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."

Comments

Decoding DivX

[paul248]

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.

Re:Decoding DivX

[Jherek Carnelian]

Are you kidding? All my attempts to use alpha version of ffdshow on windows have resulted in all kinds of weirdness

You just have to get a stable build. I use a build from october of 2004 or so (don't have it right in front of me) and it is significantly faster than either the divx or xvid decoders. It is rock-stable solid.

Plus the other ffdshow filters like scaling, noise removal, deblocking, logo-killer, etc can make a HUGE improvement in the final quality of the rendered image - especially for low-rez sources like most divx encodes. Might not make so much of a difference on a 17" monitor but on a 100" front projector the difference is night and day.

Tom's Hardware is slipping.

[Adam Zweimiller]

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

Re:Tom's Hardware is slipping.

[Vellmont]

Agreed. Toms Hardware is nothing but a big ad for the products it reviews. It was a good site years ago, but now it's just an advertising site with little integrity left.

Re:Nooo!

[Idimmu Xul]

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.

Re:DMF?

[Apotsy]

Quicktime is proprietary

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).

Just tested a DivX 6 file on my DVP642

[kennedy]

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.

no need to worry!

Re:Does anyone still actually prefer divx over xvi

[coolsva]

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)