<strong>Get 3ivx D4 Decoder and DivX Doctor from <a href="http://www.3ivx.com"; target="_blank">3ivx.com</a>. That seems to be the best solution.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Forget all the tinkering and codecs that don't play nice together and just get the <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=14738&db=mac"; target="_blank">VideoLAN</a> player. It works with all DivX formats, even those pesky MP42 files that can only be played in OS 9. It also plays DVDs as well as MPEG-2 VOB and M2V files which was previously impossible to do on a Mac. Quicktime 6 breaks it so that you must run in thousands of colors but that should be fixed soon. This is definitely one to watch
Divx always worked. Just not as well as windows obviously. Since encoders come in far and wide especially in a nonstandard world of divx.
For now I would say a good 97% works on macs with various tricks attached.
Divx.com, ffmpeg, 3divx, all do most of it with the exception of M$ mpeg4v62(1). But 2 days ago, that was released for osx. that accounts for 99% of the video.
the audio, are mostly bugged. that's a small problem. WMA, through various ways, is annoying but fixable. qt6 adds another component there..though rarely seen.
VideoLan is BUGGY, with a Capital B. after all it's Apha. Who ever recommends it, I seriously say otherwise. It's a hit-miss thing, and many times it's better off spending an extra 1 minute DivxDoctoring it, then have it messed up at any time.
VideoLan is a good 70% I'll say.
Side note, having QT pro helps achieve that 97%. There are just some that are errored naturally and requires the "extract track" and "add scaled" option.
Divx is a underground thing. From the legal to the semi-legal to the illegal. If you're interested you'll find it, if not you'll ignore it. It's not elite or anything.
If you want to even try to guess the amount of Divx content there are, it's staggering. And, no, it's not all just illegal stuff. My guess a good 60% of it is on the grey area of law.
DivX is hardly a standard, it's a glommed together mess...here's hoping that as mpeg 4 gains momentum, we'll stop seeing the million different iterations of DivX.
avi2mov is simply a recoding of the audio track to fix the mp3 bug. It does NOTHING else. no mpg, nothing.
It depends what you mean by speed. Divx has always been a cpu sucker. Especially with post processing, which people might not know they have turned it on. This is the same for PCs as it does for Macs. It's not a software thing.
It depends what you watch. Beautiful 800x600 million color HQ divx is going to take a G4 400+
lower 400x300 or 380x240 on rev B iMacs are quite capable. (maybe even lower models)
Anything in the 500 range you should rarely have proformace problems.
There is nothing to bash here, divx is what it is.
And before you say mpeg and mov is better, it's because the videocard is doing a good portion of the work. If you ever read your video card, it will say acceration for "mpeg1 mpeg2, quicktime movie" etc.
Ever wonder why Rage pro users have been bitching on OSX, this is why.
Xidus, trying not to take this a bit too far, but you are spreading majorly false information. Perhaps you might want to do more research before giving others this kind of advice.
That's what I imagine. Like VHS, DiVX seems to be overwhelming better and more coherent standards because so many people want their bootlegged movies and porn. I've yet to come across a substantial amount of DiVX, and what I have come across is just huge sections of ripped movie DVDs. As much as I think RIAA and others are cheating consumers, I have not the desire nor the patience to deal with DiVX either.
Porn is actually mostly LEGAL. For some reason people like to "share" their home movies more then I care to know.
Divx is a format(well formats...) There's nothing stopping it from going one way or the other.
For whatever reason's people use to use divx, people who point to porn so readily, what does that say about their minds...
Same could be said for mp4, which so far tested way better.
I have a large amount of divx content. Most of which is Anime, Music video's, public made spoofs and yes some bootleg stuff. But notice, about 90% of that are legal enough for the general public.
<strong>Ahhh, my people, is this a thinly veiled porn thread I see? <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
Can't speak for the rest but I download music videos and they are almost always either avi (DivX) or m2v (MPEG2) format. Now we can play both. Wish I could find more on IRC but the servers are mostly duplicates of the same songs.
While bootleg/porn is an issue, divx was not invented for that purpose, nor is any other video compression format.
