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No? Watching http://trailers.divx.com/divx_... just fine on my Acer C720; CPU hasn't bumped over over 40%.

True, but the AC is still right. I've looked at the comparisons and like it has been said elsewhere: VP9 is better than VP8, but that's about it.

See for yourself:
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?p=1620230#post1620230

The third line in that posts links to this image, showing snapshots from the comparison between VP8, VP9, AVC (x264) and HEVC (HM10): http://i3.minus.com/i5vzrESbfwCmX.png

HEVC is just an absolute beast in (perceptual) video compression. If you look at the bitrates here, you assume that the videos must be crap, but they look ridiculously good. And that is with an early days reference encoder!

I suspect that linear scaling comes close enough for a ballpark estimate.

I wish I could find a graph, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't. Encoding a blue sky would be relatively more efficient in higher resolutions.
IIRC, file size also doesnt scale linearly with frame rate, due to the generally relatively low amount of information added by the extra frames.
Another thing not to forget is that a lot of the new digitally recorded material is generally fairly noise-free, which allows for huge savings in encoding.

As always with video, seeing is believing. You should check out the sample material here: http://labs.divx.com/node/127909
or here: http://www.elecard.com/en/download/videos.html
The video bitrates just seem absolutely ridiculous, until you actually look at the videos and see the quality.

DivX HiQ already does cross-browser H.264 in MKV/MP4/MOV with MP3 and AAC support, and ASP in AVI/DivX.
http://labs.divx.com/node/14711

It also supports DXVA acceleration for H.264, and it's available on Mac too. It's still in beta and has its quirks but given the discussion I'm surprised it's not mentioned more :)

Not only do they have to not distribute ffdshow, they also have to not even tell anyone about ffdshow for fear of running afoul of the "inducement" precedent set in MPAA v. Grokster.

They can tell them about one of the free or cheap H.264 decoders you can download. All of them properly licensed so there is no legal problem. They can probably even make some money for promoting them.

If you're playing HD MKV files on Windows 7 just install DivX for Windows. It includes a media foundation component that lets Windows Media Player read the MKV file then decode it using DXVA. If you don't want to install the whole DivX bundle you can even get the component standalone from DivX Labs.

It doesn't support the mkv container, which it should, since it's now reconized by DivX (v7) and the PS3 is DivX certified.

http://www.divx.com/en/mkv
http://support.divx.com/faq/view/supportFAQen038/DivX%20on%20the%20Sony%20Playstation%203

Until included natively, PS3MediaServer is the best solution - real time transcoding as the GP said.

It doesn't support the mkv container, which it should, since it's now reconized by DivX (v7) and the PS3 is DivX certified.

http://www.divx.com/en/mkv
http://support.divx.com/faq/view/supportFAQen038/DivX%20on%20the%20Sony%20Playstation%203

Until included natively, PS3MediaServer is the best solution - real time transcoding as the GP said.

Actually, the XBOX 360 can do mkv containers thanks to a plugin (beta status) from xvid. Check this out: http://labs.divx.com/mkvwin7preview Works great....

And that's transcoding, as I mentioned. It does work, though I've only tried it through the media center extender interface. I don't know if it works through the dashboard UPnP AV streaming or not. Even so, I'd still prefer a non-transcoding solution, ultimately.

Actually, the XBOX 360 can do mkv containers thanks to a plugin (beta status) from xvid. Check this out: http://labs.divx.com/mkvwin7preview Works great....

The DivX people now also support DivX Plus, which is H.264/AAC/MKV including surround sound, multilingual subtitles, chapter points, metadata, multiple titles, and more :)

Check it out:
http://www.divx.com/en/electronics/solutions/high-definition/divx-plus-hd-showcase

DivX Plus devices were also announced at CES. Look for Blu-Ray players from Philips and the FreeAgent Theater+ HD Media Player from Seagate initially. There's even a Handbrake preset here.

- Al / DivX person ;)

The DivX people now also support DivX Plus, which is H.264/AAC/MKV including surround sound, multilingual subtitles, chapter points, metadata, multiple titles, and more :)

Check it out:
http://www.divx.com/en/electronics/solutions/high-definition/divx-plus-hd-showcase

DivX Plus devices were also announced at CES. Look for Blu-Ray players from Philips and the FreeAgent Theater+ HD Media Player from Seagate initially. There's even a Handbrake preset here.

