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DivX 6.0 is Out

Posted by timothy on from the now-about-the-content dept.

mattspammail writes "DivX 6.0 is out. Even Tom's Hardware has an article on it. According to TFA, this should be a big step up in compression and features. DVD-style menus are now an option."

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  1. Compression by bodester17 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Who needs to compress video anymore? Just put it on a new blue-ray disk in HighDef.

  2. DirectX 6.0... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fuck. I just stared at the screen for five minutes thinking "DirectX 6.0? What the hell, it's not April Fool's day, why are we getting bad satire"?

  3. Divx 6.0 by Enrique1218 · · Score: 3, Funny

    Ah the next revolution in porn is here!! :)

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  4. Uggghh by gbulmash · · Score: 3, Funny
    I thought Circuit City gave up on those "watch once" DVDs years ago.

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  5. Re:Nooo! by bad_outlook · · Score: 2, Funny

    I know, it's an "OPTION" that means if he doesn't want it, fine. They have higher octaine gas at the gas station, but I don't want it, so I stick with what I want. Let me know if you need further explanation...

    bo

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  6. I felt a disturbance in the force... by Winckle · · Score: 5, Funny

    As if a hundred MPAA executives cried out in pain and were suddenly silenced.

    1. Re:I felt a disturbance in the force... by sharkey · · Score: 2, Funny
      So THAT'S why all the Jedi here spontaneously ejaculated.

      Mmm, Force Orgasm.

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  7. Re:Nooo! or is it a feature? by Trigun · · Score: 3, Funny

    I just use mplayer and run the sub files through babelfish a few times. English->German-French->English usually does the trick.

  8. Re:Tom's Hardware is slipping. by poptones · · Score: 3, Funny

    I was immensly disappointed with the Tom's Hardware article. It was incredibly shallow and vague, a significant change for them.

    If I had mod points I'd give you a +1 for sarcastic wit.

  9. Possibly not an Information Theory major by Tim+Browse · · Score: 4, Funny
    In my tests with the new DivX Encoder--a tool scheduled to replace the company's Dr. DivX--I could re-encode DivX 5 files as DivX 6, with the resulting file size not much larger than the ZIP-compressed DivX 5 file. This implies a compression scheme that is just about as capable as the most aggressive Lempel-Ziv algorithms available.

    Er...ok.

    Mercifully free from the ravages of scientific method :-)

  10. Re:Nooo! by pla · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is this done for performance?

    Your typical $30-$50 standalone DVD player doesn't have nearly that level of sophistication... Preloading? Hah! They can't even buffer enough to get deinterlacing and layer breaks right!

    No, the annoying menu effects have always existed for one reason and one reason only - To prepare us for the overwhelming quantity and slowness of scene change effects in Revenge of the Sith. Lucas has known for years that they would annoy us, so he used his substantial Hollywood influence to force similar effects anytime you press the simplest button on your DVD player's remote, in hopes of desensitizing the public to such a huge annoyance.

    He would apologize, but his "artistic vision" for RotS demanded this minor sacrifice on our part.

    Subtitles? Spinning cutscene coming at you just to pick "English". Stereo to Surround? Six-way slice. Back to the main menu? Fade to black and back. Actually picking something from the main menu? Get ready for a transition longer than the MST3k "movie sign" sequence.


    Just deal with it. At least they don't show commercials between "scenes", as well.