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A zip file of the first episode in DivX! Thanks MirrorDot.

From Divx.com, "official" players.

DVD Player Compatibility List at VideoHelp.com

You can rent movies with DivX technology here: http://www.divx.com/movies. I found because of the Battle of the Planets. Anyway, that page links to other sites, and I think all the video is in DivX.

Rentals seem to be several days, and work with the on the PC with the DivX Player, not WMP. From what I understand you will actually be able to play your downloaded files in DivX DVD players (http://www.divx.com/hardware) to your TV. I am not quite sure how rentals work in those players, probably some kind of view limit or something. I doubt they have clock. The Philips player I am getting (Philips DVP-642) does not have any phone, net connection, or clock I can see. Kinda wondering how it will work. I suppose as long as the view limits are not too restrictive and allow you to pause, rewind, fast forward without using a view it would be ok.

Hoping I can rent regular movies, and buy kids movies over the net. Kids watch the same thing over and over and over. Some of those Disney songs are burned into my head! Get them out! I do know you can fit a whole DivX movie on a CD and it looks really good. It will be interesting to test on the big screen TV. I abandoned Blockbuster quite a while ago, and love Netflix. It would be cool to get even more instant gratification, because sometimes wife and I are not in the mood for the current Netflix queue.

I still buy kids DVDs. It would be nice to have master copy of the file on the PC and burn new CDs when the kids scratch up the CD copy. Kids actually made a Lego DVD player and "played" some discs to their death. They now know the discs are fragile, but I was actually kinda proud of them to try. Does Lego make lasers?

You can rent movies with DivX technology here: http://www.divx.com/movies. I found because of the Battle of the Planets. Anyway, that page links to other sites, and I think all the video is in DivX.

Rentals seem to be several days, and work with the on the PC with the DivX Player, not WMP. From what I understand you will actually be able to play your downloaded files in DivX DVD players (http://www.divx.com/hardware) to your TV. I am not quite sure how rentals work in those players, probably some kind of view limit or something. I doubt they have clock. The Philips player I am getting (Philips DVP-642) does not have any phone, net connection, or clock I can see. Kinda wondering how it will work. I suppose as long as the view limits are not too restrictive and allow you to pause, rewind, fast forward without using a view it would be ok.

Hoping I can rent regular movies, and buy kids movies over the net. Kids watch the same thing over and over and over. Some of those Disney songs are burned into my head! Get them out! I do know you can fit a whole DivX movie on a CD and it looks really good. It will be interesting to test on the big screen TV. I abandoned Blockbuster quite a while ago, and love Netflix. It would be cool to get even more instant gratification, because sometimes wife and I are not in the mood for the current Netflix queue.

I still buy kids DVDs. It would be nice to have master copy of the file on the PC and burn new CDs when the kids scratch up the CD copy. Kids actually made a Lego DVD player and "played" some discs to their death. They now know the discs are fragile, but I was actually kinda proud of them to try. Does Lego make lasers?

It is definitely a Gecko bug (the rendering component of Mozilla and Firefox) relating to incremental reflow, not a problem with Slashcode. It's not something to be glossed over. On the other hand, as others have pointed out, it's fixed in Gecko -- just the fix hasn't been rolled into Firefox.

In the meantime, you could try disabling incremental rendering (at the cost of potentially greater delay until a web page is in a readable state) and see if that works around the problem: go to about:config and add a boolean value for content.notify.ontimer and set it to false.

There's some random Firefox-related discussion on a forum here. While these people don't really know what they're talking about, they do nicely list the incremental reflow prefs that you can play with. You might be able to come up with a reasonable workaround until the fix gets rolled in.

Remember to set the prefs back when you update Firefox to a fixed version -- you don't want to be either burning CPU time like mad or waiting longer than you need to to be reading pages.

Which already is used to some extent. For some pirates, it's good enough. And given some of the theatre sizes and soundsystems in my town at least, it's comparable to the local movieplex. Since not everyone is going to blow 50 k$ on a home theatre, especially in the current economy, this bodes ill.

It's divx, get the codec here (windows/mac).

I first tried the avi with Windows Media Player; it went off looking for a codec and finally decided it couldn't download one, which sounds like what's happened to you. I found it worked fine with the free divx player, so maybe this will help you, too?

if you install divx codecs from within a codec pack it will not install the spyware

Also, a lot of those codec packs are trouble themselves in other ways. Avoid them if you can.

