TheKompany Releases DivX Software For Zaurus

An anonymous reader writes: "InfoSync has an article on DivX for the Zaurus. Finally, you can watch movies on the go!" Between this and theKompany's ogg player, the Zaurus looks cool. It's a little chunkier perhaps, but another reader points out that Archos is now taking pre-orders for its do-everything Jukebox Multimedia device, which might be another option for those seeking a portable anything box.

Comments

Storage ?

[Anonymous Coward]

Let's see - the Zaurus offers 32megs of storage. Extend that to 256 if you buy an expensive CF card. That's nothing compared to the 700 megs of a typical DivX movie.

Now, if you really want to watch movies on your Zaurus during a flight, you'll have to export nfs shares from your laptop, and have the zaurus connect to it (everything on top of 802.11b, that's cooler that way).

Apart from watching pr0n during a meeting/flight, what is the point ?

Re:OpenDivX for Zaurus

[Anonymous Coward]

Quit modding this up...it's just a link to a board that talks about getting together to start programming a player. Nobody is interested in it and then they post to the link that's mentioned in the Slashdot story...dumb moderators...

Re:Why no demos from these people?

[Dead Chicken]

It's like $10 - $20 for one thing. You shelled out $400 ish for the device what is $10 or $20 on a piece of bad software?

Ah just my $.02

Now, if only I could use it as a PDA . . .

[myawn]

Stuff like this for the Zaurus is neat (I have one), but if the Zaurus is going to be successful there are more important things that have to happen:

Battery life has to improve drastically (currently about 2 hours in developer's model)

Standard apps (calendar/address book) need to be as good as the standard ones available on Palm

Without those basics, the 'Wow' applications make neat demos, but won't win market share.