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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. Tom's Hardware is slipping. by Adam+Zweimiller · · Score: 5, Informative

    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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  2. Re:DMF? by Apotsy · · Score: 5, Informative
    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).

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  3. Just tested a DivX 6 file on my DVP642 by kennedy · · Score: 5, Informative

    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!