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HandBrake Abandons DivX As an Output Format

Posted by timothy on from the so-2003 dept.

An anonymous reader writes "DivX was the first digital video format to really win mainstream acceptance, doing for movies what MP3 did for music (both good and bad). Eventually even Sony, the king of proprietary formats, caved into pressure and added DivX support to its DVD players and the PlayStation 3. Now HandBrake's developers have made an interesting choice for version 0.9.4 — they ditched support for AVI files using DivX and XviD. Your only option now is to convert DVDs and other media to MKV or MP4 files, with the option to save as Apple-friendly M4V files. So why is HandBrake ditching AVI and XviD support when it's a format that's won such widespread acceptance? In the words of the developers, 'AVI is a rough beast. It is obsolete.'"

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  1. Re:I haven't used DIVX in years by ckaminski · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    And who are the idiots who compress with RAR and not ZIP?

    Seriously - the world has standardized on .ZIP (or at least the Microsofties of the world) *WHY* be different?