Recommendations for Desktop DivX Players?

Posted by Cliff on Tuesday June 15, 2004 @08:27AM from the hassle-free-hardware dept.

Gheesh asks: "Early this year I was thinking on buying a desktop DVD/DivX player. When the KISS issue with MPlayer arose, I decided to postpone the purchase until things cleared up. Six months have gone by and there is not much useful information around on the licensing and hacker-friendly capabilities of the various hardware players that have appeared since then. Can anybody provide some insight into this subject?" Are there any hardware players out there that aren't mired in licensing fights that actually are worth the money?

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Xbox by Vaevictis666 · 2004-06-15 08:37 · Score: 5, Informative

Not for everybody, but I went the modded xbox route. Using a soft mod you can get XBMC on it running divx (or xvid, ogm, whatever) off of the DVDRom, hard disk, or even over the network. No remote control unless you get the DVD remote addon or a wireless controller, but it does work quite well. And it sure beats bringing the PC out from the other room :P