Wow, leave it to the media moguls to take a great idea and just run with it! We all remember how popular Divx players ( this kind, not this kind) were, and those let you watch the movie a whole three times before it wasn't yours any more! These guys know good products when they see them. I imagine a future where the lifespan of the degrading DVD is less than the viewing time of the movie itself, forcing the consumer to buy it twice so they can watch the whole thing! And it won't end with DVDs, no sir! Disposable durable goods are the way of the future. I envision cellular phones that melt in your hand in mid-call, cars that self-destruct after 3000 miles, computers that dissolve into their component atoms when they become obsolete... And then, we will build entire cities from the trash this creates! Our grandchildren won't have to go house-hunting, they'll just mine themselves a 1400 square foot condo near good schools and shopping. What times we're in for!

The video is encoded in DivX format. I am not a MacOS user myself, but a quick Google search turns up this. Perhaps could be something?

DiVX ;-) was first "project mayo" (codename) - mayo because its difficult to make, and pretty much hit or miss - divx was first a hacked mpeg-4 codec (m$ .asp actually - really ment for streaming high quality video over broadband, hacked to work offline and "standalone"), and contained "hot" code. so divx 3.11, the version that really first took off, was illegal. the codec really exploded with the file sharing boom namely morpheus and kazaa. next release , they got rid of the stolen code, and all was good, the codec had even better quality and many of the audio syncing problems had been taken care of. by this point i had ~150 gb of video at ~300 hrs.

then, with the next release (5.x), and even more popularity, divx went commercial, and at first, i was upset, but they were pretty good about it, they had 3 versions, the one with no ads, but "play only", one with adware + encoding, and then the full $30USD one that let you do everything without ads. i thought, well these guys deserve some money for all the work that went into this great codec.

xvid was one of the spinoffs from projectmayo, and has become my favorite codec since i started using it. it seems to have the best "feel" to it, and is really really really good for animated films (to be fair, divx and the rest are really really good at animated films too, most codecs do, easy lines for the encoder to pick up and even out between frames). there are two main developers for xvid (its open so there are different builds) kopei, and nic. they both have their pros and cons, but you would be hard pressed to find them "in real life."

most of this info can be gathered from the mentioned sites, with a little digging. if im wrong about any of this, meh. its pretty right on, though. some great resources for these codecs are the forementioned www.doom9.org is really one of the best collections of encoding how-tos and other doodads. should be required reading for any video DIY noobs. another great resource is www.divx-digest.com you can get all kinds of codecs and players there, try em all, its the best way to learn (divx-digest is a sister site to www.digital-digest.com) like i said, i really dig xvid, and divx's commercial ventures are really starting to pan out (featured in a couple of computer games/video games (lord of the rings pc maybe?), hopefully soon will be built in to dvd players- think 2+ movies in hi-res on one dvd!). please please please dont use wmv. i cant play wmv, as many non M$ people cant, and they take more cpu to decode (looks pretty and is easy though).

before divx was known as divx, there was another company that released a project by the same name, where you would rent this cd/dvd disc thing and buy it to unlock it and watch it whenever you wanted, neat idea, poor execution, i only knew one persone that used it. they came in these little cardboard jewel cases. (before dvd players were all over, you had to get one that could play this divx )

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Divx and Xvid are two different implementations of the same standard. They are cross-compatibile.

You do realize that you can get just the DivX codec, without any of the assocoated crappy spyware and media player, right?

Click here and there is a link that says Standard DivX Codec(FREE). Nice, huh?

You do realize that you can get just the DivX codec, without any of the assocoated crappy spyware and media player, right?

Click here and there is a link that says Standard DivX Codec(FREE). Nice, huh?

This is pretty simple to sum up in my mind. Although my desktop is still running windows at work, at home I rarely see it.

But when asked the question why I have moved to Open Office from Microsoft Office, and why I have moved to Linux from Windows, what is the answer?
It's mostly about rights and freedom. I'm not yet willing to admit that I am a full out FSF supporter, though I have been a supporter of the Open Source movement. Microsoft's licensing tactics (and not just theirs but the general tactics of many other folks have led me as far away from proprietary "treat-the-custer-as-a-theif" software as I can possibly get.
Linux is great, and it has been an incredible learning experience (I've honestly never felt so dumb sitting in front of a command prompt as I did during my first Gentoo installation).

