Divx Dvds

[Xavier]

I mean alot , I know some things about them but want to know more .

if so email or pm me thanks .

]heres some examples to show whart im talking about :

http://pub1.ezboard.com/fdigitaldiscworldhometheater

 

[Lyzel]

Mostly pirates use this format these days. It makes it easy to convert a DVD movie into DiVX without losing alot of the quality of the movie.

 

[Xavier]

No sir , sorry im talking about a totally different animal .

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws....57&rd=1

another example of what I am talking about .

THese were distributed i dunno starting 4 years ago at circuit city , they were $5 a movie , you could watch them once for free but then had to pay $3.99 each additional time you wanted to watch this movie . You could buy unlimited viewing for $15-20 . They were dvd's but had ths extra feature .

 

[Lyzel]

I know. Too bad this format didn't last long for legitimate uses

 

[SkankinMonkey]

if you're wondering if they can be cracked to play the movie without playing you're out of luck, to date i've yet to read anything suggestion that the unlocking scheme has been cracked.

 

[Curtis]

I don't think anyone could really be bothered enough to spend time cracking the scheme - the whole system was stillborn.

 

[Xavier]

Originally posted by SkankinMonkey@Dec. 15 2002, 9:47 pm

if you're wondering if they can be cracked to play the movie without paying you're out of luck, to date i've yet to read anything suggestion that the unlocking scheme has been cracked.

I have ....a couple of years ago a guy cracked it and was putting it all over the web , I guess he was arrested but dont think he ever got into to much trouble for it , nowdays Im sure nobody cares . I also remeber seeing dvd players for pc with this crack built in and read about several different hardware and software hacks that worked , (with very good details ,) but the problem is now that DIVX = (mpeg-4 or mp4) has gained in popularity and any kind of search on engines come up ith porno sights vague detailes , codecs ect .

 

[gameboy900]

Quite honestly nobody bothers with those old Divx discs anyway. Every movie that came out on them had a DVD version as well. And any that didn't weren't worth the plastic. The format sucked donkey ass. It was so bad you couldn't even have any special features on the disc. The only redeming thing about the players is that they could play regular DVD's as well.

 

[Xavier]

They had special features , ususally you could access these for free 2 .

 

[Curtis]

There's a point - anyone know why the new Divx (MPEG 4) was given such a conflicting name?

 

[Xavier]

probabley because the sight www.divx.com had good traffic coming into it from all the people across america who bought the divx player , makes for a great traffic builder for your new product a computer player that plays movies .

 

[Xavier]

Oh also one more thing to say I dont think divx is any better than any other video format out there (mpeg avi ram vivo ), in terms of quality or compression . Just my 2 cents .

I like vivo player but it seems it never took off .

Opp it was bought out by realplayer .

 

[Curtis]

Well, Divx is mpeg (or a variant of), AVI isn't a compressor and Real Video is a different focus (streaming). On the whole though, I agree that it is no better or worse than other like formats.

What's vivo?

 

[Xavier]

Vivo Active player !!!

Very similiar to realplayer you could easy controll a video features like video quality and sound quality . I have some music videos that are 2 megs or under for three minutes, of couse, if you want good quality then the file starts getting bigger.

 

[Xavier]

Oh yeah I have the codecs and producer for it 2 !

 

[Cecilia Chen]

If im not mistaken, isn't AVI just a wrapper?

 

[Curtis]

Yep - AVI can hold data from just about any compression format.

 

[Taelon]

DivX is AFAIK a compression format in its own right now but fully compatible with the official MPEG-4 spec, which was developed out of MPEG-2. MPEG-4, if you use it correctly, does offer the exact same levels of quality as MPEG-2 but with much lower space needs. IMHO, DivX movies look fantastic, particularly with some good postprocessing applied to the image.

And then there's MPEG-7, which is something else entirely...

 

[Xavier]

Originally posted by SkankinMonkey@Dec. 15 2002, 9:47 pm

if you're wondering if they can be cracked to play the movie without playing you're out of luck, to date i've yet to read anything suggestion that the unlocking scheme has been cracked.

Anybody who knows anything that I might not contact me thanks

Well im gonna do it

 

[antime]

Originally posted by Curtis@Dec. 16 2002, 5:30 am

There's a point - anyone know why the new Divx (MPEG 4) was given such a conflicting name?

The original DivX codec (the hacked Microsoft one) was given the name "DivX ;-)" as an intended humorous reference to Circuit City's format (Xavier, you'll get better search results if you include Circuit City in your search terms). Of course very few bothered to use the real name or knew about or understood it, so when version 4 was released they dropped the smiley. (Check the Divx Owners Association for some info on the Divx format.)

DivX is an MPEG-4 implementation, the original 3.x release was a Microsoft decoder hacked so it could encode as well. After that Project Mayo was started, with the aim of producing an open-source MPEG-4 codec. This was/is also used as a base for DivX Networks' codec.