is it possible to play divx movies in Dreamcast?

[mAdD INDIAN]

I remember a while back (a year maybe) there were plans to make a divx player for the dreamcast. I was wondering if that plan has finally come to fruition?

I'd like to play a few movies on the Dreamcast, i believe it is powerful enough to do the job.

 

[Adul]

yeah it is. there is a player for it out on the net somewhere. my friend use to have it. I think he did at least or was it the vcd player...

 

[Evadman]

yes. I have the player. It is free. No I will not give it to you 😛

It plays most everything kinda choppy.

 

[N8Magic]

I think I got the player I tried out from DCCopyWorld.com

However, it would get pretty choppy trying to play some higher quality files. Your mileage may vary though.

 

[PCMarine]

the divx player for dreamcast sucks as it is very choppy and can only play videos of a max res of like 320x240 or something.

 

[oog]

There was one called DCDivX. The official page is www.dcdivx.com. I think it does only support limited resolution as PCMarine mentioned.

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

Originally posted by: PCMarine
the divx player for dreamcast sucks as it is very choppy and can only play videos of a max res of like 320x240 or something.

oh ok. so they haven't optimized it for DC hardware I guess. Ah well, sucks. I was really hoping on playing some DivX movies (got some awesome old Bruce Lee films) on the tv.

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: mAdD INDIAN

Originally posted by: PCMarine
the divx player for dreamcast sucks as it is very choppy and can only play videos of a max res of like 320x240 or something.

oh ok. so they haven't optimized it for DC hardware I guess. Ah well, sucks. I was really hoping on playing some DivX movies (got some awesome old Bruce Lee films) on the tv.

I bought a DVD player that plays DivX movies. It was only $30 @ sears. (reconditioned)

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: mAdD INDIAN

Originally posted by: PCMarine
the divx player for dreamcast sucks as it is very choppy and can only play videos of a max res of like 320x240 or something.

oh ok. so they haven't optimized it for DC hardware I guess. Ah well, sucks. I was really hoping on playing some DivX movies (got some awesome old Bruce Lee films) on the tv.

I bought a DVD player that plays DivX movies. It was only $30 @ sears. (reconditioned)

wtf? They have that now???

 

[xcript]

If you re-encode the media correctly it'll play quite nicely on the dreamcast with DCDivX.

There's a decent guide for this here.

The audio quality is more of a problem than the video. It's not especially bad though.

Later.. :beer:

 

[0roo0roo]

don't think it has the horsepower. just get a xbox.

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
don't think it has the horsepower. just get a xbox.

XBOX cost money. I'm trying to see if I can do it for free. If not, I just won't watch it on TV..simple as that 🙂

xscript: thanks for the link!! Much appreciated!

 

[Evadman]

Originally posted by: mAdD INDIAN

Originally posted by: Evadman
I bought a DVD player that plays DivX movies. It was only $30 @ sears. (reconditioned)

wtf? They have that now???

my bad, I just looked it plays raw files, but not divx. Sorry to get your hopes up.

 

[mAdD INDIAN]

Originally posted by: Evadman

Originally posted by: mAdD INDIAN

Originally posted by: Evadman
I bought a DVD player that plays DivX movies. It was only $30 @ sears. (reconditioned)

wtf? They have that now???

my bad, I just looked it plays raw files, but not divx. Sorry to get your hopes up.

NOOOOOOOOESS!! USELESS! You have ruined me...PILLAGED and RUINED ME!! 😛 😀

What kind of raw files?? VOBs?

 

[Justin218]

it's not worth the time, you'll have to reencode and everything...

 

[kindest]

the xbox media player plays divx flawlessly
looks as good as dvdr