And in my experience/opinion, you're wrong. The Anime realm, by far a very large portion of it has embraced divx(and raised it popularity). Collectors and non-US residents also reside a large percent of this "so called market". Simpsons, Sienfield and popular TV series have been stored onto divx format in large quanties.
Music videos, etc.. you get the picture. It's very narrow and degrading to put the "market" of divx on porn and bootleg. It may be an issue, but it's indirectly degrading a whole community of people by being slightly prejudice don't you think?
Back on track.
Converting to mpeg is fine as long as your put it at a quality equal to the orginal source. Beware it takes no little amount of cpu time. Also you do understand it will be much larger file.
Unless you have something planned for it being mpeg, it's better to just play it as divx, or use mp4.
<strong>While bootleg/porn is an issue, divx was not invented for that purpose, nor is any other video compression format.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Not saying it was, just saying it has historically helped this and other formats to decome de facto standards.
[quote]<strong>And in my experience/opinion, you're wrong. The Anime realm, by far a very large portion of it has embraced divx(and raised it popularity). Collectors and non-US residents also reside a large percent of this "so called market". Simpsons, Sienfield and popular TV series have been stored onto divx format in large quanties.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'm not making moral platitudes about a file format, just trying to understand why it's so popular considering it's such a pain the ass to deal with. But as far as those Simpsons and Seinfeld episodes and the like, are those legal releases?
In the end, the thing that gets me is how much trouble everyone on any platform has to go through to play this stuff. That's my beef. Sorry if I helped derail the thread with this talk about porn. <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />
Comments
<strong>Do DivXs work in OSX yet?
</strong><hr></blockquote>
<a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=14738&db=mac"; target="_blank">Yes.</a>
[quote]Originally posted by preston:
<strong>Then I would just need Kazaa to download them
</strong><hr></blockquote>
<a href="http://elwww.cc.purdue.edu/~mthole/neo/index.html"; target="_blank">Kazaa.</a>
-DisgruntledQS733Owner
[ 06-11-2002: Message edited by: DisgruntledQS733Owner ]</p>
<strong>Get 3ivx D4 Decoder and DivX Doctor from <a href="http://www.3ivx.com"; target="_blank">3ivx.com</a>. That seems to be the best solution.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Forget all the tinkering and codecs that don't play nice together and just get the <a href="http://www.versiontracker.com/moreinfo.fcgi?id=14738&db=mac"; target="_blank">VideoLAN</a> player. It works with all DivX formats, even those pesky MP42 files that can only be played in OS 9. It also plays DVDs as well as MPEG-2 VOB and M2V files which was previously impossible to do on a Mac. Quicktime 6 breaks it so that you must run in thousands of colors but that should be fixed soon. This is definitely one to watch
[ 06-11-2002: Message edited by: apple.otaku ]</p>
<strong>Where is all this DiXV content? What are people watching?</strong><hr></blockquote>
<img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" />
For now I would say a good 97% works on macs with various tricks attached.
Divx.com, ffmpeg, 3divx, all do most of it with the exception of M$ mpeg4v62(1). But 2 days ago, that was released for osx. that accounts for 99% of the video.
the audio, are mostly bugged. that's a small problem. WMA, through various ways, is annoying but fixable. qt6 adds another component there..though rarely seen.
VideoLan is BUGGY, with a Capital B. after all it's Apha. Who ever recommends it, I seriously say otherwise. It's a hit-miss thing, and many times it's better off spending an extra 1 minute DivxDoctoring it, then have it messed up at any time.
VideoLan is a good 70% I'll say.
Side note, having QT pro helps achieve that 97%. There are just some that are errored naturally and requires the "extract track" and "add scaled" option.
Divx is a underground thing. From the legal to the semi-legal to the illegal. If you're interested you'll find it, if not you'll ignore it. It's not elite or anything.
If you want to even try to guess the amount of Divx content there are, it's staggering. And, no, it's not all just illegal stuff. My guess a good 60% of it is on the grey area of law.
~Kuku
[ 06-11-2002: Message edited by: Kuku ]</p>
The KaZaA on OS X is NEWS TO ME!