- Al / DivX person ;)

There are hundreds of millions of consumer elctronics devices on the market that can play DivX. Many on them, including my Phillips DVD player, will also play Xvid without additional conversion. Besides having DivX conversion software, I have other converters that will handle pretty much everything going and coming, including the 'proprietary' DivX. DivX is signing up corporation after corporation to carry DivX compatibility on board http://investors.divx.com/search.cfm?keyword=certified DivX saw the need for an extended file format and chose MKV. That's been added to their latest version. The response has been less than stellar. It apparently solves a problem that most people don't have. DivX apparently does, and anyone that doesn't care for the 'proprietary' aspect gets most of that functionality and less money shelled out via Xvid.

Just a quick look through the latest 100 movie file on TPB show 1 MKV, 1 MP4, 98 AVI.

So why should I listen to this Handbrake? What protocol have they developed? Oh, none. So what did they develop? The ability to use other peoples' protocols? I see. Well, I imagine doing that comes with some understanding of those other formats. So why haven't I heard about them before now? I seem to have done just fine without having heard about them before. Maybe more to the point, why am I only hearing about them now? Slashdotvertising? In any case, 'obsolete' is a strange thing to call 98% (by my simple straw poll) acceptance, unless one is using it in the sense that the marketoids do: "it means I want you to use what I say based on what I say about something else, betting on the fact that you don't know shit about any of it except that you wouldn't be caught dead using anything but the newest bestest thing. Which we will tell you when it comes available. Like we did last time." If I hear anymore about Handbrake I suspect it'll be this same message, until they just stop.

Protip: DivX Plus is H.264/AAC/MKV, and DivX desktop software has been playing and creating it for the past year. DivX Plus Web Player lets you embed it in your web pages and serve it from any HTTP server, and the first DivX Plus certified devices were announced at CES. You can even find DivX Plus presets for Handbrake here!

Without commenting on why Handbrake has dropped support for AVI (I'm sure they have their reasons), it is a simply bit of a shame for users looking to make highly portable content. DivX is one of the most widely supported formats on devices ranging from portable media players, DVD and Blu-Ray players, digital TV's, set-top boxes, and even mobile phones. It's always been a major goal to make it extremely easy for people to take content from their computer and move it into their living room or take it with them on the go, and there are now over 250 million DivX devices out there.

There is of course now also DivX Plus, which uses H.264/AAC/MKV, and Handbrake can still output that. You can actually already find a preset for Handbrake here. Devices certified for DivX Plus will be arriving this year, with announcements already covering Philips and Seagate. DivX Plus Web Player already supports these files so you can upload your DivX or DivX Plus file to any standard HTTP server and embed it directly in your web pages. It enables viewers to watch these files in embedded, windowed, or full-screen modes and save them for device transfer later. DivX Player provides free playback on Windows and Mac, and we also include an MKV splitter for Microsoft Media Foundation in Windows 7. By consequence of that, you can watch DivX Plus files with hardware acceleration and already stream them to Windows Media Center Extender and UPNP devices.

So again, for so many people who own DivX devices, it's unfortunate, but there are also many other tools out there that will do the job. It's at least nice to see them supporting MKV, which will work in DivX Plus devices in future.

Without commenting on why Handbrake has dropped support for AVI (I'm sure they have their reasons), it is a simply bit of a shame for users looking to make highly portable content. DivX is one of the most widely supported formats on devices ranging from portable media players, DVD and Blu-Ray players, digital TV's, set-top boxes, and even mobile phones. It's always been a major goal to make it extremely easy for people to take content from their computer and move it into their living room or take it with them on the go, and there are now over 250 million DivX devices out there.

There is of course now also DivX Plus, which uses H.264/AAC/MKV, and Handbrake can still output that. You can actually already find a preset for Handbrake here. Devices certified for DivX Plus will be arriving this year, with announcements already covering Philips and Seagate. DivX Plus Web Player already supports these files so you can upload your DivX or DivX Plus file to any standard HTTP server and embed it directly in your web pages. It enables viewers to watch these files in embedded, windowed, or full-screen modes and save them for device transfer later. DivX Player provides free playback on Windows and Mac, and we also include an MKV splitter for Microsoft Media Foundation in Windows 7. By consequence of that, you can watch DivX Plus files with hardware acceleration and already stream them to Windows Media Center Extender and UPNP devices.

So again, for so many people who own DivX devices, it's unfortunate, but there are also many other tools out there that will do the job. It's at least nice to see them supporting MKV, which will work in DivX Plus devices in future.

