honestly, who here ever paid for the DivX player?! I'm surprised about the deal. The codec is popular, but I always say whoever paid for it has a sad story to tell.
Actually, this "old crappy technology" is actually "modern good technology". DivX has had H.264 support for a while now in the form of DivX Plus. DivX Plus has been supporting Matroska, or the MKV container format, which is a true successor to AVI. If anything, DivX is pushing newer technology for quite a while. My guess is DivX Plus is having a very slow adoption rate for numerous reasons. It could be that DivX's glory days are over and everybody knows this. It could be that DivX has been losing lots of money. It could be that nobody wants to build DivX Plus into their hardware when most of what DivX Plus offers already exists (AVC/AAC).If anything, the internet is done shifting gears to H.264 and will be preparing its shift to WebM. It helps to know something before spewing inaccuracies.
Cavefish, here's something else you may not know:Disney spelled backwards is Yensid, the name of the powerful sorcerer in the segment The Sorcerer's Apprentice, from Disney's 1940 film Fantasia...
daridaveJun 2, 2010
honestly, who here ever paid for the DivX player?! I'm surprised about the deal. The codec is popular, but I always say whoever paid for it has a sad story to tell.
neilmJun 2, 2010
Actually, this "old crappy technology" is actually "modern good technology". DivX has had H.264 support for a while now in the form of DivX Plus. DivX Plus has been supporting Matroska, or the MKV container format, which is a true successor to AVI. If anything, DivX is pushing newer technology for quite a while. My guess is DivX Plus is having a very slow adoption rate for numerous reasons. It could be that DivX's glory days are over and everybody knows this. It could be that DivX has been losing lots of money. It could be that nobody wants to build DivX Plus into their hardware when most of what DivX Plus offers already exists (AVC/AAC).If anything, the internet is done shifting gears to H.264 and will be preparing its shift to WebM. It helps to know something before spewing inaccuracies.
andrewdbJun 2, 2010
Cavefish, here's something else you may not know:Disney spelled backwards is Yensid, the name of the powerful sorcerer in the segment The Sorcerer's Apprentice, from Disney's 1940 film Fantasia...
andrewdbJun 2, 2010
No, the beast with two backs is BP and Dick Cheney.
fuzzynyankoJun 2, 2010
I've seen cases where an embedded device wants MPEG-4 support, so they license out DivX software to do so, and the PS3 is one of those cases
ubertechgeekJun 2, 2010
Sonic Solutions and DivX is now (drum roll)Sonic X ....OK someone had to say it. But come on how cool would that really be.Damm trademarks.
Closed AccountJun 2, 2010
Yes, originally, it was a competing format to DVD and backed by Circuit City...go figure.
antdudeJun 3, 2010
This is heavy.