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- REXNFX, on 11/14/2007, -3/+23Better late then never.
- fallenone05, on 11/14/2007, -0/+10Sweet! I will be able to watch Divx movies on my psp through remote play as well
- MindTrigger, on 11/13/2007, -1/+11I really like DivX and all they have done over the past few years. It's too bad they haven't seen more widespread, mainstream use online.
- motang, on 11/13/2007, -3/+12Sweet! This makes them more viable and appeal more to the media centric crowd!
- chkdg8, on 11/14/2007, -0/+8Hellz yeah! We can finally stream divx and just chill in the other room without getting up or converting to some proprietary format. I have both 360 and ps3 so I wonder if there will be any performance differences while streaming divx files. Who cares, just enjoy it!
- Hickeroar, on 11/13/2007, -2/+9Like the next-gen systems out now, right? ;)
- koonchu, on 11/13/2007, -9/+15My XBOX 360 is sitting on the ***** shelf collecting dust. Played some of the big game "hits," but my original XBOX (with XBMC) is getting ALL The action. I play at least three hours worth of xvid and divx a day on that sucker.
- rowlodge, on 11/14/2007, -1/+7i redo quicktime movies in divx because its the only thing that will reduce 200 megabytes down to 75 megabytes and not even be noticed.
- Christbait, on 11/13/2007, -3/+9Okay, enough of the ironic posts relating to how confused the 7th gen is. We get it; PS3 is best for washing the dishes, and the 360 makes some damn tasty toast.
- Gerz1219, on 11/14/2007, -0/+5The legality of Xvid is a bit shady. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvid#Patent_issues
The advantage of DivX, as far as big media companies are concerned, is that it has a logo and a brand name, and a centralized corporate bureaucracy to deal with. DVD manufacturers can slap the DivX logo on their box, pay a small royalty fee, and rest easy. It looks official and legal, and it is -- it's just that 99% of the DivX content played on those DVD players will be illegal. - negativefx, on 11/14/2007, -0/+5@koonchu: 3 hours of porn a day? damn dude.....
- smackhero, on 11/14/2007, -0/+4why would people use a proprietary codec when XviD provides a GNU alternative that works on all platforms and OSes?
- rndm, on 11/14/2007, -2/+5I just had to sign up, to be able to do this... WE KNOW! Never thought my first comment would be this revealing. Cigarette here I come. That's all... Thank you.
- macromorgan, on 11/14/2007, -0/+3x264 = h.264, right? The support is already there, though I know for a fact the PS3 is a bit finicky when it comes to container files...
- samdu, on 11/14/2007, -0/+3TVersity works equally well for the PS3. But native support > transcoding every day of the week.
- Gerz1219, on 11/14/2007, -0/+3Xvid and DivX are interoperable. If you have either one installed you can play both (most people just have a codec pack installed, so you never notice the difference).
- samdu, on 11/14/2007, -1/+4Sony' s been working on DivX support for the PS3 for a while now. Way before the 360 rumors surfaced.
- pcpimpster, on 11/14/2007, -1/+4If you setup the 360 to connect to any XP, 2003 or Vista computer running orb.com software you can stream divx through your 360 already. This may even work for the PS3. I tried the MCE 2005 fix which encodes on the fly but found it was way too cpu intensive and unstable compared to just using the orb.com software. www.orb.com - check it out, its good stuff.
- zdislaw, on 11/14/2007, -1/+3I've been using Transcode360 to play Divx and Xvid for a while now. It works great for playback, but FF and RW are pretty terrible. Thanks for the orb.com reccomendation.
Transcode 360: http://runtime360.com/projects/transcode-360/ - staticneuron, on 11/13/2007, -0/+2Nero media home is brilliant for the PS3. Tversity is great for the 360.
- DarkShroud, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1Since when is divx (& xvid), & H.264 a Sony/MS format? This divx support will allow xvid playback as well. Also, yellow linux works better on the PS3.
- Sarlac, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1guess not, since I submitted it minutes after the post to ARS
- P5ycHo, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1Who said the DiVX support would be there to display user movies?
I would never expect a movie company like sony to enable such a wide used codec for illegal movie copies.
What I do think is that they'll use it in Home for advertising or something.
