DivX releases new, high-quality video format

[dubstylee]

Upstart video technology company DivX released a new version of its digital video tools on Wednesday, claiming its quality matches or betters the latest rivals from Apple Computer or Microsoft.

The new technology, the sixth full release from the small San Diego company, is aimed at boosting DivX's role in the consumer market, and is designed for storing high-definition personal movies and even for distributing commercial movie releases.

The tools will be "interoperable with millions of DivX Certified DVD players and other devices," said Jordan Greenhall, chief executive officer of DivX. The video technology has "better performance, visual quality and wider interoperability than any other video technology on the market," he said.

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[TiaKo]

Microsoft....rivals? What... with Windows Media Virus.... cough... i mean...Windows Media Video format.

[AussieMatt]

DivX 6 also has support for DivX DRM and Video on Demand solutions ,That said we might finally get a online Netflix style DVD "unlimited' subscription service where you can get a certain amount of videos per week or month.

Greencine are trialing DivX Video on Demand and Burn to Rent but its not a unlimited service probably due to bandwith costs :they need to use Bittorrent but Dan Glickman wouldnt have anything to cry about if they did that.

http://www.greencine.com/static/divx/divxdrm_faq.jsp

[DigitalJunkie]

With DivX Converter Plugin, you can convert videos to high def. format. It's great! :-)

[zarquon]

No thanks, think i'll stick with xvid. Free and Open-source.

[Malakai1911]

No thanks, think i'll stick with xvid. Free and Open-source.

Amen to that, XviD is the best.

[phalkon30]

No thanks, think i'll stick with xvid. Free and Open-source.
Or get the k-lite codec pack, which has the pro codecs for free without all the spyware and crap. Not sure if they've included divx 6 yet, but I'd say give them a week or so.

[AussieMatt]

Menus ,Subtitles Mutiple Angles .........................can do it all with RatDVD ................DivX wont suceed .

[jona100]

Menus ,Subtitles Mutiple Angles .........................can do it all with RatDVD ................DivX wont suceed .

Trying burning a ratDVD file un altered onto a DVD and watching on your TV, you cant do it, its a PC only format, and limited to those who are happy to watch movies on their PC, most of us arnt.

i'll take Divx/Xvid over ratDVD anyday the extra fetaures on a dvd are of limited value to most people anyway.

[ABC123666]

The "new technology" is just a vob (which is used for dvd's) like container which suports multiple audio/video files and a menu system. Ogm and mkv have bein doing what this "new technology" claims to for well over a year. Plus they're free, open source formats that have matured over time, unlike the proprietary .divx format. Also, unless someone makes a firmware update for your chosen dvd player (which woent happen) you cant play .divx files on your "divx" player.

[AussieMatt]

Trying burning a ratDVD file un altered onto a DVD and watching on your TV, you cant do it, its a PC only format, and limited to those who are happy to watch movies on their PC, most of us arnt.
I'll take Divx/Xvid over ratDVD anyday the extra fetaures on a dvd are of limited value to most people anyway.

UnRatt the file and its a DVD with minimal quality loss.

who uses 700 MB CDs for video anymore this is 2005?

Blank DVD media can be found for less than 30c a piece.

Mpeg 4 wasnt supported and is still has limited support and penetration in the consumer electornics market .There may be ratDVD players in the future its only been two weeks that this format has been released.

[jona100]

UnRatt the file and its a DVD with minimal quality loss..

That the problem, you have to Uncompress to DVD format before burning. with divx & Xvid you can simply burn onto a CD or DVD and watch in a divx/xvid compatible player.

Considering the encoding time is an absolute enternity for DVD2RATDVD, i cant imagine the reverse is much faster!

[cletis_van_damm]

UnRatt the file and its a DVD with minimal quality loss.

who uses 700 MB CDs for video anymore this is 2005?

Blank DVD media can be found for less than 30c a piece.

Mpeg 4 wasnt supported and is still has limited support and penetration in the consumer electornics market .There may be ratDVD players in the future its only been two weeks that this format has been released.
I like making KVCDS and playing them on my dvd player

XviD rules.

[ivand67]

XviD > DivX > H.264 > WMV.

XviD will continue to be the King and the standard format on the scene.

[fireforce555]

I am still an Xvid fan as well.

[black_magiic]

yay for xvid

[ccc1005]

I am an Xvid fan but I gotta say the difference between the new Divx and Xvid are almost nonexistant, and I think Divx actually looks a little better. Ill try em both to see which I end up using...

[xrobot]

But now, encoding Divx 6 or Xvid is Hell. The new Divx Convertor is too simple, leaving no advance setting which is almost essential. For Xvid, Autogk may be good, but contain DAE spyware, damn!

I still want Dr.Divx for the Divx 6 reborn.

[boogiedan]

Yes i like movie formats that r small
n also good quality
thums up from me
we all can now get a quality film at around 200meg(or even less)
Thus on the various p2p/bt etc..
Lets all start sharing small size's
makes sense
more peeps can d/load/upload n view
and less time d/ing
What u lot think
anyhow's in my view divX is still no1 but Xvid close second
infact we have too many codes/formats around at the moment!!

[ccc1005]

But now, encoding Divx 6 or Xvid is Hell. The new Divx Convertor is too simple, leaving no advance setting which is almost essential. For Xvid, Autogk may be good, but contain DAE spyware, damn!

I still want Dr.Divx for the Divx 6 reborn.

Just use VirtualDub and the DIVX plugin, much better than Dr Divx IMO.

[mery4k]

I'm a new member, how can I dowload a divx player with all codecs?, that really work...somebody can help me in this?

[Mels_Smileys45]

Go here http://www.videolan.org/vlc/

This player will play almost anything with out actually having to install all those messy codecs.

[phalkon30]

If you preffer to use a different player, you can mess with codecs and use the k-lite codec pack.

http://www.free-codecs.com/download/K_Lite_Codec_Pack.htm

Then you should be able to watch divx in almost any player, along with any other obscure format.

[infringer]

Well... Upon numerous encodes after the divx 5 was released I found that divx had a better compression to quality ratio to my own eye with numerous screen shots takken as well as other things I base my opion upon I would have to say DivX now reigns champ in my mind XviD is open source that gives it an automatic edge to the leading competition and previous to 5.02 Divx codec I was a big promoter of XviD video but if you really take the time to do lots of encodes and such you will find that DivX is a bit better compression to quality though it is not open source which does suck I agree I would still have to say XviD is second best.

As far as menus and subtitles and so on so on once marketed believe it they will have that intergration as well it is already possible to run subtitles or menus for divx really alls menus and subtitles are is basically an addon that the dvd firmware understands it really does not have nothing to do with the compression codec being used so keep that in mind as well menus and subtitles are just additions to a codec any codec out there if commercialized can be equipped with menus or subtitles.... The encoding and decoding of the video is the only thing a codec is really good for.

So menus/subtitles differnt audio selections are really not worried about by many supporters of certain codecs because of this and therefore should not be a basis of the decision on weather or not you like a codec or not...

-infringer-