Without commenting on why Handbrake has dropped support for AVI (I'm sure they have their reasons), it is a simply bit of a shame for users looking to make highly portable content. DivX is one of the most widely supported formats on devices ranging from portable media players, DVD and Blu-Ray players, digital TV's, set-top boxes, and even mobile phones. It's always been a major goal to make it extremely easy for people to take content from their computer and move it into their living room or take it with them on the go, and there are now over 250 million DivX devices out there.

There is of course now also DivX Plus, which uses H.264/AAC/MKV, and Handbrake can still output that. You can actually already find a preset for Handbrake here. Devices certified for DivX Plus will be arriving this year, with announcements already covering Philips and Seagate. DivX Plus Web Player already supports these files so you can upload your DivX or DivX Plus file to any standard HTTP server and embed it directly in your web pages. It enables viewers to watch these files in embedded, windowed, or full-screen modes and save them for device transfer later. DivX Player provides free playback on Windows and Mac, and we also include an MKV splitter for Microsoft Media Foundation in Windows 7. By consequence of that, you can watch DivX Plus files with hardware acceleration and already stream them to Windows Media Center Extender and UPNP devices.

So again, for so many people who own DivX devices, it's unfortunate, but there are also many other tools out there that will do the job. It's at least nice to see them supporting MKV, which will work in DivX Plus devices in future.

First of all the original handbrake.fr article says nothing specifically about DivX. It talks about XviD and OGM. I guess OGM wasn't "controversial" enough for the editors so they ignored that and focused on DivX.

But the real issue is: Big deal, DivX themselves are moving to H.264/mkv with all deliberate speed. Even they realize there's no point in anyone holding on to codecs and containers which are inferior in every respect. So, since mkv is a legitimate container in DivX7, the writeup is in fact erroneous. Surprise.

What about the reverse effect of this? What I mean by that, are brands that went from being very poor, bottom dwelling no name brands to being something somewhat respected? Like DIVX, which went from being a much hated, big brotherish "movie rental" company, to a company that makes a widely used video player and format for internet video today. Granted, the **AA still doesn't give them much credit, but consumers seem to like it,. . .

For some links:

http://www.divx.com/en/software/mac/divx

http://www.perian.org/

googling "mac video codecs" has perian at number 2, xvid at number 3, 3vix at number 8 and WMV at number 9.

So, basically, you're mad that it won't play your pirated movies out of the box? I've got karma to burn, so time to feed the trolls.

Yeah, I'm going to assume that you really have no idea how the encoder/decoder market works or video production in general. Basically, there are companies that create codecs like DivX and then require payment to encode and distribute videos using their codec because of patents. In order for Apple to ship DivX, they would have to license DivX from DivX. Why should apple pay the licensing fee when they can direct users here: http://www.divx.com/en/mac and the user can download and install for free? I mean the last time I dealt with Windows I remember having to go and fetch the DivX Codec. And the last time I set up a new Mac, QuickTime popped up when it could find the Codec, knew what kind of file it was, and provided a link to the Divx site to go download it. All of this has to do with Licensing. It's really more of a legal issue than a technical one. So how is software licensing and patents preventing them from shipping every codec known to man Apple's fault again? Because unlike a lot of F/OSS projects, Apple can't be 100% based out of Hungry or France to circumvent these licensing restrictions. The do business in the United States and other countries that do recognize and enforce these copyright treaties. Technically, downloading and using VLC and FFMPEG in the United States constitutes infringement on various Codec patents, but that's a topic for another thread and another day. Also I would check on Windows. If it shipped with DivX, chances are that was added by the PC vender in a 3rd party deal, not by Microsoft. (Actually I don't pay attention to who is licensing what these days).

MKV isn't a format, it's a container. Just like .MOV is a container as is .AVI. The quality inside a .MKV, .AVI, or .MOV is all dependent upon the compression and codecs used not the container format. And the last time I tried playing MKV files, the program took up WAY too many system resources. The only place that I've seen MKV as a popular format is with Azurus/Vuze. In fact, I've never seen it used outside of Vuze. Occasionally you'll see it in a torrent, but they are mostly DivX/Avi.

The fact that macs can't play Blu-Ray or HD-DVD has to do with the fact that Apple doesn't ship any models with said player. MAC LACKS THE HARDWARE NEEDED IN ORDER TO READ EITHER FORMAT That has nothing to do with Quicktime and Codecs. When I worked in video production, nobody was adopting either optical format. It was clear to many of us that Optical Media was going the way of the floppy disk and this was in 2003. By the time HD-DVD or Blu-Ray won the format wars, it would be too late, we'd see everything delivered via a digital stream. The only question was, is it going to be an iTunes like store where you buy the item to a set top box/hard drive or whether it was going to be via streaming like Hulu or Netflix. So far it looks like there is a market for both. But time will tell.

