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- DigitAl56K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2worbd - 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? - MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1lol
It cracks me up how picky some of you are. No, it may not be friggin absolutely 100% perfect STREAMING high def, but it's damn close and it looks AWESOME.
The point of all this for me, is that the days of crappy, artifact filled web video are almost gone. I'm really stoked to see where video goes this year. - phobos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1this looks awesome, i threw up a cartoon to test it out. its a cartoon thats expired and in public domain so its all good, feel free to watch it here: http://ddgeek.com/movie-of-the-week-divx-stream/
- phobos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1dodger2020, i dont know where your getting your information but this little cartoon IS under the public domain liscence according to archive.org.
http://ddgeek.com/movie-of-the-week-divx-stream/
1943 Director: Robert Clampett License: Public Domain Additional: Producer: Leon Schlesinger
Production Company: Warner Brothers & Vitaphone Corporation
Audio/Visual: sound, color
Keywords: bugs bunny; merrie melodies; falling hare - nathanchase, on 05/06/2009, -0/+1It took about 45 seconds to buffer the Shark Tale video on my cable connection. Most customers won't wait that long.
a 480p QT stream looks better to me than the DIVX stream. - DigitAl56K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1We actually put a fix into beta 2 so that the plug-in should work under Firefox in non-admin mode. Be sure you have beta 2 installed, not just beta 1.
As far as "poor execution" goes, please remember that this is a beta, and only the second beta at that ;) - DigitAl56K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0There 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. - UrbenLegend, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Low system requirements? I know that DivX usually takes up less CPU power than H.264, but can this thing play on a PIII 600 Mhz?
- jasonwc, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The video looks good but certainly can't compare with Apple's H.264 implementation. While h.264 uses more resources it's much more detailed. Even on a 2.4 ghz P4 with 256 MB RAM I was able to play apple's 720p trailers without skipping in VLC.
Compare the Sharktale trailer to Apple's 720p trailer for Ice Age 2. If you look closely you can see blurring in the background of the restaurant as the trailer starts- it just doesn't have the incredible clarity and sharpness of Apple's trailers. The 720p and 1080p Ice Age 2 trailers have a "wow" factor that the Shark Tale trailer doesn't have, probably due to the superiority of H.264 and the fact that Apple uses 6 mbit/sec for 720p video rather than the 3.5 mbit/sec of this DivX trailer (Used Quicktime to get video bitrate for Ice Age 2 trailer and Gspot to get the bitrate for Shark Tale).
Compare for yourself: http://www.apple.com/trailers/fox/ice_age_2/hd/
If you're on Windows, don't bother using Quicktime. It's horribly slow for decoding H.264. Use VLC or Mplayer instead. - laffytaf, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0wow!
- foxhoundadmin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0OMG! I know I'm not the only one not running Windows in an Administrator account. For all the people on digg who think they're so 1337, they don't know ***** about maintaining Windows XP!
For this plugin to work you have to use IE in an Administrator account, or use the runas command with other browsers. Good idea, poor execution. - phobos, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0shark tale hd trailer buffered for only a few seconds and ran for the most part without problems, whereas on my amd64 it buffered for about a minute. im using a comcast cable line which is fairly fast .
i would be interested in knowing if the bufferrring and all around slow load may be due to the fact i was using an amd processor. question: is the buffer time on avg longer for amd processors than intel? - BSherrod, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0looks great on my 3.0 P4HT with 512mb, do y'all know a good free site that cold host a couple of divx videos or at least an inexpensive one.thanks in advance.
- InvisionUK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"And SPYWARE..."
You have proof of this accusation, I assume? - fa_pa, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how is that "HIGH DEFINITION" with only 128kbs MP3 audio?
also who needs a stupid plugin just use mplayer... - Dabellah, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I love Divx...
- brucebeh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Actually, for those bitching about file size and bad compression.
A 720p h.264 2 minute video is about 100mb, the HD Divx 2 minute video is 60mb...
Thats 40mb difference in JUST a 2 minute video, for an entire movie of say 2 hours.. that's 2.4GB difference in a HD movie of 2 hours.
The quality in both is pretty much the same, to be honest, Divx HD streaming beats H.264 streaming because of the smaller file size and still great amazing quality.
Oh yeah, and full screen video without paying $$$ (with official software anyways) - Psydad, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Tried it, I think it is very sweet. (AMD +3200 w/1.25GB ram, ATI Mob Radion 9600 on a DSL Line) Sweet. Now we need content providers backing it - CNN or CBS or PBS or whatever. I'd love to get rid of QT, RM and the like. Sweet ++Digg!
- elev8, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Pfft. The high-definition sample is that of a cartoon. Although it looks decent, it hardly represents real world performance. Real movies (not CG) have substantially more detail and would almost certainly look much worse.
