labs.divx.com — The DivX team are at CES this year and are posting high quality video footage of the cool stuff on show using their new browser plug-in. Highlights so far include new gear from Logitech, Creative Zencast, an interview with Fireant, and the DivX team getting Tazered (must see footage!). The things we do for our fans... ;)
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heydriverJan 8, 2006
After going to the sys. requirements page...<a class="user" href="http://labs.divx.com/archives/000072.html">http://labs.divx.com/archives/000072.html</a>I found that my current version of Opera (v.8.51 build 7712) is stated to be compatible with this plugin. And, it is. (I can't believe I'm gonna do this)d/load plugin for windows.execute and save to program files.copy and paste .dll file into Opera's plugin folder...viola!!works great.might be a bit of a memory hog...got some checking out to do..but, all in all the plugin works good.Waltaka HeyDriver
worbdJan 8, 2006
Too bad that the thing connects to their servers to tell them that you installed it, and also gets ads. Read the EULA... I'm not installing this crap.
carbitoJan 9, 2006
That plugin is awesome.
crazy4moviesJan 9, 2006
This is awesome!! Thank you Divx !
jo42Jan 9, 2006
DivX = Closed Source = BAD.XviD = Open Source = Good!
digital56kJan 9, 2006Submitter
My my wordb, we are quite the little TROLL aren't we?Allow me to copy some of my responses to you from another thread:--------------------worbd - there is no spyware in the plug-in. DivX actually worked very hard to stop distributing any products with third-party adware components way back in July 2004.When you install the plug-in we simply count the installation so that we can see approximately how many people are using it. It's similar to a hit counter on a web page that counts how many times the page has been viewed, and it's completely anonymous. At the end of playback the plug-in can also show a banner in the video area, which it pulls down from our webserver. Again, it's completely anonymous and we just count how many banners we've displayed so that we know roughly how many people have seen them. Right now the banner says "Got DivX?", but in future we might put news about new products there, links to tutorials on DivX, or even special discounts on our other packages, movie deals, and links to new trailers. To this day, we have never advertised a third-party product in our software and we do not bundle any third-party adware components.Each time someone goes through the license agreement, spots something about "marketing" and then jumps up and down screaming "SPYWARE!" with no justification it's increadibly frustrating for us when we don't even have to mention this in the license at all - we do it to be upfront and honest with you, unlike other products that actually do contain real spyware.Maybe it's just not a good thing to be honest with your customers these days?----------------------------------------There is NO SPYWARE in the plug-in.Scroll up a page to the long post I wrote about your previous comment. Seriously, we try to be honest with our users about the fact that we do simple things like count total installations and all we get is "spyware! spyware!" from people who skim the EULA and don't actually know what they're talking about.Here's some news for you: virtually all software sends information back to the authors in one way or another. Even the might Firefox does things like checking for updates, which can be used to know how many copies of Firefox are out there in the field.We explicitly tell you that we do similar things to be honest and forthright, so that you don't have to worry about your privacy with DivX software. Stop being an ass. Seriously.I advise anyone who is concerned about spyware or the EULA to scroll up and read my previous post.Peace.--------------------Maybe you should find something better to do with your day? :)
diggaddictMar 22, 2006
Now if only we could find heaps of people to convince Leo Leporte that H.264 is not ready for video podcasts yet, everytime I mention XVID/DIVX on the TWIT podcast forum I get flamed and told that H.264 is the 'best' format now for their video casts - WHAT THE?At least the guys on Diggnation have the sense to use XVID for their videocasts so I can watch it on my networked hardware player in my home theatre.