Bad article. Divx 7 adds support for popular video formats. Nothing about DivX 7 is at all related to piracy. This is like claiming an MP3 CD player supports downloaded or stolen songs. It does, but that's not the point, Steve O'Hear. Moron.
Steve O'Hear
· 10 months ago
@Xander
A quick reality check. The original DivX became popular, in part, because it was (for better or worse) the format used most often for DVD rips found on filesharing sites. Outside of the codec connoisseurs, I never heard of anybody requesting DivX support on their consumer electronics devices other than to play back rips, most of which weren't of their own creation. Likewise, I and just about anybody outside of the format wars, have rarely, if ever, encountered an .MKV file that wasn't a Blu-ray or HD-DVD rip floating somewhere on the interwebs. If you read the article carefully, I never suggested that pirated content was the only use for an MKV (it is just a container like AVI) but that it was a very common one. People who claim otherwise are being a little disingenuous IMHO.
Frank
· 10 months ago
Still no 64 bit support? Bummer!
punterjoe
· 10 months ago
I'm glad to see DivX keeping up with other HD formats. It's been my burning format of choice for home videos, since there are so many DVD players which support the format - greatly easing distribution. After taking a bath on my HD-DVD player, I have gone out of my way to avoid BluRay (or any Sony developed format). I look forward to seeing DivX7 support on stand alone devices, and will likely be among the first in line when they hit the shelves. I only hope my current HD editing/rendering workflow can be easily modified to accomodate the new DivX codec.
Alex
· 10 months ago
I'm pretty excited about this. I rip all of my DVDs on a USB hard drive in DivX format and just keep that plugged into my PS3. Hopefully this will let me do the same with my Blu-ray movies (though I sure wish the PS3 could read a filesystem that didn't have a 4GB file size limit. Splitting movies into multiple files kinda stinks, and I'm sure that HD movies (even with great compression and encoded at 720p) will need more than just 4GB to retain their pretty quality. <=\
Xander
· 10 months ago
@ Steve Sorry for calling you a moron. I think conflating digital content with filesharing hurts the position that putting media on a hard drive facilitates *playing the media*.
There are 2 problems with your position. First, the file format has nothing to do with the source - blu-ray rips can go into any container. I'm willing to bet DivX is supporting the MKV container for the same reason that consumers are using it.
More critically, until Hollywod embraces DRM-free digital distribution (long shot, I know), any freely-playable video file will be "grey" content. So the claim that DivX is supporting a filesharing format is strictly weaker than the claim that they are supporting a popular format. I don't think it is at all disingenuous to claim that people don't just rip their media to share it. Ripping ought to be a perfectly legitimate use of purchased media - hard drives will always be better than plastic discs at file storage.
You got it right when you characterized H.264/MKV as "a popular way to deliver High Definition video on a PC." Just because Hollywood didn't get the memo doesn't make the format any less legitimate.
Steve O'Hear
· 10 months ago
@Xander
Thanks for retracting the moron statement. I was worried there for a minute ;-)
I actually think we mostly agree and are talking across each other a bit here. Of course ripping the media you own is perfectly alright, all I was arguing is that certain formats have won over others because, for whatever reason (perhaps because they were superior?), they become popular for pirated content. Then DivX (the company) helped push non-PC support for said formats (DVD players, PMPs etc.).
I too hate DRM, that's why I sourced a non-DRM solution for my own movie - insearchofthevalley.com
xanadu
· 10 months ago
Will this come in VLC Player?
GavB
· 10 months ago
Xander:
Being capable (more or less in your case) of reading does not itself impute validity for any opinions/assessments/assertions/assumptions and the alarming speed with which you make "moronic" (your word) assertions about the author of this article proves that beyond doubt. The immediate retraction is of little value as the harm has been done. I suggest that in future you think before writing such cretinous comments on websites.
The article did not IMHO make the assertion that DivX (a rather decent format - again IMHO) was solely used for pirating, YOU decided to interpret it that way........ Go off and eat some humble pie and learn a little about life before you make such arrogant and ignorant assessments of other people......
I should add that I have been victim or such moronic assessments all of my life as I have a stammer and I really feel that someone has to make a stand against this vapid and vaucous use of value judgements from people obviously ill-equipped to make such judgements... Oops! I seem to have made a lazy value judgement myself! :-)
Hope that you can see the value in my criticism and learn a lesson or two.. Have fun!
sileNT
· 10 months ago
What's the relationship between DivX and XVid?
Gis Bun
· 10 months ago
If I'm not mistake, XVid is the open source version of DivX.
cng
· 10 months ago
So will this speed things along with getting .MKV support on the xbox360?
