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PS2 Gets A Working Divx Player

Posted by Hemos on from the no-sorenson-yet dept.

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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  1. Steps to Success by ekrout · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.

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  2. Not the intended use... by PjotrP · · Score: 5, Funny

    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!

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  3. Some English by ReadParse · · Score: 5, Funny

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