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XVID 1.0 Released

Posted by michael on from the graphic-violence dept.

Freedom66 writes "The 1.0 version of XVID codec is available. XviD is an ISO MPEG-4 compliant video codec like DIVX codec. It's an open source project which is developed and maintained by lots of people from all over the world. On the 31st December, Doom9 has made a codec comparison and XVID was at this time, one of the best codecs."

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  1. Re:Yea but.... by agent+oranje · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Though modded as flamebait, I'd say this is pretty insightful.

    XViD doesn't exist to make money... it doesn't exist for companies to sell their digital media to us... it exists as a good, open format which developers on any platform can play with, and any platform can play XViD movies without having to deal with royalty fees, DRM, and the likes.

    Believe it or not, there are uses for mp3s other than stealing music, and there are uses for XViD other than stealing movies. I don't want the content _I_ produce to be bogged down with DRM crap, and I don't want to be locked into an officially-licensed player five years down the line that only exists on a platform I don't even want to use. So what if commercial publishers don't want to use XViD because it doesn't have DRM - not everything on the internet was put there by commercial publishers. XViD is for people, not companies.

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    -agent oranje.