Lets just hope I'm wrong here. - cash0utcurse, on 11/14/2007, -3/+43rd time on the front page today... gotta love moron diggers.
- watwasthat, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Ive been playing most popular video formats on my 360 for a long time. Just use Tversity. It works on Playstation 3 also. It plays anything that will play in WMP. http://tversity.com/home
- negativefx, on 11/14/2007, -1/+2tversity sucks. no fast forward, dumb xbox interface (not tversity's fault of course), and a retarded pc config interface (that IS tversity's fault.) I can't remember the last time I used a program that had a more pathetic interface than tversity. xbmc blows it out of the water and it's a shame that MS won't allow it to be ported. my xbox still gets a ton of runtime because of xbmc.
- Wrathernaut, on 11/14/2007, -2/+3Some day these guys are going to realize that people do archive their own videos and audio in formats other than Sony/Microsoft's.
When they put VLC in the XMB and use the free codecs that Linux uses, I may not have a reason to have Ubuntu on my PS3. - TritonX, on 11/15/2007, -0/+1Digg me down, but I won't believe it until I see it.
- krische, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Been using orb myself. Works anywhere on the internet. Works on my ps3, just use the web browser to login to your mycast page and all is set.
- TyR88, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1no, gotto love the different timezones
- TyR88, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1Sony = Japanese or w/e.
- geoken, on 11/14/2007, -0/+1That's my point. I thought the desire to play divx was based on the fact that the wide majority of movies shared through p2p were encoded in divx, which doesn't seem to be the case anymore (most are in xvid, or the HD ones that are trying to maintain quality are usually in h.264).
- cmdrNacho, on 11/13/2007, -0/+1I have HD support on mine.. I only have 1080i but with xbox component cables, it does support it.
get a newer build - DarkShroud, on 11/14/2007, -1/+1So the simple version is while MS is still "in talks" Sony has already sealed the deal and the next update should have Divx. I for one will not miss transcoding.
- Sarlac, on 11/14/2007, -1/+1why not
- fani, on 11/13/2007, -1/+1Sweet. divx on xbox360 would be nice. Although XBMC trumps them by a lot, xbmc is beginning to show its age - lack of HD support due to old processor on xbox is starting to be a downer.
I love XBMC though and regularly use it. What a super awesome product. Hoping MS will hire those folks to make Xbox360 into a killer media/gaming/all-in-one device. It has the potential and that will surely make it a PS3 killer. - macromorgan, on 11/14/2007, -1/+1"Some day these guys are going to realize that people do archive their own videos and audio in formats other than Sony/Microsoft's."
Both consoles support the H.264 flavor of MP4 if I'm not mistaken (the PS3 certainly does, I cannot vouch for the Xbox360 as I do not own one). - ProKid, on 11/14/2007, -5/+5I guess you guys didn't catch this when it got popular and made it to the top 10
- gage006, on 11/13/2007, -1/+1PLEASE Microsoft. Give us divx!
- heartcoldfusion, on 11/13/2007, -3/+3Déjà vu? http://www.digg.com/playstation_3/DivX_support_to_ ...
- guruboyguru, on 11/13/2007, -2/+2I totally forgot that Ubuntu is a free codec-based media player!
- pcpimpster, on 11/13/2007, -2/+1Heres a link on how to play divx through the consoles now. http://corp.orb.com/gamers/index.htm
- rndm, on 11/14/2007, -1/+0http://stage6.divx.com/ ...?
- danielgreyy, on 11/14/2007, -2/+0Wish you idiots would stop posting the same damn stories over and over. This is what, the 4th time? Maybe 5th?
- geoken, on 11/14/2007, -6/+4Is DivX still relevant? I thought the open source xvid pretty much killed off DivX?
- Topher06, on 11/13/2007, -3/+1When torrents start downloading in x264, then I will care about that format.
- murf43143, on 11/14/2007, -7/+1Buried.
- rudy23, on 11/14/2007, -10/+4dupe
- catch-22, on 11/13/2007, -9/+3it's a step in the right direction, but still behind the times... where's the x264 support?
- guruboyguru, on 11/14/2007, -10/+3You WILL get dugg down for that one, but it's true, right? 65nm-based console CPUs anyone?
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