are they ever going to make a standalone dvd to play divix

[chickenhq]

you would think some one would make a dvd player that would play avi files in a regular dvd player.. just wasting cdr here converting from avi to mpg..

[matt_a_us]

i would like to know to

[mijman]

Given that the industry doesn't really produce DIVX, I can't really see it happening. A few years ago, circuit city was selling a standalone player called DIVX, along with movies, but I've been told that it wasn't the SAME DIVX as what is out now. That product failed, btw. Probably because they wanted people to pay to watch movies that they had already bought. That sort of thing rubs people the wrong way.

[matt_a_us]

is there any way u can play divx or avi onto your tv?

[mijman]

You'd need to hook up your computer to the TV with a video out card.

[leebo]

Here in California, there's an electronics store called Fry's. Each week they have a "bare bones" computer on sale for like $99 to $199.
If you have some old computer parts lying around (ram, etc.), you can add them and get the cheapest display card with video out.

I'm sure you can find the same through the Internet. It'd be like buying a medium priced DVD player.

[Nerk01]

A company not to long ago (week or two) announced they had licensed the Divx codec and intended to make a card that could do hardware decoding of mpeg1/2 and divx. If they are smart they'll design a version to go into DVD players.

[Romper]

Check out Sigma Designs home page (www.sigmadesigns.com)

The are about to release the Xcard (I think) which is basically a newer version of the H+ but with hardware support for DivX.

Who knows, STB's may be next.

[g0dZpr0fi7]

Umm... there is a set top DivX player.
Project Mayo has ported their PocketPC DivX Player to Dreamcast.
So far they cant get much more than VCD resolutions at bitrates not much higher than 500.
The video looks as good or better than well done VCD and at these bitrates you can get a lot of video on a cd.
It probably wont ever be able to play the hig res movies we all have downloaded and burned but it's still cool.

[RoopeT]

The are about to release the Xcard (I think) which is basically a newer version of the H+ but with hardware support for DivX.

It doesn't say that DivX is supported but MPEG 4 is supported

[Nerk01]

If you truly read the news release they liscensed the mpeg 4 from DivX, so which version of mpeg 4 do you think they liscensed?

(p.s. just in case you can't figure it out on your own it's DivX )

[RoopeT]

(p.s. just in case you can't figure it out on your own it's DivX )

Yeah, and which versions are supported? There's not a single line anywhere (in DivX networks pages) mentioning DivX 3.11, meaning that it's probably not supported. DivX 4.xx is supported, though.[/quote]

[corrupt]

i read a really detailed piece on divx on some site explaing the whole history and why the players got discontinued.
anybody know what i'm talking about and where it is. whoever wrote it is extremely well informed and it'll answer nearly all of these type of "why isn't there a stand alone divx player" questions.

[lusid]

Let's try not to confuse the DivX mpeg4 codec with the failed dvd rental scheme from circuit city (also called Divx).

The old set top DVD players with Divx support played specially encrypted discs by calling a central server to get authorization to decode the disc based on the owner's account status, and billed them per use. In this case Divx was an encrypted dvd format used to enforce their "pay per play" scheme.

The Divx of today is an Mpeg-4 codec, and one of the big reasons it's not supported in set top DVD players is that the Movie industry has a lot of control over what DVD player manufacturers are able to do. To manufacture a dvd player, you need a CSS license. They can withold that license at their discretion, so if you want the license you have to do things their way.

On the other hand, M$ is pushing the manufacturer's of the decoder chips to support decoding of Windows Media streams, and since that is also an Mpeg-4 variant things could get interesting. Their intent seems to be to enable video on demand services, (based on M$ technology of course) but with firmware hackers getting more and more skilled as time goes on there are always possibilities.

[vcd4me]

o.k. ieebo let me get this strait are you saying that if I have an old computer and add this x card I can then take a divx movie(downloaded or otherwise) burn it without converting it just the way it is and it will play like a stand alone dvd player?Thanks in advance vcd4me

[OptimusPrime22]

Basically yes. This new X-Card is sounding like a sweet deal and I'm sure after a while the price will drop even cheaper. Look at how the MP3s have gone big time with car stereos that will play the data files now. Soon enough, there will be DVD players that play the Divx files as well.

[MythSpell]

Another possibility could be that one of these rogue companies like Apex (who has refused to pay the licensing fees to Philips for the use of the DVD patent) would also not care about the potential fight from the movie industry over including DivX in their players. Or since they already have flashable players, they could just expand that ability so that users could add the DivX codec to it themselves.

[91BRAVO]

I'm having trouble with the quote feature right now ...

mijman said:
"Given that the industry doesn't really produce DIVX, I can't really see it happening. A few years ago, circuit city was selling a standalone player called DIVX, along with movies, but I've been told that it wasn't the SAME DIVX as what is out now. That product failed, btw. Probably because they wanted people to pay to watch movies that they had already bought. That sort of thing rubs people the wrong way"

The downfall of Circuit City's DIVX was Patent infringement

MythSpell said:
"...one of these rogue companies like Apex (who has refused to pay the licensing fees to Philips for the use of the DVD patent) ..."

I believe the patent is RCA's. I could be wrong but a friend of mine is a patient Lawyer for RCA and he was the one who brought down Circuit City for their DIVX machines.

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[91BRAVO]

I'm having trouble with the quote feature right now ...

mijman said:
"Given that the industry doesn't really produce DIVX, I can't really see it happening. A few years ago, circuit city was selling a standalone player called DIVX, along with movies, but I've been told that it wasn't the SAME DIVX as what is out now. That product failed, btw. Probably because they wanted people to pay to watch movies that they had already bought. That sort of thing rubs people the wrong way"

The downfall of Circuit City's DIVX was Patent infringement

MythSpell said:
"...one of these rogue companies like Apex (who has refused to pay the licensing fees to Philips for the use of the DVD patent) ..."

I believe the patent is RCA's. I could be wrong but a friend of mine is a patient Lawyer for RCA and he was the one who brought down Circuit City for their DIVX machines.