I was never a *NIX user. I never had any desire to run anything other than Windows because I was happy with the product.

But they forced me to look elsewhere, and when I did I learned what I was missing.
So IMO, what lies ahead for linux is more users...and I don't believe that is limited to the server. From the desktop side, the strides that have been made in KDE and GNOME in the last couple of revisions have made them dramatically nicer to work with. From the server side...not having to have a GUI running on a server is quite a bit more efficient.

Back in the day I remeber Microsoft recommending you change the screen saver to the black screen instead of one of those OpenGL screen savers on your Windows NT SQL server because the screen saver would bury your processor. I couldn't help but think why do I have this huge GUI running on what is supposed to resemble a somewhat powerful database server?!!

APserver
Winamp
Mirc
FlashFXP
Powertoys
DivX
Ethereal
Photoshop
Nero
ATI MMC

And I really want to get access to the compression software that puts 100 movies into 60GB.

...since it contains cracked copies of paid for software...thanks, but no thanks. The free version of divx (read the basic version, not the free adware supported pro version) is fine for anyone who just wants to view videos, its only when it comes to actually encoding them that the paid for codec comes into its own (being faster).

Link to FREE basic codec, no spyware in this one.

So download the bare codec for Windows, for example.

Yeah, but then DivX threw spyware into their program at the last second. Take a look for yourself.

Of course, there's always 3ivx, etc.

the DivX codec is available for Linux. Look here.

wanna download stuff? get mldonkey.

now, there's no excuse for a linux user to not have illegal music, movies, etc. ;-)

...is the even cooler trailer from FFX-2 International + Last Mission. Just to warn you now: you're going to need an up-to-date DivX codec to be able to play it.

You're smoking crack.

Ogg won't be popular until the developers get off their asses and put a big link on their front page that says "Install Ogg for Windows!".

At the moment they just give out the codec and say "you do what you want with it". Doing something useful with it? Well... ummmm... here's a bunch of third parties that can maybe do something useful with it.

If Xiph want Ogg to be popular they're going to have to break down and make actual usable technology with instant gratification for Win32 users. They don't want to have to know that a DirectShow fiter is what lets you play Oggs in Windows Media Player. They want to double click an installer and have their OS Ogg enabled.

I'll even point this out to you using references avaialable on the plain old intarweb. See Divx. Theres a "New To Divx" section! Fancy that! There used to be a direct "download Divx whatever version" link but it seems the webmaster woke up stupid this month. Then you download a file and you double click on it once it's finished and it gives you Divx! You can double click on a Divx AVI file and it opens in WMP and plays with all the Divxy goodness.

Xiph needs that for Ogg. They don't need a third party to fill the gaps. They don't need a billion programs nobody cares about with Ogg support. They need a standard installer package with instant fucking gratification and until Xiph get that through their heads people will either switch to WMA or download iTunes and switch to AAC.

To play the DivX verisons you will need the latest Divx 5.1 bundle and at least an 800Mhz processor. Any earlier versions of divx might cause the player to lock up.

We reccomend the Normal Quality version for people on slow links or who want to see the movie quickly. To save it to your Hard drive right click on the file and select "save as" or "save link target as" and select a place to save the file.

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[Kong Full Movie] High Quality DivX 5.1 : 13 meg

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[Kong Full Movie] Normal Quality DivX 5.1 : 85 meg
[Kong Full Movie] High Quality DivX 5.1 : 137 meg

You can grab the movie via various filesharing networks. We recomend Bittorrent as it is fast, easy to use and saves a lot of load on our servers. You need to install the windows client from here. It intergrates into your browser so you can click the bittorrent link below.

[Kong Full Movie] BITTORRENT : Normal Quality DivX 5.1 : 85 meg
[Kong Full Movie] BITTORRENT : High Quality DivX 5.1 : 137 meg

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[Kong Trailer] High Quality DivX 5.1 : 13 meg

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[Kong Trailer] High Quality DivX 5.1 : 13 meg
[Kong Trailer] Half Size DivX 5.1 : 5.2 meg
[Kong Trailer] Low Quality MPEG : 12 meg

You can grab the movie via various filesharing networks. We recomend Bittorrent as it is fast, easy to use and saves a lot of load on our servers. You need to install the windows client from here. It intergrates into your browser so you can click the bittorrent link below.

