sound
Grand Theft Auto IV
GTA 4 Trailer 3
GTA IV - Exclusive Xbox TV Campaign
GTA IV - Trailer 4
GTA IV Box art unveiled
GTA IV Trailer 2
Halo 3 1st TV Commercial
Halo 3 Announcement
Halo 3 Believe Ad
Halo 3 Believe TV Ad
Halo 3 E3 2007 Trailer
Halo 3 European Premieres
Halo 3 In the Beginning
Halo 3 KEEP IT CLEAN
Halo 3 Legendary Map Pack ViDoc
Halo 3 Legendary Pack Darkness Trailer
Halo 3 Making of the Diorama
Halo 3 Multiplayer Vidoc
Halo 3 Our Favorite Things Video
Halo 3 Recon Trailer
Halo 3 ViDoc And on the Seven7th Day...
Halo 3 ViDoc Cinema Paradiso
Halo 3 ViDoc Et Tu, Brute
Halo 3 ViDoc Journey's End
Halo Arms Race
Halo Landfall
Halo Wars E3 2007 First Look Trailer
Halo Wars Trailer
Halo Wars
Microsoft Booth Tour
New Xbox Experience (HD)
On10 E3 07 Wrap Up
PSA Halo 3 Beta
Quantum of Solace - Exclusive Bond Trailer
Red vs Blue Holiday 2006 Video
Red vs Blue Out of Mind Part Five
Red vs Blue Out of Mind Part Four
Red vs Blue Out of Mind Part One
Red vs Blue Out of Mind Part Three
Red vs Blue Out of Mind Part Two
Red vs. Blue - The Full Circle
Red vs. Blue D.I.Y.
Sonic Unleashed
The Orange Box E3 2007 Trailer
The Simpsons Movie
Tomb Raider Underworld - Beneath The Surface - 1
Tomb Raider Underworld - Beneath The Surface - 2
Tomb Raider Underworld - Teaser Trailer
Unreal Tournament 3 Gamers Day Trailer
UT3 Exclusive Launch Video
Welcome to Emergence Day
Xbox LIVE Arcade Montage

View: Xbox Video Archive on YouTube

Download: Xbox Video Archive on Internet Archive

If you are interested in downloading the untouched video files then click "Windows Media" on the internet archive download options and you will be able to directly download these. Internet Archive seems to be gradually converting these to Mpeg 4, which is a more universally supported format. Either way you have options now on how to watch these videos.

Clicking the "160 Original" should download everything I originally uploaded in a zip file which is 22.7GB:



Enjoy!

 

Yes I should still have these, I can check when I'm home.

 

Here you go! <link removed>

 

I still have all the ones listed in the first post. Give me a week or two and i'll upload them all to the internet archive. Then people can download the original wmv's and do whatever they want with them.

 

Everything is finally uploaded on both YouTube and Internet Archive, so you can easily stream these on YouTube or download the original WMV video files.

View: Xbox Video Archive on YouTube

Download: Xbox Video Archive on Internet Archive

If you are interested in downloading the untouched video files then click "Windows Media" on the internet archive download options and you will be able to directly download these. Internet Archive seems to be gradually converting these to Mpeg 4, which is a more universally supported format. Either way you have options now on how to watch these videos.

Clicking the "160 Original" should download everything I originally uploaded in a zip file which is 22.7GB:



Enjoy!