- InvisionUK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Jesus, go easy on it. Who gives a monkey's if it's not 1080p? The buffering is next to none (for me anyway) and it's still one of the better streaming video technologies I've seen.
Definite digg. I was amazed to find out that the Shark Tale vid is 5.1 encoded too! - brucebeh, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0LINKS:
Download Browser Plug-In:
http://download.divx.com/labs/DivXBrowserPluginInstaller.exe
High Definition Shark Tale Trailer:
http://download.divx.com/BrowserPlugInBeta2/BrowserPlugIn_Beta2_Sample4.html - rolypolyman, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Gateway 2000 386SX, 4 MB, running Windows for Workgroups 3.11... awesome! It just rendered the first frame of Shark Tale and it looks sweet. The second frame ought to be done in about an hour... I'll let you know how that looks later.
- rc_collins, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0how is 1.8ghz low requirments?
most people still have sub 1ghz machines, so try again...
--dan - dpl_, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Looks incredible! Hope to see more HD content in the future.
- MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0
lol I'm on cable and the video started playing after a few seconds. My Road Runner cable didnt download a 60mb file in that short time. - DigitAl56K, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0UrbenLegend, you can probably play the non-HD clips on a PIII 600Mhz machine.
- Cryptecks, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I get less than a second for each step of the setup and no rebuffering. AMD 64 3000+, only 512mb RAM (rest fried, managed to save this). This technology is amazing no matter how 'far' from HD it is. I hope it gets exposure and gets more widespread.
- number8888, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0It's definition not streaming. The buffering alone takes over two minutes thru my plain cable line.
- tortan, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0running a celeron 2.6 and 256 of ram, works fine.
- AttroPheed, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0that's one slick plugin. It'd be sweet if it supported QT and WMV. their ***** is clunky.
- joeljkp, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I really hope this is not what Google chooses for its videos. There's no official DivX 6 client for Linux, and mplayer and other hacks are basically illegal in Western countries.
Oh, I long for the day Ogg Theora gets this kind of capability... - h3adstr0ng, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Awesome, works perfect wit firefox 1.5 and if this is how Google Videos are gonna be, i heart google.
- Headhunter, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Very impressive, unfortunately it crashes my Firefox 1.0.7 after every video.
- AngryGoldfish, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0that sharks tale one is amazing.
- catchneyez, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Well, it totally crashed my computer the first time I tried. Just locked it completely up. Let's restart and try again.
- ahmerhussain, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0VLC is basically under attack by Europe because it PLAYS EVERYTHING!!!
- aznboi04k, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0they need one to update their damn hd gallery. this is the reason why h.264 is better.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0That was beautiful! I had a 5 second buffer time. Thats great. Excellent video quality, I think gamespot should pick this up.
- Erroneus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Ye pretty nice and used about 320 KB/s, which is pretty good for the quality :)
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0the shard tale HD only took about 10 seconds to buffer, and looked GREAT on my HP Laptop, that has HD/Widescreen. And it worked flawlessy in firefox with no lag at all. this is definatly one of the best streaming technologies!
- FrothyByte, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Did anyone try saving the .avi then playing it in windows media player?
Put the plug-in window next to media player and there is a huge difference in color. Media player just looked washed out and not nearly as sharp.
The bandwidth it would take on a large scale would be tremendous though. The HD trailer is like 62MB. - teamparadox, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0This is pretty damn good quality and it loads really fast too. I dont think its quite high def, it doesnt compare to the apple.com 720p trailers but its really close. Since it loads so quickly I figure they can easily up the bitrate a bit and make this codec #1 for streaming video.
- gauntalus, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I'm pretty sure it didn't actually stream. Just buffered the entire vid and then played. The quality was nice considereing it was playing in a browser, but I was expecting to be impressed by the compression. no digg
- GoFlyaKite, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Works Great! Thanks
- weiran, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0The software is very slick indeed, very responsive, especially compaired to Microsoft and Apple's equivilents.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Pink Panther demo is 19.5 MB AVI file. 20 MB is not so bad.
- docbaily, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Wow, I'm very impressed with the video quality.
- silentauthority, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Right click + full screen = beautiful
- Bootes, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0I like it. Played almost instantly, but 720P Quicktime also goes right away. Both also play perfectly fine on my 2.4ghz P4 with 769mb of ram.
- InvisionUK, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0"VLC is basically under attack by Europe because it PLAYS EVERYTHING!!!"
By Europe? You make it sound like VLC isn't a European application, and was made in the land of the free (which Europe is getting further and further away from).
Anyway, not by Europe, but by the French. The UK still want free software you know.
And yes, we need an edit button. Also, ignore me, I'm having a ratty moment. -
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