Screw DivXNetworks. XviD owns you.

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NuclearFusi0n

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XviD is an open source MPEG-4 codec that is fully compliant with MPEG-4 standards. As soon as B-frame support is added to XviD, it shall kick the <> out of DivX. :D It's like LAME for the video scene. ;)

XviD owns you.
http://www.xvid.org/

:D

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NuclearFusi0n

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The XviD playback filter is totally MPEG-4 compliant. It will play back DivX 4 and 5 movies, but DivX 3 movies wont be played with the XviD playback filter. Just install DivX 3 for DivX 3 content, and XviD for everything else :)
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Mrburns2007

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Now why can't they pick a better name for there codec ?

All these cryptic names are annoying...
 
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NuclearFusi0n

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Originally posted by: jthsmak
It doesn't support SMP does it? I get mad speed with Divx 5 and my athlons.
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The only reason you get fast speeds with DivX 5 and duallies is because one proc is decoding the MPEG-2 stream (frameserving), and the other is encoding with DivX
That can be done with XviD. :)
 
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Karaethon1

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Wow! Such a clever naming convention...

Maybe the new codec for MPEG-5 will be cleverly named DivXviD...

Oh well, I'll probably have to download it to view the newly encoded movies anyway, so I shouldn't complain too much.
 
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Chu

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>> As soon as B-frame support is added to XviD

And therin lies the problem. 99% of my encoding is animation, for which B frames make a HUGE difference. B-frames in XVid have been just around the corner for 5 months now, when are they finally going in !?

-Chu
 
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Chu

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>> Maybe the new codec for MPEG-5 will be cleverly named DivXviD...

If you are seriously interested in compression, check out the book "An Introduction to Data Compression" by some indian guy whose name starts with K (sorry, too lazy to look it up right now). There are a couple of copies on ILL, one of which will be in my possession in two weeks :) Anyways, to make a long story short, as it stands now, IF there will be a mpeg-5 standard, it will mainly be focusing on the wrapper, not the actuial compression. We are starting to hit some serious walls in advancing lossy video/audio compression, which there is still a ton of work to be done with the wrapper. Ask anyone whose had to produce a DVD or mess around with subtitles and multiple audio tracks in MP4's and you will get quite an earful . . .

-Chu
 
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Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n1
Originally posted by: yakko
I will have to check it out. Maybe I will encode all my pR0n with it.
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Pr0n sure does have a huge effect on technology :)
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I read somewhere that that is actually true. PC Magazine or something? The Porn industry was the first on the web with all the transaction stuff right?
 
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Chu

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>> So Quicktime 6, then?

Sorta funny you mention that. The mpeg4 wrapper essentially is quicktime. Apple's proposal was the one that the standard is based on.

-Chu
 
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Originally posted by: dcdomain
Originally posted by: NuclearFusi0n1
Originally posted by: yakko
I will have to check it out. Maybe I will encode all my pR0n with it.
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Pr0n sure does have a huge effect on technology :)
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I read somewhere that that is actually true. PC Magazine or something? The Porn industry was the first on the web with all the transaction stuff right?
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pr0n has been the first (or sometimes second) application of almost every new media ever created.
 
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