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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 It is obsolete.'"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
Ich Bindawalross (London) - GNAA (NYSE: GNAA) President timecop released a statement today regarding the immediate Internet release of MacOS X for the x86 architecture, available on many BitTorrent networks. After making the statement, timecop yielded the stage to a second speaker at the press conference, Apple Computer co-Founder and CEO, Steve "Rim" Jobs, now fully recovered from his recent gender reassignment surgery to field questions from attending press members.
"We here at Apple Computerth [sic] have decided on a slightly different path for the upcoming version of the MacOS X," Jobs states before bursting out into high pitched giggles. "We have replaced our overpriced and bloated software with an efficient and easy-to-use interface. I would like to take this opportunity to announce a merger larger than a Zimbabwe nigger cock: GNAA and Apple Computer."
Returning to the podium, timecop began speaking again, while Steve Jobs submitted to orally pleasuring his ten inch nigger cock. "Dedicated faggots have been loyally purchasing the homosexual software and hardware abomination that is Macintosh computers. Apple has been striving to provide software customers with the most flambouyantly homosexual combination available. However, in recent days, this hasn't been enough.
"There has been increasing pressure from the disgustingly obese Lunix nerds and the socially well-adjusted and popular Windows users to convert, as well as pressure from OS X emulators to provide consumers with increasingly gay products. Apple Computer has decided to merge with GNAA in order to broaden the appeal and better serve the interests of all those who buy Macintosh products. Furthermore, we will adopt Apple's "Step 2 ???? PROFIT!" marketing model. This will also stop Apple from going out of business, which they probably would have otherwise."
At this point, timecop paused and deposited a quart of Gaynigger seed into Steve Jobs' mouth.
"GNAApple is committed to our new OS X86. Rather than give the user the difficulty of finding pornography themselves, we provide them with the classic hello.jpg, redundantly archived and brand labeled throughout the 950 MB DVD image, as well as a bundled copy of GPA (Gay Porn Avalanche). Now, greater efficiency in masturbatory pursuits can be provided to all."
"As Slashdot users, many of you might have been exposed to the pirated release, and information pertaining to it. We would like to thank Rob "CmdrCocko" Malda for running the first article, leading to the release of information about our upcoming merger. We would also like to extend our gratitude to thepiratebay.org and XiSO for helping us spread the release over the 'underground scene.' We thank you, the IRC channels who put it on their hacked .edu xdcc bots and fserves who hosted it on your dialup connections.
Steve Jobs, recovering from the large dosage of AIDS from the variety of syphilitic, festering sores of GNAA members, rose to his feet at this point during the press conference. "Our previous versions of OS X were released prematurely, and as a result the operating system was unstable and fragile. Our team of software engineers have also decided to abandon the weak and inefficient UNIX backside in favor of a more efficient and robust alternative: WinNT. The pirated version of our new operating system has had record acclaim from users of the Jewish-based internet news organization known as "Slashdot".
"Those doubting the superiority of our new release need only read user testimonials."
"The Torrent going around as: Mac OS X Tiger X86 READNFO-XISO It's a complete fake. When the image is booted it shows a picture of a guy showing off his Bu** H**e." - Anon Coward
"if you unrar, burn, and boot like the .nfo file says, it just boots it to a
very lovely goatse image. no joke, wasted two hours of my life and
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?
My thoughts exactly.Oh boy, it'll be great to drop the one format my COTS player has. It's the equivalent of a digital audio player not playing MP3s.
Typical OSS developer mindset: "If you buy $500 worth of hardware, then you can run the newest version of our software, which is FREE!!"
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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
You want a bug fixed in your ancient MySQL 4.1 install? Fucking pay for it. Otherwise, the devs have better things to do than listen to you whinge about how nobody will write up special patches just for you to fix bugs that were removed years ago.
> h264 is so incredible you don't need divx anyway.
As good as it is, staying away from Apple's codecs can only be a good thing.
Why not ogg theora as default? With handbrake's support a free and open video codec could finally come to the fore.
Handbrake project got invaded by Apple fanboys, They also removed all the profiles except the Apple ones, go figure. The tool is now about as useful as a chocolate fireguard, and most people have either moved to other tools, or using old versions..
Shame it used to be a good app.. What idiot would lock an app down to apple-only profiles, when they have such a small marketshare?
the thing is vlc is very widely used your media player classic is used by a small group thats goal is to drive us to sales of higher end ocmputers we dont need
i for one dont want any HD bullcrap evenif your offering it to me for free
i dont want DRM mp4s that your all in love with
unless they are made with x264 or h264.avc
again no drm
and yes i encode
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.