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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. 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"?

  2. 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.

  3. 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 :-)