DVD Players w/ DivX Certified

**simon_says_horrible** · February 21st, 2005, 05:13 AM

DivX Certified
A new generation of DVD players bridges the gap
between Internet video and your home theater

Developed and first released in 1999 by legendary French hacker Jerome Rota (aka "Gej"), DivX technology almost instantly won a rabid following among online video hounds. In much the same way as MP3 allowed music from CDs to be packed into manageable file sizes for fast, easy electronic distribution via file servers and e-mail, DivX emancipated high-resolution, full-screen video. The overwhelming grassroots response to "the MP3 of video" made it a global phenomenon by word-of-mouth alone, and DivX quickly grew to become the most widely used video technology in the world.

Bringing power to the people
In 2000, Gej joined forces with former MP3.com executive Jordan Greenhall to form DivXNetworks, Inc., and what began as a file-swapper's dream came into its own as a mainstream tool. Thanks in part to cooperative efforts between DivXNetworks and the Motion Picture Association of America, industry pundits are now heralding DivX's arrival as the most viable technology for widespread legitimate distribution of secure, high-quality video content via the Web.

Until recently, however, there's never been a convenient way for Web video addicts to transfer the fruits of their online labors from home-office PC to living-room entertainment suite. But now, all that is changing.

If it doesn't say it, it doesn't play it.
The DivX Home Theater Certified logo on home entertainment components indicates much more than just the presence of a chip to decode movies in DivX format. The DivX Certification program is a multifaceted assurance of broad compatibility for DivX-capable devices.

check out this classic DVD/DivX players.. looks bigger than todays DVDs.
http://news.com.com/Thomson+unveils+..._3-216212.html
http://news.com.com/2100-1040-218977.html

i think it's better use DivX instead of Xvid/3ivx since most new DVDs that i've seen in stores, are now DivX certified.

SanDiegoKid · February 21st, 2005, 02:12 PM

My experience is that they usually play Xvid just fine.

**mfgbypooter** · February 21st, 2005, 02:42 PM

One link doesn't work and the other is 7 years old.

**Rajarius** · February 21st, 2005, 03:15 PM

DivX and XviD are both an extension of the same standard and both will play fine on DivX certified players. Regardless, this is old news.

**infringer** · February 21st, 2005, 04:02 PM

Yeah well Xvid 1.03 has its issues and is not fully divx compliant upon numerous testing in a couple differnt certified players I have found that though xvid I prefer its standards being open source and freeware Divx offers better compression to quality ratio and is compliant with all of its compliant players...

Better to stick with divx... I hope more folks wonder back to using divx personally because of its compatibility with the players.

-infringer-

**simon_says_horrible** · February 22nd, 2005, 04:02 AM

i think DivX, Xvid, and 3ivx are non-standard MPEG4 (mp4) because they have different encoding techniques and 3ivx is just another DivX version for Mac. http://www.gromkov.com/faq/faq2004-0073.html
DivX - is a patent-pending, MPEG-4 based video compression technology.
3ivx - is an MPEG-4 codec based on the MPEG-4 ISO standard.
Xvid - is a GPL open source MPEG-4 video codec originally based on OpenDivX.
http://forum.doom9.org/showthread.php?s=&threadid=16935

i heard that the first DivX is based on the same code of non-standard MS MPEG4 v3 until it has been developed and written everything from scratch to enhance the quality and make it 100% legal. Since Microsoft failed to adopt MPEG4, maybe this is the reason why DivX is the format of choice by consumer electronics (check out the hardware/software products @ DivX.com) and still continue to grow in the market worldwide.

Originally Posted by mfgbypooter

One link doesn't work and the other is 7 years old.

it's just for some people who are curious about what the old players looks like but they have some good source though.

**jona100** · February 22nd, 2005, 05:24 AM

In my experience hardware divx players (i.e consumer DVD machines), a pretty damn poor at playing xvid/divx, whilist the picture and sound is excellent, they are notoriuos for pausing, jumping and 'chirping' frequently, making the file absolutely unwatchable.

**broadbit** · February 22nd, 2005, 07:17 AM

I have 1 of them. My parents have one and my sister has one. Thats the only dvd player that we have and I am constantly feeding my machine overnet downloads ed2k. about 500 full length divx movies I have to date... I've got the Phillips model

**infringer** · February 22nd, 2005, 12:06 PM

yeap... same here got the phillips tried a couple of other models as well I have had no issues with the certified Divx Phillips players however I have had issues with a non certified player and divx on a couple of movies. When it comes to xvid the movies enocoded with the older xvid codec seem to play more often the the movies encoded with 1.02 and 1.03 espicially when using sharp mpeg matrix....

-infringer-

SanDiegoKid · February 22nd, 2005, 03:04 PM

That old "Divx" player crap has nothing to do with the DivX video codec.

I knew a guy who bought one of those players. I laughed every time he had to pay a fee to watch his $5.00 DVD. He bought a bunch of those discs too. What a loser. I'm glad I don't hang out with him anymore. I would have given him a deadly liver punch by now.

**infringer** · February 22nd, 2005, 06:45 PM

like the old JVC models I believe they were proscan or something and shit yeah you'd be supprised how many folks were suckered into buying them DVD players off of ebay at one time for a high price as well as the movies lol

what a joke.

Glad I had my facts straght when looking for the first generation DivX player I bought...

-infringer-

**wingnut2600** · February 22nd, 2005, 07:50 PM

I bought myself a lovely Yamaha DVD player that is Divx certified... it is superb. It has nice sampling ratings and supports DTS and Dolby Digital as well as pro scan, etc. I rather enjoy the flexibility of the .avi functionality.

**the great one** · February 22nd, 2005, 11:30 PM

I have the philips model and it works great!I don't encode to divx much anymore since the price of dvdr's is so cheap,but I still have a few hundred divx movies I can play on it.

**Undying Wizard NHD** · February 22nd, 2005, 11:46 PM

my Xbox plays divx just fine thanks to alot of mods :)

**Ogi** · February 23rd, 2005, 04:20 AM

Originally Posted by Undying Wizard NHD

my Xbox plays divx just fine thanks to alot of mods :)

Yeah, installed my Xbox with linux (www.xbox-linux.org, no modchip required) and now plays DVD,Xvid,DivX, WMV, MP4 (via streaming from my wireless network) and just about any other format you can find - all on my TV, bliss.....

+ it still plays games

And all for £99!! see how much a dedicated player that plays all those formats will cost (if it exists) not counting that you can add any new codec to it (provided it works on a standard linux distro).