[Kong Trailer] BITTORRENT : High Quality DivX 5.1 : 12 meg
[Kong Trailer] BITTORRENT : Half Size DivX 5.1 : 5.2 meg
[Kong Trailer] BITTORRENT : Low Quality MPEG : 12 meg

The DP500 is open source based (uCLinux) and works well with Linux hosts (there are several projects supporting it on SourceForge).

...just a satisfied customer.

There are good media players out there, you just need to know what to look for and where.

Media Player Classic (MPC) is a shining example of a solid, simple player with a good feature set.

Since you're probably interested in being able to play most video formats, you'll want to download Real Alternative and Quicktime Alternative to save you the hassle of installing the invasive Quicktime and Real players. Both QT and Real alternative are codecs rather than full blown players, and allow you to view their respective video formats in MPC.

Top it off with the DivX and XviD codecs, and you should be able to play pretty much anything under the sun with the exception of DVDs.

Unfortunatly I don't know of a free codec that can play DVDs, thanks to the RIAA's work on DeCSS. If you have a registered DVD decoder package, you'll probably be able to use MPC with it's supplied codec.

You can now play all your videos in a single place without sacraficing your privacy.

I hope that helps.

Uhm, what? DivX is a derivative of MPEG4, not just a tool for producing open standard-compliant files - as a text editor would be in your case - as you can see on DivX networks' page.

1) Download the decoder at divx.com (here) It's there--Right in the link that says "Standard DivX Codec(FREE)"

2) Download Media Player Classic (it's official home is at sourceforge) Google for it. Unbloated, feature filled, Open Source.

3) Watch.

Now, let me step up and argue the other side of this one for a moment. Sure, gator sucks if it shows up when you don't expect it to, like if some shareware program you download installs it without telling you. However, I recently wanted to encode a DIVX movie. Just one or two, mind you, not a ton of them. So, I went to the DIVX website and downloaded their encoder. They will let you use the decoder for free (or they used to...) but the encoder part costs money. Alternately you can install and use the encoder for free if you agree to let gator on your system.

They're very up front and honest about it: they want money for their software, so either you fork it over or donate your eyeballs. Sounded fair, I didn't intend to have it on there for more than a month or so.

The installer was also very open about the fact that it was installing Gator, and the fact that I'd be seeing ads occasionally. After I installed it, gator came up, and I found a nice little preferences pane. After some digging through "advanced settings" I found out I could make it display ads approximately 1-3 times a week at minimum. I did that, and it never bothered me again. I think I've seen it pop up maybe a few times. I can deinstall it any time.

So what's the big deal?

we're getting pretty far off target from a family home computer here but, here are some of my favorite alternatives to the above list;

mozilla - if prefer MyIE2
ws ftp - i much prefer filezilla
PuTTY - try transparent putty
vnc - if you're running xp or 2k you should go with ultravnc
gnu-emacs - yikes!if you must have a unix style text editor under windows, may i recommend cream for vim
free-av - i'd probably go with AVG anti virus
boingo - don't forget netstumbler

here are a few more i install before i ever run a new system;

foobar2000 console2
divx player
stuffit expander
trillian
and if you need an email client try popcorn

i've got links to lots more free windows software at my links page

Are you absolutely positively sure you want to use Windows XP Home instead of the much better XP Professional or even better 2000 Professional? I've had nothing but heartache with the PCs that my family members have bought that have XP Home on them...

Otherwise, people have already suggested Mozilla and a few have suggested Mozilla Firebird, which I myself think is a far superior mail product. Mozilla Thunderbird is what I use for mail at home right now, but it's an acquired taste.

Ad-Aware is indispensable. Every PC should have a copy of it.

For image viewing Irfan View is probably the greatest thing in the world.

You'll of course need WinZip and you'll need the DiVX codec and unfortunately you'll also need Quicktime and Shockwave for numerous braindead (and not so braindead) websites along with the latest Java VM. Besides that, the rest is left up to personal taste. I'd suggest a copy of MS Office because OpenOffice makes me want to gnaw my arm off but then again that's also partially because I can buy Office on student discount at the University Bookstore.
Oh, and get a BitTorrent client from somewhere.

It faces tough competition, such as MPEG-4, RealVideo and Windows Media

DivX is MPEG-4, you kook! Try learning a bit about a topic before spouting nonsense over it.