And I see a lot of people electing to skip the Blu-Ray player in favor of a media PC/Mac hooked up to their TV and streaming Netflix or Hulu to their TV. I've been using a Mac MIni for this purpose since 2005. I know I have. To me, the extra quality for twice the price of a DVD plus the cost of the player isn't worth it to me. I'll put up with watching my TV shows from Hulu when I have extra time at my connivence, even if the quality isn't the same as on HD. It' good enough for me and plenty of other people too.

Now, I have to say that I'm generally happy with Quicktime X. Quicktime had been languishing for years and this was a much needed up date. It runs faster and smoother than the previous versions.

Go to this page http://www.divx.com/en/products/software/windows/divx-pro

Obviously I've been asleep a while. I wasn't aware that DivX acquired MainConcept.

Well, MainConcept isn't horrible, but it still lags behind x264. It's to x264 what DivX is to Xvid. (Let the flaming begin!)

No hand held I know is DivX certified.

Check out these phones and if you aren't lucky enough to own one download the mobile player for Windows Mobile or Symbian devices (scroll down the page a bit).

there are no DivX-HD players either

There are now :)

The DVB-T2 (HD version of DVB) will use H.264

The next beta of the DivX H.264 Decoder should have preliminary support for DVB apps.

No hand held I know is DivX certified.

Check out these phones and if you aren't lucky enough to own one download the mobile player for Windows Mobile or Symbian devices (scroll down the page a bit).

there are no DivX-HD players either

There are now :)

The DVB-T2 (HD version of DVB) will use H.264

The next beta of the DivX H.264 Decoder should have preliminary support for DVB apps.

No hand held I know is DivX certified.

Check out these phones and if you aren't lucky enough to own one download the mobile player for Windows Mobile or Symbian devices (scroll down the page a bit).

there are no DivX-HD players either

There are now :)

The DVB-T2 (HD version of DVB) will use H.264

The next beta of the DivX H.264 Decoder should have preliminary support for DVB apps.

Besides (AFAIK) SD DivX content cannot be progressive

Quite the opposite! Most of it is progressive. Both progressive and interlace (top or bottom field first) is supported. However, progressive is recommended because it requires a much lower data rate for the same quality.

interlaced is not good for desktops (and deinterlacers suck). Therefore if you want HD or desktops then H.264 can be a better choice.

Interlace indeed is not great for desktops, but the DivX Decoder for DirectShow can ask the renderer to de-interlace. On most modern graphics cards you'll get nice 50/60fps bob, which looks really fluid. H.264 is troublesome, especially for 1080HD, because decode requirements for 1080HD H.264 are much, much higher than for 1080ASP, upon which DivX is based. This is because the format itself is more complex (smaller blocks, longer references, CABAC) and due to mandatory in-loop deblock, whereas post-processing in ASP can be adapted based on real-time playback performance.

Not to mention that there is huge amount of devices capable of H.264 (iPod, etc.)

What is "etc."? ;) AFAIK there is iPod, PSP (with some quirks), and there is Blu-Ray, and that's it. Additionally, there are multiple H.264 levels and multiple H.264 profiles and you can't just move content between devices without targeting them appropriate. iPod, for example only supports Baseline profile. High profile decoders (i.e. Blu-Ray) are not required to support all of the features present in baseline profiles.

However, DivX is already working on an H.264 solution designed for interoperability. Check it out ;)

As outrageous as this sounds, it is a carbon-copy of what is being implemented at the K-12 level...right now. Stage6.DivX.com has a vid about it.

Here is a TinyURL link to same.

is this: http://stage6.divx.com/

Problem with stage6 is that their search features are horrendous. No exact string searches or the ability to "drill down" with advanced search that I can find.

is this: http://stage6.divx.com/
In a word, no.

Any website that requires the installation of yet another shitty plugin(tm) can piss off.

is this: http://stage6.divx.com/

http://stage6.divx.com/ is my personal favorite for shows that aren't currently airing or past seasons of current shows. Most major braodcast networks the current season's episodes on their websites, as well as recaps of previous seasons and a bunch of bonus stuff (NBC has been getting a bit into ARG's for Heroes if you're into that kind of stuff) and minimal commercials, and it tends to be up as promptly as any other content. I watched Firefly for the first time on tv-links but my computer died in the middle of the ninth episode (Ariel) =( , and I also used it to watch Stargate SG-1 and check out other random interesting shows. About a week ago it stopped working properly so I switched over to stage6.

