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DivX 6.0 is Out
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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http://download.divx.com/divx/DivXPlay.exe
ANyways, this has been out for not too long and it really is a great new release unlike many past versions.
I've always found ffdshow to be a much less crapware-like codec for watching DivX video. Not sure how it handles the new v6 stuff though.
Wow, i downloaded divx 6.0 this morning and didnt even realise its this fresh off the press.
After a quick play around with it, there didnt seem to be any noticable diffrence in encoded quality but the file size did drop a bit
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That will never happen. The article doesn't go into much detail aside from the press releases from the DivX group, but as far as I can tell, it still doesn't support multiple audio streams, like OGM and it's not open source either.
There will always be multiple codecs and file formats that correspond to different uses. DivX will be great for what the company is positioning it to do, which is provide a smaller, easier to transfer format with enough bells and whistles to cut into the highly-profitable DVD market.
The last linux version was 5.05 http://www.divx.com/divx/linux/
Did you RTWFS ('read the whole fucking sentece')
"option" means you don't need to use it.
But, DivX 6.0 is entirely different then VideoLan. DivX 6.0 is a codec, not a viewer. The company called DivX does make a player also, but that is not what the article is about.
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I was immensly disappointed with the Tom's Hardware article. It was incredibly shallow and vague, a significant change for them. It was more marketing/press release than it was informative and objective review or introduction. If I wanted that I would read the information on divx.com. For those of you who want a mor technical and in-depth discussion, look no further than the Doom 9 Forums
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If I recall correctly XviD is the OpenSource version of DivX. Im wondering how long untill they are fully compatible with DivX 6.
Digital Video Express abandoned their trademark on DIVX after the format went dead.
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It was named "DivX ;)" because it was picking on the failed format that you described. The naming is no unfortunate coincidence, it was named that purposely. In that context (which most people around here now), your post is off-topic and redundant. Stop crying.
The Neap0litan XviD-Ogg-MKV Walkthrough is totally awesome and shows you in a step by step manner how to create an XviD/Ogg/MKV from a DVD complete with subtitles, it is beyond awesome.
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It's fully available for Mac also, and can be played back with FFDshow which is open-source cross-platform.
mplayer supports it someway (probably using FFDshow) also.
So, it's just the wait for FFDshow to update to support any "new" features of 6.
Not really. The container format is pretty well documented, especially since it is part of the MPEG-4 standard. Sometimes you might encounter movies that use a Quicktime container but use a proprietary codec (like Sorenson), but that doesn't make the container itself proprietary.
ISO MPEG - is this even a container?
Yes, the MPEG-4 standard defines a container format, based on the Quicktime format (see above).
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The flipside of that is that if it doesn't support something (IIRC it can only do one of mms and rtsp streams) there's no way to get it to. I prefer media player classic, then just get the k-lite codec pack. Probably comes to less download over all.
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Except, on first glance, it looks like the only way to get 6.0 is through a "Player Bundle" rather than just a codec. There doesn't appear to be any way of getting just a codec without their own player too.
Then use H.264 instead of DivX. It's smaller. It's also supported in QuickTime 7, Nero Showtime uses it, ffmpeg and vlc (beta) use it, and there's even a windows codec floating about (Moonlight-Elecard).
Me, I like DivX/Xvid better because it doesn't take as much CPU as H.264 (AKA AVC/Mpeg 4 part 10) - also, my DVD player can play DivX/Xvid just fine.
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DivX 5 was an MPEG-4 codec. As are XviD, 3ivx, ffmpeg's MPEG-4, QuickTime's MPEG-4, and lots of other codecs. They are all interoperable (if you don't enable extravagant mpeg features).
Divx 6 turns out to be just another proprietary video codec that nobody needs. I'm sure it will do better than h.264 since it doesn't comply to any spec. And they where able to look at lots of perfectly working "sample code".
VLC gets its video playback capabilites mostly from libavcodec (from the ffmpeg project). Before VLC used that library it only was able to play MPEG2 and 1, IIRC.
So, just as much you could use VLC, you can also use another player that uses the libavcodec and get similarly good results.
ffdshow is a DirectShow wrapper for libavcodec and makes it usable with almost all classic windows video players.
I personally prefer MPlayer which also uses libavcodec. It doesn't have a GUI but you get all control you need with the keyboard. But it still got lots of useful features accessible by the command line (using -dumpstream with a RM- or WMV stream for example).
Because most discs are dual layer, ripping them in this fashion isn't good for piracy since you'll need expensive dual layer media to burn them to; I've used it with great success for storing my out-of-print DVDs, however.
Ok, so i downloaded the clip of that star wars fan film from the divx site, burned to a cd-r and tossed it into my philips DVP642 - it decoded the video with *no* issue, however it did skip past the menu that you will see on a windows system with the DivX Player.
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h.264 is the new MPG codec. Ratified as part of the MPEG-4 standard (MPEG-4 Part 10), this ultra-efficient technology gives you excellent results across a broad range of bandwidths, from 3G for mobile devices to iChat AV for video conferencing to HD for broadcast and DVD. http://www.apple.com/quicktime/technologies/h264/ Apple ships it with Quicktime 7, which is avaliable for Windows as a preview over at Apples site yet, and it is just........ you really just got to see it at work. I only encode all my TV shows I capture into h.264 since EyeTV made it an option. Its just got such high quality for small file size. Go get quicktime, then go to the trailer section, watch Batman Begins in 720p, you will see what everyone is talking about.
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FYI, what the parent says is the history of Divx. An open source project called OpenDivx was started to extend/enhance the 'illegal DivX:)'. Once it reached a critical mass and a good code base, DivxNetworks apparently decided to allegedly take up the code base and convert it to a closed source Divx codec. In theory, OpenDivx was left to continue beyond version 4.0Alpha, but it never did. People rather started a GPL version and called it XVID
As of now, Divx vx Xvid is like BSD vs Linux. Both are equally good, neck in neck. Only difference is, Xvid cannot, by law, distributed as executable. MPEG4 is patented and Xvid is only distributed as source (except by good folks like Nic & Koepi)
From the Neowin article:
Presumably that means DivX playing software as well as hardware.
Mplayer has a GUI. You need to compile the GUI in with mplayer.
There is a ton of nifty skins too. Ones that even look like Windows media player too. The good thing about mplayer is it takes advantage of whatever your system has to put out. My PPro 200Mhz has a Voodoo 5 5500 and I could actually use Glide for my video output. Nifty little program.
Here is where you get the skins
Check em out. I never really used the GUI but some people like it for there video player.
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I regularly record movies into .ogm containers. I always use ffmpeg's MPEG-4, and use either vorbis or AC3 for audio.
Only one of those codecs is from Xiph (a.k.a. "the ogg people").
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Probably more accurate to compare it as BSD versus SunOS pre-AT&T lawsuit at the time of the split. It's more like BSD v Linux now.
XviD doesn't pay fees to the mp4 people so it's not legal as an executable.
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