I'm very excited to try out all these neat new technologies...
last I heard OS X was "incompatible with the DivX standard or something stupid like that"
Pres
<strong>Where is all this DiXV content? What are people watching?</strong><hr></blockquote>
*cough* IRC *cough*
[QB]Divx always worked. Just not as well as windows obviously. Since encoders come in far and wide especially in a nonstandard world of divx.
<hr></blockquote>
so none of those peops in the new add campaign use divx...as they run everything flawlessly.
It depends what you mean by speed. Divx has always been a cpu sucker. Especially with post processing, which people might not know they have turned it on. This is the same for PCs as it does for Macs. It's not a software thing.
It depends what you watch. Beautiful 800x600 million color HQ divx is going to take a G4 400+
lower 400x300 or 380x240 on rev B iMacs are quite capable. (maybe even lower models)
Anything in the 500 range you should rarely have proformace problems.
There is nothing to bash here, divx is what it is.
And before you say mpeg and mov is better, it's because the videocard is doing a good portion of the work. If you ever read your video card, it will say acceration for "mpeg1 mpeg2, quicktime movie" etc.
Ever wonder why Rage pro users have been bitching on OSX, this is why.
Xidus, trying not to take this a bit too far, but you are spreading majorly false information. Perhaps you might want to do more research before giving others this kind of advice.
~Kuku
[ 06-12-2002: Message edited by: Kuku ]</p>
Porn addicts might feel otherwise.
Porn is actually mostly LEGAL. For some reason people like to "share" their home movies more then I care to know.
Divx is a format(well formats...) There's nothing stopping it from going one way or the other.
For whatever reason's people use to use divx, people who point to porn so readily, what does that say about their minds...
Same could be said for mp4, which so far tested way better.
I have a large amount of divx content. Most of which is Anime, Music video's, public made spoofs and yes some bootleg stuff. But notice, about 90% of that are legal enough for the general public.
~Kuku
[ 06-12-2002: Message edited by: Kuku ]
[ 06-12-2002: Message edited by: Kuku ]</p>
<strong>Ahhh, my people, is this a thinly veiled porn thread I see? <img src="graemlins/lol.gif" border="0" alt="[Laughing]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
Can't speak for the rest but I download music videos and they are almost always either avi (DivX) or m2v (MPEG2) format. Now we can play both. Wish I could find more on IRC but the servers are mostly duplicates of the same songs.
also... i've been playing divx in X since 10.0
[ 06-13-2002: Message edited by: janitor ]</p>
And in my experience/opinion, you're wrong. The Anime realm, by far a very large portion of it has embraced divx(and raised it popularity). Collectors and non-US residents also reside a large percent of this "so called market". Simpsons, Sienfield and popular TV series have been stored onto divx format in large quanties.
Music videos, etc.. you get the picture. It's very narrow and degrading to put the "market" of divx on porn and bootleg. It may be an issue, but it's indirectly degrading a whole community of people by being slightly prejudice don't you think?
Back on track.
Converting to mpeg is fine as long as your put it at a quality equal to the orginal source. Beware it takes no little amount of cpu time. Also you do understand it will be much larger file.
Unless you have something planned for it being mpeg, it's better to just play it as divx, or use mp4.
~Kuku
<strong>While bootleg/porn is an issue, divx was not invented for that purpose, nor is any other video compression format.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Not saying it was, just saying it has historically helped this and other formats to decome de facto standards.
[quote]<strong>And in my experience/opinion, you're wrong. The Anime realm, by far a very large portion of it has embraced divx(and raised it popularity). Collectors and non-US residents also reside a large percent of this "so called market". Simpsons, Sienfield and popular TV series have been stored onto divx format in large quanties.</strong><hr></blockquote>
I'm not making moral platitudes about a file format, just trying to understand why it's so popular considering it's such a pain the ass to deal with. But as far as those Simpsons and Seinfeld episodes and the like, are those legal releases?
In the end, the thing that gets me is how much trouble everyone on any platform has to go through to play this stuff. That's my beef. Sorry if I helped derail the thread with this talk about porn. <img src="graemlins/embarrassed.gif" border="0" alt="[Embarrassed]" />