U.S. DECLARES WAR ON DIVX OR ATLEAST WE SHOULD

[TWEATTY]

what is the point of divx?........i see none, is it to save hard drive space?
please spend the $ 50 bucks and buy a new one....is it to make it small enough to share on kazaa?........ get dsl ....is it to make it fit on a cdr?......get a dvd burner.......i don't consider myself a newbie at the whole vcd/dvd process...i have several full disc cases to prove it...but they want me to put my question here......did sadam move to cyber space to hide?....anyway enough ranting.....

does any one have a lead on all in one software that will convert divx to dvd.

please spare me the following:

providing a lead that takes more than two warez to complete....

listing extended conversion provided on this site

speaking in another dialect...i don't speak nerd ...sorry

replying to the above rant

i already have the following :

moviefactory2,tmpgenc,dvd2avi,smartripper,
virtual dub, spruce up full,info edit....and to many divx/other codecs to list...

if it cant be done,because that software is not out yet ...please just say it cant be done, and i will continue with the cave man method...thanks

[Puhfista2010]

Wow, you sound frustrated. Personally I am a huge fan of DivX (and I have cable) because it provides almost DVD quality w/o the huge storage that a regular mpg requires. The thing that irritates me is Xvid. What's the point of that? All the DivX software has problems with it.

ANyway, my two cents 8)

[thefox149]

I don't make Divx and you make valid points but you get far better quality for size as opposed to mpg1 or even SVCD you can't denu that!!!...not all of us can afford DVD buners not all of us wish to produce stuff to be played on standalone players some of make divx to put on our websites in nice manageable chunks so that the masses who don't all have adsl or cable can veiew it....

700mb as opposed to 4.7g...come on there's pay off to be had there.....

I like divx but love CVD ....that is of course until I get a DVD burner

[Bob W]

I thought the big thing with DIVX was that when there are stand alone DVD players available (I think that will be soon) that then we would be able to fit a full movie onto a single CDR (cheap) and have near DVD quality. Is that not going to happen?

I don't know about DIVX software since I was waiting for the players. Will DVDlab support DIVX?

[TWEATTY]

cool, i knew if i made it controversial enough, the post wouldn't go unanswered like many others....so bring it on....that is the way you have to go to get something done....and i can put 2 or 3 full movies on one dvdr w/ great quality for the people who don't know better...to me that seem worth it....i don't even have to get up to change disk...to watch the next movie...

and just maybe if im lucky ....one of you might actually have a post that helps........thanks

[TWEATTY]

thanks, BOB........ ill have to check........

[ryanreko]

Whoever flames Divx is a n00b or just plain stupid... why dont you like it?? because its better at compresson than mpeg-1 and mpeg-2??... Before you know it theres gonna be settop players that will read divx off of a dvd (In HD format) so that you won't have to upgrade to the Blu Ray dvd burner when it comes out, and you can still get you HD signal... If your going to flame something make sure that its inferior...

[jdizzy40]

You are all wrong. DIVX is going bankrupt. It will never be a standard nor will it stick around. They are already working on its replacement. Better compression, maybe, but get the industry to accept it will never fly. Set-top players right...sure. Keep dreaming!

[Bob W]

You are all wrong. DIVX is going bankrupt. It will never be a standard nor will it stick around. They are already working on its replacement. Better compression, maybe, but get the industry to accept it will never fly. Set-top players right...sure. Keep dreaming!

Huh? There are already about five players on the market. The Kiss 450 comes to mind but there are other manufactures. Also a major chip manufacture is starting to make the decoder chips so I expect by the end of the year to see a bunch of them in the stores.

I was wrong there are seven stand alone DIVX players out not counting the X-Box and PS2 as you can see here https://www.videohelp.com/dvdplayers.php?DVDname=&Submit=Search&divx=1&Search=Search

[Hardcoreruss]

DIVX is near quality. Near DVD perfection but only 700 odd mb big.

I don't care if you've got dsl or not but 700mb to 6 and a half gig. No thanks the extra 5.3 gb will not make the picture THAT much better.

[vitualis]

Undoubtedly, some form of MPEG-4 or it's descendants will be the basis of consumer video compression in the future.

Whether it will be DivX is questionable. It has been around for ages and those players that support DivX are more of a status symbol than anything particularly useful or worthwhile.

In terms of consumer electronics, I would predict that something proprietary (e.g., WM9) may well become the defacto standard. This unfortunately is because the majority of the masses are uninformed.

