Divx/Xvid players and audio

[maxpower2078]

I have been reading about the stand alone home players for divx and hopefully xvid and all the talk is if they will actually play xvid, which is a very valid question. My question is about the audio, there are so many different audio codecs that people have used out there where there is only a small handful of video codecs that have been used and xvid/divx probably make up 90% or more. this machine http://www.neustonusa.com/productinfo.htm lists that it plays xvid but for audio, this is what it lists

Audio Decoding

MPEG-1 Layers 1 & 2
MPEG-2 Audio Layer
MP3 & VBR
Ogg Vorbis
AC3
PCM Wav

I know that won't cover it all, I was hoping they would be using some sort of hardware decoding to do the audio instead of the correct codec so that it would be more compatible.

[Sulik]

That's actually quite an extensive choice of audio support, the only missing one would be AAC.

The 'standard' (90%) for DivX/Xvid audio is MPEG1 Layer 3 (MP3). That's the recommended format if you want the maximum portability (think handhelds etc).

[RabidDog]

! would say if it does mp3 and ac3 then youve got about 98% coverage. mp2 is nice for R2 videos and Ogg vorbis is also good to have. regarding xvid playing I havent come across any xvid that wont play ... so again I think its a tiny few that you have to worry about.