PS3 Gets DivX Support, Coming Soon to Xbox 360

Posted by Zonk on Tuesday November 13, 2007 @03:43AM

Mpegged writes "The popular DivX video codec will soon be supported on the PlayStation 3 via a future firmware update. DivX CEO Kevin Hell also hinted that support is coming to the 360 as well. 'During the SMid Cap conference call with investment firm JP Morgan, Hell was asked if the recent deal that will see DivX codecs shipped with new versions of Microsoft's standalone Media Center Extenders means that such support will also be arriving on the Xbox 360. "Yes!" was his immediate reply, although he quickly qualified that confirmation with a disclaimer that the deal was still in the negotiation process and had not yet been finalized.'"

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Re:DivX... do people still use that? by Wordsmith · 2007-11-13 04:04 · Score: 5, Informative

Divx support means the ability to decode those Xvid files (at least in theory). Mpeg-4 Part II, of which both codecs are implementations, is set up so that implementations can vary in their encodes (like, say, two different MP3 encoders would do), decoding should work identically.
Re:DivX Players? by DrXym · 2007-11-13 05:23 · Score: 4, Insightful

I have a DivX Player... It's called a computer...
Good for you. Next you're going to say that your computer is hooked up to your TV and everyone else should do the same?
Fact is the PS3 and the 360 are plugged into a TV by definition and have more than enough power to play music and video. In that capacity it makes perfect sense to utilise them as multimedia jukeboxes.