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MPEG-4 Hardware Decoder For $99

Posted by timothy on from the remote-control-included dept.

secondsun writes: "Tom's Hardware has the story. Apparently sigma designs has made a PCI card that decodes DiVX movies in reltime with little processor overhead." Under a hundred bucks, too.

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  1. Not DivX as we know it by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    This decodes DVD and Circuit city DivX not the DivX that you movie ppl download from p2p networks :) Okay. Just to let you folks who didnt read the article know.

  2. Re:Um by NoMoreNicksLeft · · Score: 1, Troll

    A clever troll, I'll admit. So good, that more than a few of the less knowledgable slashdotters might fall for it.

    But to me, your post was the height of retarded trolling inanities. It decodes mpeg1,2 and 4, the latter of which happens to be known as divx in some circles.

    Circuit City Divx discs are encrypted, and no one has ever bothered breaking it as far as I know. Then, and only then could you hope to decode it... and I'm not so sure that it is a mpeg derivative.

    Now go crawl back under that rock you live beneath.

  3. Re:DivX != MPEG4 by Alan+Partridge · · Score: 0, Troll

    wrong. MSFT's "pre-standardised MPEG-4" implementation was nothing of the sort. It was MSFT's PITCH for the simple profile video codec. It was rejected (despite being ather good), so MSFT started touting it around as MPEG-4 with the specific intention of confusing the market before MPEG-4 had been standardised. MPEG LA eventually took steps to end their shenanigans, but damage was done. DivX - right now- are doing the same shit with their awful version 5. if you're going to use a proprietry codec like DivX, why not use a good one like WinMedia 8, Real 9 or Sorenson Video 3.1?

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    That was classic intercourse!