Steve O'Hear
· 10 months ago
@cng
As far as I know, the XBox 360 isn't officially DivX certified. Even if it was, it's down to Microsoft whether or not to add MKV support. Anybody's guess.
bosko
· 10 months ago
The xbox 360 got official support for divx over a year ago.
"Q9: Do you support DivX? A9: The Xbox 360 console supports files that were encoded by using MPEG-4 Part 2, Simple Profile, and Advanced Simple Profile. These files frequently are known as Xvid or DivX video files."
Steve O'Hear
· 10 months ago
@ bosko
To clarify. XBox 360 can play back "MPEG-4 Part 2, Simple Profile, and Advanced Simple Profile" AKA DivX files but, as I said, isn't officially "DivX Certified" by DivX themselves, unlike the PlayStation 3. This, of course, makes little difference in reality.
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A quick reality check. The original DivX became popular, in part, because it was (for better or worse) the format used most often for DVD rips found on filesharing sites. Outside of the codec connoisseurs, I never heard of anybody requesting DivX support on their consumer electronics devices other than to play back rips, most of which weren't of their own creation. Likewise, I and just about anybody outside of the format wars, have rarely, if ever, encountered an .MKV file that wasn't a Blu-ray or HD-DVD rip floating somewhere on the interwebs. If you read the article carefully, I never suggested that pirated content was the only use for an MKV (it is just a container like AVI) but that it was a very common one. People who claim otherwise are being a little disingenuous IMHO.
After taking a bath on my HD-DVD player, I have gone out of my way to avoid BluRay (or any Sony developed format). I look forward to seeing DivX7 support on stand alone devices, and will likely be among the first in line when they hit the shelves.
I only hope my current HD editing/rendering workflow can be easily modified to accomodate the new DivX codec.
Sorry for calling you a moron. I think conflating digital content with filesharing hurts the position that putting media on a hard drive facilitates *playing the media*.
There are 2 problems with your position. First, the file format has nothing to do with the source - blu-ray rips can go into any container. I'm willing to bet DivX is supporting the MKV container for the same reason that consumers are using it.
More critically, until Hollywod embraces DRM-free digital distribution (long shot, I know), any freely-playable video file will be "grey" content. So the claim that DivX is supporting a filesharing format is strictly weaker than the claim that they are supporting a popular format. I don't think it is at all disingenuous to claim that people don't just rip their media to share it. Ripping ought to be a perfectly legitimate use of purchased media - hard drives will always be better than plastic discs at file storage.
You got it right when you characterized H.264/MKV as "a popular way to deliver High Definition video on a PC." Just because Hollywood didn't get the memo doesn't make the format any less legitimate.
Thanks for retracting the moron statement. I was worried there for a minute ;-)
I actually think we mostly agree and are talking across each other a bit here. Of course ripping the media you own is perfectly alright, all I was arguing is that certain formats have won over others because, for whatever reason (perhaps because they were superior?), they become popular for pirated content. Then DivX (the company) helped push non-PC support for said formats (DVD players, PMPs etc.).
I too hate DRM, that's why I sourced a non-DRM solution for my own movie - insearchofthevalley.com
Being capable (more or less in your case) of reading does not itself impute validity for any opinions/assessments/assertions/assumptions and the alarming speed with which you make "moronic" (your word) assertions about the author of this article proves that beyond doubt. The immediate retraction is of little value as the harm has been done. I suggest that in future you think before writing such cretinous comments on websites.
The article did not IMHO make the assertion that DivX (a rather decent format - again IMHO) was solely used for pirating, YOU decided to interpret it that way........ Go off and eat some humble pie and learn a little about life before you make such arrogant and ignorant assessments of other people......
I should add that I have been victim or such moronic assessments all of my life as I have a stammer and I really feel that someone has to make a stand against this vapid and vaucous use of value judgements from people obviously ill-equipped to make such judgements... Oops! I seem to have made a lazy value judgement myself! :-)
Hope that you can see the value in my criticism and learn a lesson or two.. Have fun!
As far as I know, the XBox 360 isn't officially DivX certified. Even if it was, it's down to Microsoft whether or not to add MKV support. Anybody's guess.
http://support.xbox.com/support/en/us/xbox360/k...
"Q9: Do you support DivX?
A9: The Xbox 360 console supports files that were encoded by using MPEG-4 Part 2, Simple Profile, and Advanced Simple Profile. These files frequently are known as Xvid or DivX video files."
To clarify. XBox 360 can play back "MPEG-4 Part 2, Simple Profile, and Advanced Simple Profile" AKA DivX files but, as I said, isn't officially "DivX Certified" by DivX themselves, unlike the PlayStation 3. This, of course, makes little difference in reality.