What DivX decoder do you use?

TheRyuu

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ffdshow some times and whatever VLC uses if I happen to be using VLC (which in that case I think it's the Libavcodec), actually in both cases even though one is a direct show filter they both use the Libavcodec AFAIK.
 

StopSign

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Yes they're both libavcodec but FFDShow is updated daily and often times the libavcodec is updated every week or so. Can't say that about VLC.
 
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Originally posted by: StopSign
Yes they're both libavcodec but FFDShow is updated daily and often times the libavcodec is updated every week or so. Can't say that about VLC.

I thought FFDShow is dead... where do I get the one that updates almost daily now?
 

duragezic

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Originally posted by: DLeRium
Originally posted by: StopSign
Yes they're both libavcodec but FFDShow is updated daily and often times the libavcodec is updated every week or so. Can't say that about VLC.

I thought FFDShow is dead... where do I get the one that updates almost daily now?
Indeed, all this time I was using one of the official ones from 2002 or the 2004 alpha. Until I had a h264 HD video I wanted to test out and realized it wasn't an option in those versions.

So I got a Dec 2006 one from ffdshow tryouts

There is nightly builds there as well, as you can see.
 

itachi

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check out xvid.. it's the open source equivalent of divx and is the library used by ffdshow to decode divx files.
 

StopSign

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Originally posted by: DLeRium
Originally posted by: StopSign
Yes they're both libavcodec but FFDShow is updated daily and often times the libavcodec is updated every week or so. Can't say that about VLC.

I thought FFDShow is dead... where do I get the one that updates almost daily now?
Oh ho ho, FFDShow is definitely NOT dead. Check out Afterdawn or Freecodecs for all the new builds. The SourceForge project is dead but right now it's being carried out by guys on Doom9.

Originally posted by: itachi
check out xvid.. it's the open source equivalent of divx and is the library used by ffdshow to decode divx files.
No, it's an option in FFDShow. The default decoder is still libavcodec and I don't see why you would decode using XviD when you can use libavcodec (which is based off of FFMpeg).