Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

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."

6 of 150 comments (clear)

  1. Or.... by GeorgeH · · Score: 5, Informative

    If you don't want to deal with modchips and swapping you can get a Qcast for $50 (thinkgeek sells 'em too) and play MP3, OGG, MPEG and DivX files streamed from a Windows, Mac OS X or Linux system over the network.

    --
    Why can't I moderate something "Wrong" or at least "Grossly Misinformed"?
    1. Re:Or.... by Mysticalfruit · · Score: 3, Informative

      I went out and bought a copy of Qcast a couple of months ago and I like it. It works as adverstised. The only issue I've had is that you have to be very particular in how you encode the divx stuff, otherwise it scarf at the files.

      --
      Yes Francis, the world has gone crazy.
  2. XBox by NetJunkie · · Score: 5, Informative

    The XBox media player does most media including DIVX, SVCD, VCD, mp3, etc. The next version due any time has a great interface and even better media support. It would be a great system to make an XBox a good media server.

  3. Re:Where have I seen this before? by Svenne · · Score: 2, Informative

    I don't understand spanish, so I haven't read the article, but the DivX player for Dreamcast is extremely anal about bitrates. I have yet to play a DivX on my Dreamcast with acceptable quality.

    --

    Slagborr
  4. Re:Not the intended use... by Solosoft · · Score: 2, Informative

    Not all DIVX is illegal, I could take a family video and divx it and plop it on a CD, Send it to my uncle in toronto or somthin and he could watch it on his PS2. Plus, who fucking cares if the software developers don't make it ... I don't, I found a nice home in linux. So if windows and those shitty game companys die ... fuck them

    --
    Solosoft.org - Your Online Resource to Nothing
  5. Mirrors for downloading the player by Tensor · · Score: 4, Informative

    These are the places to download the player:

    PS2Newz.net
    PS2Ownz.com
    elotrolado.net
    crackmanworld.com
    indicedivx.com
    bandaancha.st