DivX 7 Adds Support For Blu-ray Rips (H.264/MKV)

mrspin writes "DivX looks set to continue to be the video format of choice for 'grey' content, with the company announcing that version 7 adds support for H.264 video and, more significantly, the Matroska (MKV) container. Anybody familiar with Blu-ray rips found on BitTorrent sites or other filesharing networks will instantly recognize the MKV file format in combination with the H.264 codec as a popular way to deliver High Definition video on a PC. And now that DivX is throwing its weight behind the Matroska container, MKV support should increasingly find its way on a range of non-PC devices, such as Blu-ray players, HD digital televisions and set-top boxes."

Comments

Re:So, remind me again...

[Anonymous Coward]

H.264 gives unequalled compression on CP and terrorist training videos.
I'm not sure about the technical reasons behind this.

Re:H.264/HE-AAC support in Flash Player 9

[cj1127]

Yeah, it'll never catch on! http://www.youtube.com/

Re:H.264/HE-AAC support in Flash Player 9

[HiVizDiver]

I can fit more than a whole season of Dora on a single disk and keep the little one quiet on long trips

Careful, statements like that will get you ragged on in here about how you're a horrible parent (by people who have never even touched a member of the opposite sex, let alone had kids of their own), and you should be taking your child outside to play - while you're in the car on long trips. ;-)

Re:H.264/HE-AAC support in Flash Player 9

[h4rm0ny]

They will then battle with the radical feminists claiming you subjugated a free womyn by forcing her to have kids.

Sometimes it's hard to have a conversation on Slashdot with the radical feminists leaping in all the time. :)