DivX Making Hollywood Inroads

worm eater writes "CNet news reports that DivX is doing its best to become a digital video compression standard, and has been very successful in courting DVD manufacturers to adopt the DivX format. But will that be enough to beat out competing compression methods as a new Hollywood standard? It faces tough competition, such as MPEG-4, RealVideo and Windows Media. Who will win the standards race and what will that mean for the companies that push the various compression methods?"

Comments

I'll second that...

[Miguelito]

Change the name, otherwise don't let the codec win.. teach the idiots a lesson for using that name.

Let's go trolling!

[rock_climbing_guy]

With anything from "Hollywood," we will have crippling DRM.

I won't buy a RealVideo set box because I don't want pop-ups on my TV.

MS - let's not even go there. We would only be able to play our movies on M$ Windoze foreverandeveramen.

DivX - oh, please, they would never adopt any standard that wasn't designed specifically to cripple fair use.

DivX...Xvid

[Brat Food]

Ok, while these codecs have brought the best of internet IP theft so i can watch my favorite TV shows and such, there is also one HUGE problem.. It's like no 2 files use the same mix of video+audio formats. This really sucks after you reinstall your computer and cant remember which of 100 things you need to install to get your Aqua teen hunger force video to play (if you havnt guessed, im dealing with that right now).

Another problem for adoptation i'd assume, would be the REAL MPEG4 codec and QuickTIme. If you havent worked in video professionally, you dont understand how much headace quicktime releaves, compared to trying to get stuff to encode/play with open source tools, and even windows media. Before you waste a keystroke trying to tell me otherwise.. go work with various digital media assets coming from multiple sources with open source, quicktime based, and windows media based. 8+ hours a day. 40 hours a week. See which you would base your post houses workflow on.

the true MPEG4 standard will most likely win out (if any is used at all) because of quicktime... thats a mainstay tool people use to put together tv/movies/DVDs now, changing would not make sense.