Here's a one-time $100,000 speeding ticket, and one country now has a standard $10,000 ticket for anyone eager to earn it. That same hoser nation issued a $288,500 beauty for speeding in a 40kph zone. Although I am not in favor of such extreme fines (despite my father being struck in a 40kph zone in said police state, ultimately dying), they are the Big Brother future.

One consolation. By the time any of us are being asked to pay such an enormous fine we will all be implanted with an RFID chip that will automatically suck the funds from us as we earn them so we won't even have to lift a finger from our game paddle to write a check!

FDR's New Deal is a page directly from Stalin's play book.

You mean like HD Divx Players?

http://www.divx.com/products/hw/browse.php?c=7

The low quality is one of the reasons I don't use YouTube

1. Get lots of venture capital, somehow.

2. Declare the site beta.

3. Allow people to upload videos as high as 18 megabits per second.

4. Wonder where all the venture capital went.

I have problems with DivX management. Yes those suits.

Pasting from DivX for Mac (note,even Mac) EULA.

"NO TRANSCODING: You are prohibited from using the Software with software or hardware products whose purpose is to "transcode" or convert DivX video or DivX Media Format content into an alternate format." --> You know what it means

"PRIVACY POLICY: During the installation process and through use of the software covered hereunder, we may collect non-personally identifiable information, as well as personally-identifiable information, all as set forth in our Privacy Policy, available at http://www.divx.com/legal/privacy.php; please read it. " --> Actually does, sends data to some .cc domain via pingie.exe executable OS X app.

Here is the high quality video:

http://stage6.divx.com/

Well, apart from the good video quality, it is another Youtube ^^

I have since abandoned Youtube when I found this:

http://stage6.divx.com/

The image quality is amazingly good, totally opposite to Youtube and flash video in general.

Also, and very important to me (because I multitask), it consumes about the same CPU in both cases. Probably flash video consumes a little more.

• m4p format (all distros)
• Evolution/Thunderbird sucks, Sylpheed/claws is close to anything that I would use. (all distros)
• Codecs not verified to run on Linux listed here (http://soggie.soti.org/linux/linux-codecs/), here (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_video_ codecs#Operating_system_support) and here (http://labs.divx.com/DivXLinuxCodec) are illegal to use without owning Windows. (all distros)
• Flash properly displayed in web browser so it doesn't cover up page content. (all distros)
• The UI in Ubuntu still has more bugs than Red Hat and SuSE.
• Red Hat uses anaconda for the OS install which complicates the partitioning process.
• YUM and Yast suck compared to Synaptic. Thankfully there is a RPM based version of Synaptic Package manager for Red Hat. I believe SuSE has it as well.
• Updates for SuSE suck because of how long it takes and some hurdles you have to go through just to get the update started.
• The most stable version out there, even with unstable packages, is Red Hat but Ubuntu fixes unstable packages faster than other distributions.
• Updates for RPM based systems take longer than DEB based systems especially if you don't configure SELinux the right way.
• MPlayer feels incomplete but does some neat things. Totem is fine but needs to have more options.

Now that I gone over some of my pet-peeves I want to cover some of my opinion of what makes Linux great.

• Beryl (Love it, makes the desktop easier to use)
  
• OpenOffice (There are some things that can be improved but overall it works great)
  
• Synaptic Package Manager / APT / APTitude (Great way for people to find out more of what Linux can offer to them depending on how their repos are configured)
  
• Amarok (Best audio player out there for Linux. Has the ability to minimize to task bar, Options to turn on or off the OCD, works great for organizing online radio streams, plays Linux restricted formats fine and last but not least, it's pretty light weight.)
  
• Firefox and it's extensibility (Most of the extensions are shared between OSs)
  
• su (Once you got what you want set, you'll never have to use this again except for maybe updates depending on how you configured you package manager)
  
• Complete control to customize the GDM, KDM or XDM
  
• Gconf-editor saves time on configuring for people that don't want to know how to program to get something simple done
  
• Sylpheed/Claws provides the most realistic extensions for an email client available on Linux (especially in terms of spam filters and how the mail is viewed / organized)

For hardware support, this area has improved over the past several years. In Ubuntu it takes a couple of clicks to have 3D hardware support whereas it took a long process before. Used to be that I would have to live without a certain piece of hardware because of incompatibility but most of those concerns have been taken care of for the majority of the distributions. I could go over some of the terminal apps but I am talking about a desktop environment so apples and oranges.

