PS2 Gets A Working Divx Player

An anonymous reader writes "Over the weekend, the PS2reality team released the first working Divx player for the Playstation 2. Site is in spanish, so try using babel for translation. Works with Divx 3 and up. You can also swap your avi cd-roms if you have a modchip or you can use the other various swap techniques out there for the PS2. Divx player does require some way of booting the homebrew program, either no-swap modchip or modchip+bootdisc( e.g swap magic, gameshark, etc.) would work."

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Steps to Success

[ekrout]

1) Spend several years researching Sony's Playstation 2 entertainment console
2) Enlist a few smart friends to help you build a mod chip that allows Divx movies to be decoded
3) Get some recognition for your hack by posting a story to the most popular geek news site in the world
4) Get phone call from Sony's lawyers
5) Get phone call from Web host's sysadmin
6) Learn that you're the defendant in a billion dollar lawsuit
7) Learn that your Web server's disk died, bringing all of your research from the past couple of years down with it
8) Shoot self.

Not the intended use...

[PjotrP]

So clearly this should not even be on slashdot. Surely this way of using something that is designed to play ps2 games and dvd's to do something else is illegal! Sony might wanna bring a hardware divx player on the market in a later stage. By violating the PS2 in such a way you are effectively stealing money from them which you might have paid for their divx player when it will be released. I hope slashdot will quickly remove this newsitem and stops supporting theft!

Some English

[ReadParse]

Funny that it's all in spanish except "Make a Donation" :)

Re:Get this

[SmallFurryCreature]

mmm, ain't these things called laptops? Seriously I had a dell something or other for sometime and a long commute time. So I watched anime fansubs in the train. Worked perfectly except I kept burning my penis :p

Oh and for those posters who want to watch in their living room and ain't allowed to put their computer there, laptops come with tv-outs nowadays. Granted picture quality may suck.

Isn't including DivX support in hardware a bit tricky? Not only do they keep changing but isn't the legal state a bit to unclear for a hardware company to mess around with? Sure they have to pay a royalty for DVD but that is simple. Sign the check and you are in the clear.

Come on...

[pctainto]

I mean, PS2 has all the hardware to be able to play divx files, so, it seems that making the mod chip would be hard, but not exceptionally hard. People should instead focus on getting divx players to run on PSX or Nintendo 64 (buy cartridge divxs, heh). Come on, make it harder and less usable, like the people that modify C64s...

From the webpage

[Espectr0]

Debido a la gran cantidad de visitantes que ha recibido la web sobre las 18:00 horas, el servidor se ha venido abajo sin permitirnos tan siquiera, dar un enlace de descarga del reproductor. Hasta hace escasos minutos no hemos podido volver a acceder a la web, lo que nos ha obligado a empezar a distribuir el reproductor por otros canales.

Translation: thanks to those sob's from slashdot, now we cannot release our player due to severe slashdotting. Those goats! ;)

Bridging Cultures...

[Slackrat]

Debido a la gran cantidad de visitantes que ha recibido la web sobre las 18:00 horas, el servidor se ha venido abajo sin permitirnos tan siquiera, dar un enlace de descarga del reproductor.

Universal in any language: we've been Slashdotted.