Comments on: DivX comes to PS3

By: Steven Kippel

Steven Kippel — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 00:43:07 +0000

Who hasn’t heard of Divx? You must be confused.

By: Terry

Terry — Sat, 15 Mar 2008 21:56:56 +0000

Tech Saavy guy??? hasnt heard of divx??? I am a christian but i’ve never heard of Jesus….

By: mister b

mister b — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 00:21:13 +0000

to clarify a point.. MPEG 4 is a multi-part standard which is still developing. MPEG 4 part 2 defines the codec divx, xvid etc are based upon. MPEG 4 part 10 defines the codec AVC/H264 are based on. MPEG 4 part 14 defines the ‘container format’ (aka .mp4 files..) that you’ve been talking about which is analogous to avi.

By: Wesley Novack

Wesley Novack — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 23:12:01 +0000

Personally, I’ve downloaded, encoded, converted and used Divx & Xvid codec videos many, many times.

As a recent example, I had an MPEG2 video file that was output from a video editing program I was using. That MPEG2 file was pretty large, so I was unable to upload to YouTube due to the file size. To get around this, I converted the video file to Divx and then uploaded to YouTube.

I also have a few Phillip’s DVD players that can play Divx and Xvid files on a CD-R. It’s very nice to have that support available on a DVD player.

By: Rex

Rex — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 09:42:33 +0000

Well the biggest draw and source of content is really user generated content and obviously thats not going to be shared across the net so easily but also XviD & Co never really made it in the video streaming arena.

But these days if it’s an AVI container it’s 99% likely to be XviD/DivX inside it, no-one uses AVI for MPEG-1/2 anymore.

By: Steven Kippel

Steven Kippel — Thu, 15 Nov 2007 06:46:56 +0000

AVI, MPEG-4 is a container, sure, but that still doesn’t mean I’ve downloaded any DivX files. AVI and MPEG files aren’t DivX still.

By: Rex

Rex — Wed, 14 Nov 2007 23:33:54 +0000

Uh they are right and your I’m afraid wrong or at least confused

AVI is just a container like MP4, MKV etc certain videos codecs can be shoehorned into AVI and MP4 (MKV is universal you can put anything into it).

MPEG-4 ASP = DivX, XviD, Nerodigital (asp) and 3ivx they are all based off that standard.

MPEG-4 AVC – H.264 video.

DivX/XviD is hugely popular especially with the TV show scene but also the fact that it is so fast to encode and a lot of easy software converters are out there. If your into HD and all that then your rather unlikely to be a fan of it due to the detail loss but for less discerning folks it’s generally the number one choice.

(Most H.264 encoders suck balls in terms of easy-ness with the exception of Nero’s, MeGUI is the best & free but has a UI for video pro’s)

The MP4 container which can also take MPEG-4 ASP video is really on a slow burn & the support of DivX on the game consoles with only slow it’s adoption even further.