It saddens me that you got modded +4 for your disinformation trying to debunk lumpy.

The Linktheater PC-3LWG is Buffalo's new high definition wireless media player. This DivX Certified HD media player with progressive scan lets users add HD and networking capabilities to their home entertainment centers.

In fact just go to http://www.divx.com/products/hw/browse.php?c=1 and browse the selection of Divx ultra certified players many of them are HD capable unlike your disinformation post implies.

I got my Buffalo Linktheater for $109.00 each 4 months ago. I bought 4 of them so I could give some to family and they can watch HD content of the kids. I guess the devices I have simply dont exist then eh?

nor do the tons of people on the doom9 forums that have them as well. (region free hacks are already being released for it.)

• It would be my expectation (based on a lot of experience!) that Xvid and DivX should always be grouped tightly together. If this is not the case it suggests some degree of error in the testing. Certainly at medium bitrate DivX should be side by side with Xvid - both codecs are based around similar technologies.
  
• DivX and Xvid ought to be much more competitive with H.264 at higher bitrates and higher resolutions, but it looks like these results show the inverse
  
• I recommend taking a look at the swatches on page 4 of TFA to check some of the results yourself
  

The windows version is free too
http://www.divx.com/dff/index.php?version=win

and everyone gets sent the same serial number:

Windows

SMYCU67X83BBA68TIT48

Mac OS X

358DSZ7D96C5X66BI48E

So? Do the manufacturers of the 70 million consumer devices that support DivX somehow know something MS doesn't?

Licensing costs aren't all that much in the long run. What if it would help them sell half a million more 360 units? And even two or three games were sold for each of those? Costs would be recouped in a hurry. If I could connect to a simple Windows/Samba share and play DivX/XviD content, I'd buy one today. As it is, I'm not compelled by it over other options, so I'll wait for the best system to emerge. I just can't see the "it would cost too much" argument; they obviously want to leverage other products at the same time, so they have intentionally ignored certain possibilities.

I find hard to believe they are adding Xvid, since Xvid is GPLed.

It is more likely they are adding DivX which, although generally serves the same purpose, is another different best.

19.6 GB ÷ 119 min = 23.5 Mb/s.

That's serious overkill for MPEG-4. OTA HD is MPEG-2 and limited to 19.2 Mb/s.

If some kind soul would re-encode the movie to something more appropriate...say DiVX at 4 Mb/s, it'd only be 3.5 GB.

That's more reasonable to download, and will fit on a single-layer DVD.

Xesdeeni

I'll throw in a shameless plug for DivX Stage6. It's in alpha, but you can publish DivX and XVID video files in their original quality all the way up to 1080p with 5.1 MP3 Surround. Stage6 also allows you to easily download the videos directly with no DRM (so long as the publisher permits it), and it's focused around building high-quality content communities.

A couple of example channels launched recently:
http://stage6.divx.com/BT
http://stage6.divx.com/Witness

DivX Web Player is required for in-browser playback on Windows and Mac (supporting all common browsers on each), and Linux users should be able to play most files in VLC or the like pending direct support for the platform.

I'll throw in a shameless plug for DivX Stage6. It's in alpha, but you can publish DivX and XVID video files in their original quality all the way up to 1080p with 5.1 MP3 Surround. Stage6 also allows you to easily download the videos directly with no DRM (so long as the publisher permits it), and it's focused around building high-quality content communities.

A couple of example channels launched recently:
http://stage6.divx.com/BT
http://stage6.divx.com/Witness

DivX Web Player is required for in-browser playback on Windows and Mac (supporting all common browsers on each), and Linux users should be able to play most files in VLC or the like pending direct support for the platform.

I'll throw in a shameless plug for DivX Stage6. It's in alpha, but you can publish DivX and XVID video files in their original quality all the way up to 1080p with 5.1 MP3 Surround. Stage6 also allows you to easily download the videos directly with no DRM (so long as the publisher permits it), and it's focused around building high-quality content communities.

A couple of example channels launched recently:
http://stage6.divx.com/BT
http://stage6.divx.com/Witness

DivX Web Player is required for in-browser playback on Windows and Mac (supporting all common browsers on each), and Linux users should be able to play most files in VLC or the like pending direct support for the platform.