XviD exists because not everyone wants to be locked into a proprietary/commercial solution (which DivX actually is). XviD is a very good open source and free MPEG-4 encoder that can create ISO MPEG-4 video.

Regards.

[SatStorm]

Me for example: I never use DiVX, I only use XviD....

A very usefull use of XviD, is doing realtime capture with Virtualdub and use it as a digital alternative to VHS. I do it all the time! Much better VHS...
Why you concern that the DviX/XviD/VCD/SVCD use is for DVD "backups" and only? There are many people use mpeg 4 very differently!

[inso1982]

why do some people get so annoying when it comes to talking about DIVX, its a great compression which gives great quality for its size. Like its been said previous not everyone has money to splash about and DIVx is a handy codec to use!

Personally i do like MPEG2 more as i have a DVDr but i would never complain that divx is not worthy of being praised!

if people had the money im sure they would all go out and buy Original DVDs and a DVD Player with surround sound and the job lot. The fact is........ you guessed it some people are poorer than others

i dont feel that coming onto a forum screaming and shouting that people should wake up and leave divx behind is the way to go about it.

enjoy your mpeg1/2 and keep spending that money!!

laterz all, felt i needed to stick up for something that has helped so many people get a nice movie collection at such a low cost

[spiderman2k1]

DIVX is great for Fan sub anime. Plus you can rig you Xbox and PS2 to play DIVX

[ilovephatchicks]

First of all divx/xvid is great for backin up of dvds and for sharing over the internet. it has good compression and will be around for a while.

theres alot of problems with divx/xvid too. with the set top boxes or dvd players that can play them... your not gonna have scene selection, or many of the other dvd features. there will be playin problems and searching problems. and some movies that are 2 hours/+ will not be as clear. then there is the different frame sizes that are associated with divx/xvid. nearly no movie has the same frame size, so how is this gunna go down in playback? aspect ratios will be all over the place.

divx/xvid is too open. it could be either a good thing or a bad thing. but there needs to be guide lines. like vcd/svcd/dvd there needs to be a standard! they need to stick to 16:9, 4:3 or maybe a new format or the picture will be wrong

personally dvd media is the better way to go for now until things are changed, e.g blue ray dvds, better divx/xvid standards etc...

[fossil]

like spiderman said divx is great for fan sub animes.

[baker]

havent read this thread but think.

would you download a 4300mb 720x576 mpeg2 film.
or
would you download a 900mb 720x576 mpeg4 film.
THEN convert it to dvd in faster than realtime and burn it??

Mpeg 4 is well worth it.the above example proves it.

Baker

[vhelp]

hay baker..

>> would you download a 4300mb 720x576 mpeg2 film. or
>> would you download a 900mb 720x576 mpeg4 film.
>> THEN convert it to dvd in faster than realtime and burn it??

I would D/L the 900mb (provided I new it was a reputable source for good
quality he he) and encode it to DVD etc.

I've come a long way w/ divX - if you remember how I was so against it.
Today, I'm singing a different tone he he..

I've seen some pretty good divX movies - - mine he he..
-vhelp

[LanEvo7]

Can somebody tell me why MPEG4 has to have an AVI wrapper? I feel there would be a lot less problems if they had just made it standard MPEG4, like MPEG1/2, instead of having an AVI wrapper. Then again, I don't know much about MPEG4 so if you don't want to answer, don't flame me.

[herbapou]

If I am not mistaking, Panasonic is suppose to come out with a player that will read Microsoft Windows video media files. (MPEG-4)

[vitualis]

MPEG-4 does not need to have an AVI wrapper.

However, using a "wrapper" of some sort (e.g. AVI, WM, QT, RM, etc.) makes it easy for existing players to be able to play a new compression format (for example, by simply installing a codec with WMP.

Regards.

[Diversion]

Well I'm a newbie but here's my opinion. I prefer SVCD over DivX and if I have to use two CD-Rs for each movie then so be it. This is because I want to play my movies in my standalone and also be able to take my movie over to my friends homes and then we can all watch it on their players.

Hooking the PC to a TV can be cumbersome if you're not a teenager with your TV set and PC in the same small room. Also let's not forget that many people don't have the knowledge or simply can't be bothered to do it (yes i know it's not exactly difficult).

Then it's the question of quality, every SVCD I've seen have been better than DivX even if they booth claim to be DVDrips of the same movie. Now I don't know which is better but I doubt a DivX can beat a SVCD at max bitrate.

The only advantage I see with DivX is the compression which gives you smaller files but to me that's not enough to choose it over Mpeg2.

Just my 2