DiVX on PS2 moving forward!?

[basta61]

Hi!

I have seen alot of posts with people asking if the ps2 can be modifyed so that it can play divx movies..

Almost on every post the same awnser is given.. It's coming/ i'm working on it and so on..

But really the only serious thing i have seen is Da Video
http://www.tuuk.demon.co.uk/
But the site hasn't been updated is months?!

If somebody that works on the problem sees this post plz anwser and give like a status report..
For all you other folks, have you seen anything except post awnsers??

thx.. /Basta

[Khizhiy]

Talking about DivX, I heard that Chinese BBK company has made a DVD player upgradable to meet MPEG-4 standards. Anyway, DivX is coming. But, I cannot tell anything about the quality of BBK products.

[vitualis]

@basta61: probable hoax

@Khizhiy: don't know the details about that but from a purely technical standpoint, it is VERY VERY unlikely that a DVD player can be firmware upgraded to play DivX or even MPEG-4. MPEG-4 is different enough from MPEG-2 to require either a general purpose processor to decoded (e.g., a PC CPU -- which is expensive and won't be done) or another specialised decoding chip.

The only way that a player can decoded MPEG-4 is if it had that ability to begin with.

Regards.