As for RealVideo, they are aiming for streaming, which means low bandwidth consumption, which means a trade-off of quality in favor of small size. They are not interested in displacing MPEG-2.

Who finds people like you to write for Slashdot!?

So you want to know a little bit about DivX(R), huh? DivX(R) is a lot of things. First and foremost, DivX(R) is a patent-pending MPEG-4 digital video technology created by DivXNetworks, Inc. Videos encoded with DivX technology are among the highest quality digital videos available anywhere (and with a relatively small file size to boot).

...

In addition, DivX is the most widely distributed MPEG-4 compatible technology available today. DivX technology is compatible with the MPEG-4 video compression standard, allowing it to compress MPEG-2 video down to about one eighth of its original size. DivX is able to create fully compliant MPEG-4 bitstreams, so if you're looking for an MPEG-4 compatible video technology, we can help. Read the DivX Licensing Overview for more information.

In the meantime I've set up a (temporary!) bittorrent for the duality divx video.. Get it while it's up.

People who already have the divx copy can (please) use it to seed the bittorrent feed (and keep my ISP from toasting me alive).

http://download.divx.com/showcase/duality.divx

FYI, the version of DivX linked to by the article on Tom's is the Ad Supported one. Here's the link to the free DivX 5.1 Codec.

~Berj

divx.com sells the Kiss DP-500 progressive DVD-player for $299.99. I just ordered one so no first hand experience yet. It looks like it generally does what this device does, plus is a DVD player, can play MP3 CDs (and much more), has a strong list of outputs, and now has a Linux driver. The manufacturer has more details.

Its still completely free using a link below the rest. here.

I beg to differ. There is a free, non-adware DivX encoder, however it does not have all the same features as the Pro version. Specifically (and most importantly, imo) it doesn't include support for encoding B-Frames.

You can see from DivX.com that the free, non-ad supported codec is:
"all the playback and encoding functionality necessary to watch and create DivX videos."

And having used it to create DivX 5 AVI files (albeit without B-Frames) and being an avid user of ad-aware, I can verify that it does work and it does not contain adware.

Well so what if I have two Athlon 2500 systems @ 2312mhz, one of which is soon to be replaced by a P4 2.6ghz @ 3.25ghz?

That irrelevant.

My family used to play 3.11 DivX movies just fine on their K6-2 450mhz with an ATI rage pro, 32mb. Sure, by now I've upgraded them to an Athlon 2100 with an integrated Geforce 4 MX, but the point is old hardware plays DivX movies just fine near as I can tell.

Just look at the DivX System Requirements

Now if you have a processor thats 450 mhz I suppose you are out of luck, but those things are almost 10 years old.

Who actually cares shit about DivX? We've had ffmpeg for some time! If you are honestly watching videos using windows system.. You need ffdshow directshow filter (yes, it's based on ffmpeg).

WHY are there headlines like this on the front page? For those who are looking for encoder, mplayer comes with the famous mencoder. If my memory serves me right, latest stable (pre-)release supports latest xvid and DivX encoding options.

-rzei

It looks a lot like this: Download the DivX codec (no cost)

Whoever submitted this story should be shot, along with the Slashbots, who are obviously not doing their jobs.

ELiTeUI

its there on the page u fools

Download the DivX codec (no cost)
links to

http://download.divx.com/divx/DivX505Bundle.exe


what kinda moron submitted AND accepted this story into slashdot

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slashdot gettin worse by every story

Right.

DivX 5.0.5 is still available for Linux here, no adware attached. Actually, it would be quite funny if adware was included as that would be the first case of linux adware afaik.

http://download.divx.com/divx/DivX505Bundle.exe

Its on the page linked a bit down, in big bold letters and its not even mentioned in the slashdot article. Way to go slashdot editors.

I think you might be missing something: Check here.

The codec itself is not adware supported. It appears the only thing they've changed is the layout of their downloads page - they've de-emphasized the free codec download, but it's still there.

Well, not exactly ;) But the point is it's only the Win32 version that follows this 'pricing' format. Freed download of the 5.0.5 codec for Mac and Linux are still available.

Well, not exactly ;) But the point is it's only the Win32 version that follows this 'pricing' format. Freed download of the 5.0.5 codec for Mac and Linux are still available.

Having to scroll down a bit and click a text link is such a PitA...