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HandBrake Abandons DivX As an Output Format
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 It is obsolete.'"
With the last release. Kind of old news. I agree with the decision. h.264 is clearly the way of the (immediate) future
Propz to GNAA
HandBrake is the de-facto standard for creating h.264 files on Mac, Linux and Windows systems. You should get to know it; you won't miss that crappy, proprietary DivX.
Yeah, but it's going to be inexperienced users trying to play their torrent, now in some crap elitist format.
In the words of the developers, 'AVI is a rough beast. It is obsolete.'"
Yes... Windows and the .DOC and .DOCX file formats are also obsolete and a big mess.
Why are people still using them?
Don't people realize their lives would be so much easier if they switched to Linux, KOffice, and started saving everything as .ODT and .PDF files?
Big bloated, bad interface. I'm sure we'll do without it.
If Google really cared they would fix Android Chrome to reflow text, instead of discriminating
Oh please! can we just let this pedantic BS just DIAF already? Everyone knows what I mean by "support MKV" which is the standard MKV file made by the newest DivX, which IIRC is H264+AAC. So why in the hell should we always have to write "until it supports MKV H264+AAC" instead of MKV?
It is the SAME bullshit with .avi. if someone says they have a problem playing an AVI file, do you automatically think it is a QT + AAC in an avi wrapper? Hell no! You think it is a DivX or Xvid avi, period. Because guess what? That is what it is!
So yeah, theoretically you can put anything in a MKV or avi, but guess what? Theoretically elephants can hang off cliffs by a dandelion and monkies could theoretically fly out of my ass, that don't make it reality. In reality mkv is H26x+aac, and avi is DivX/Xvid. So can we PLEASE stop this grammar Nazi BS with regards to codecs? Nobody actually puts funky formats into bog standard containers like avi or mkv, at least not in the 15 years I've been dealing with PCs. Avi=Xvid/Divx, mkv=H26x+aac. Simple huh?
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.