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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. Just like DivX, except.... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Just like DivX, except lacking in the GATOR software installation.

  2. still waiting ..... by drfrog · · Score: 5, Interesting

    for mpeg-4 systems part of the spec to be implemented
    overview

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  3. Ripping now... by digitalhermit · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Cool... I'm at this moment ripping "BladeRunner TDC". Transcoding with the xvid library is almost done. Quality is really very good versus some of the commercial applications out there for Windows. For example, the deep blue scenes in "Finding Nemo" tend to look blocky and sort of like a mosaic with a commercial Win2K program. Using DVDRip with xvid (on a Fedora Core 1 machine) the same scene is a lot smoother and the color gradients are not nearly as noticeable.

    On a related note, I'll soon be trying out some of the pre/post filters for DVDRip. They do take a LONG time however. I've noticed that the Linux versions, when ripping at high quality, takes at least 20% longer than the Windows program at a similar bitrate. But the quality is better so I'm happy.

  4. Re:DRM doesn't happen at the codec level by secolactico · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So I still wonder how accepted an open sourced codec will be in the short run, since 95% of desktop users run Windows, without requiring someone to manually install a codec

    Depends on what you mean by "manually install".

    Windows Media Player tries to download the codec if the media is in a format it doesn't recognize, but divx (last time I tried) is not recognized nor downloaded automatically.

    So people simply go to the divx site, download the installer and execute it. All that is required for xvid to be used by windows users is for someone to make an installer for it (and there already is one).

    That said, I haven't seen many xvid videos around in the newsgroups or on p2p networks.

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  5. Hackers got xvid.org? by sridev · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This is what I see on the website...

    XviD owned ?? oohhhh yeahhh BloodBR ownz XviD - sorry admin leak@hackermail.com