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DivX DVD Players Arrive

Posted by timothy on from the what-no-ogg dept.

division21 writes "Geeks rejoice -- DivX Enabled DVD Players finally surface! (With all the goodies: MP3, SVCD, etc.) I remember when MP3 compatability appeared back in the day -- And it looks as though DivX Compatibility could be a real possibility for the mainstream ..." And if you can live without the compression, cherrypi points out this surprisingly favorable review of perhaps the cheapest (under $200) portable DVD player with a built-in screen.

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  1. Firmware? by Hydro-X · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Will the firmware be flashable to update to the latest codecs? I'm sure many have spent time wondering why their movies didn't work before learning that a new DivX codec was released and the newer videos are being encoded with it.

  2. Disc layout? by mobius_stripper · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Does anyone know what the expected disc layout is?
    Does it pick up any AVI files in the root directory and play them or is there a well defined structure/index file? How are multiple languages, subtitles and menus handled? This info is necessary for standardisation on a uniform DiVX disc format.

    Krishna

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    --- I'd love to go out with you, but I have to study for a Turing test.
  3. Re:proof by Sycraft-fu · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Go to www.doom9.org and have a look. You need the Ogg Vorbis DirectShow filters to play them and OggMUX to make them. Take DivX video in an AVI files, Vorbis audio in an OGG file and mux them together to produce an OGM container with both. You can even put subtitles in it if you want. Plays great on any Windows system with the OggDS
    filters installed.

    Oh, and VBR audio work just fine in it. The video is VBR, why not the audio?