playing original retail divx discs

[divxer]

I have some original retail divx discs, they look exactly like dvd's except that they are in divx format, but i dont have a standalone divx player, so im wondering if there is a program out there that i can use, so that i can watch the discs on my computer? I already tried to download some divx players and the codec but they dont have divx cd support.

[karter74]

First off, I have never heard of "retail" DiVX cd's, where did u get them?? Secondly, first get the divx codec from http://www.divx-digest.com and in the divx4 codec a player is included. A divx file is only an .avi compressed with a special codec, there's nothing special about having them on a cd, its just an avi file

[alkieman]

DIVX was a variation on DVD. It was a locked format that allowed a few plays before your player would refuse to play it again. You had to pay a small fee to unlock it for another few plays. It was only available for a few months through Circuit City in the US and never made it anywhere else in the world. It thankfully died a very quick death. DIVX discs cannot be played back on any current model DVD player, only on the few DIVX DVD players that existed a couple of years ago.

It has absolutely nothing to do with the DIVX codec for AVI files currently proving popular.

[Greg12]

are u refering to the failed DIVX of Circut City or the hack of MS MPEG4.


I think he means the Circut City DIVX.

[divxer]

i dont know where i got them becasue my uncle gave it to me. When i explore these discs they are just like dvd's. They have .vob files. I tried to play them on windvd but a screen shows up and says that the dvd player cannot support the disc.

[adam]

Your out of luck. Divx officially went defunct a number of months ago. The vobs on the disk are encrypted but unlike dvds, the code isnt on the disk. When played on a divx standalone the player would log into a server and get the code to decrypt the file. Now that the format is defunct there is no way to get that code. The disks might still have a certain number of plays left on them but you'll still need a standalone divx player to play them.

Give up on using your computer to either watch or rip those disks. As far as I can tell, divx is the only major format to never have been cracked.

The divx codec was named after the failed divx format as a joke, hence the confusion.