DivX

cellphones

VLC Media Player Now Available For iPhone and iPod Touch

Thanks to Zottd, iPhone users can now port the popular VLC media player to their iPhone or iPod touch, making it possible to drag, drop and play MPEG/MPG, AVI and MP3 media formats. He is also in the process of researching playback for VCD, DivX, WMA, and WMV, and he notes that FLAC and OGG are coming soon. The project is currently in beta, but a public release is on its way. Naturally, you will need a jailbroken phone to take part in this awesomeness. [zottd via Macrumors]

1:50 PM on Wed Jun 4 2008
By Sean Fallon
12,202 views, 39 comments

Latest by LastVigilante: I hope that this means I'll be able to watch the Live NASA TV stream on my iPod Touch. That would be sweet. more »

bad ideas

Staples to Start Selling Self-Destructing DVDs, Didn't Get the Memo

The tech world is full of inherently terrible ideas, but one especially bad one that just won't seem to die is the idea that people want to buy DVDs that will self-destruct in a couple of days. Beyond the fact that the entire concept is a giant kick to the balls of the environment, it's an idea that consumers have shown zero interest in getting behind. But here we are, nearly a decade after the idea was first floated, and Staples is about to get onboard with them. More »

11:21 AM on Mon Jun 2 2008
By Adam Frucci
9,937 views, 68 comments

Latest by brundlefly76: @Purple Dave: Don't think of it as a new business model or product - think about it as a new DVD marketing channel. For example, DVD *sales* already do well in the coveted supermarket checkout line standups, I think these discs could more »

home entertainment

Hack Apple TV In One Step With the aTV Flash Drive

The idea behind AppleCore LLCs aTV Flash Drive is that users can reflash their Apple TV and add all sorts of cool and useful functionality without having to waste time scrounging around the internet looking for hacks. According to the product website, all you need to do is install the drive and it will do the rest—without voiding your warranty. But what sort of features will it add? More »

4:40 PM on Tue May 27 2008
By Sean Fallon
10,772 views, 21 comments

portable media

Cowon A3 and Q5W Media Players Get 80GB Storage Each

We've reviewed both the Cowon A3 and the Q5W and found them to be fantastic media players with a pretty damn wide range of video and audio format support. Cowon's just bumped up both players to 80GB, which is great since you're probably going to be loading both with lots of video files. We're still waiting for it to go up to 160GB like the iPod classics though. [Cowon]

12:10 PM on Wed May 21 2008
By Jason Chen
3,709 views, 15 comments

portable media

IOGEAR's Portable Media Player Upscales Video to 720P, Bears World's Most Generic Name

IOGEAR's portable media player, actually named Portable Media Player, may look as generic as its name on the outside, but actually has some good features on the inside (but no screen). There's the most unique one, the ability to upscale video files to 720P for display on an HDTV, but there's also XviD, DivX, MPEG1/2, and full DVD menu support as well as a bunch of audio support. With a 120GB drive on board, the $349.95 price tag doesn't seem all that steep, but there's probably little to no chance that most people will have the use of playing back 720P video on the go, on other people's screens. Maybe if you traveled a lot and wanted to watch your own movies in hotel rooms? [IOGEAR]

3:00 PM on Tue Apr 8 2008
By Jason Chen
1,907 views, 15 comments

Latest by n/a: This is perfect for me. I download *all* of my movies, but hate having to cart my laptop to someone elses house if I want to bring a movie over, or to plan 6 hours ahead in order to more »

divx

Panasonic's DMP-BD30K Blu-ray Player Goes DivX Certified

Panasonic's just become the first manufacturer to make a DivX-certified stand-alone Blu-ray player, the BD30K, which will be available in Europe and Russia starting this month. It's not the first machine to have both DivX and Blu-ray (the PlayStation 3 did that a few months ago), but it does signal the continuation of a trend that started with many DVD players getting DivX functionality. Do you really need DivX on your Blu-ray player? Probably not, but if you're frequently downloading stuff off BitTorrent, having another machine that can play back last week's Lost is pretty convenient. More »

4:00 PM on Fri Mar 7 2008
By Jason Chen
5,776 views, 13 comments

Latest by n/a: WALL OF TEXT more »

stage 6

DivX's Stage 6 Streaming Video Site Shutting Down

You may only be vaguely aware of DivX's Stage 6 video site (which probably explains why it wasn't successful) but it's going to be shut down entirely at the end of February. Stage 6 was DivX's YouTube-like video site meant to provide a bunch of streamable content for living room and mobile DivX players. The fact that it's being canned speaks to how successful the effort was. Most of you won't miss it, but we'll have a special place in our hearts for the handful of nudie clips we found on it that one time. [Stage 6] More »

6:40 PM on Mon Feb 25 2008
By Jason Chen
55,717 views, 83 comments

Latest by n/a: Don't know about the rest of u but stage six gave me the best for good streaming and quality I could find anywhere on the net. Many of the sites I use to watch many different things used links to more »

gadgts

Xbox Media Center Comes to Macs

Xbox Media Center, which was originally a media center for some console whose name we can't remember, has finally come to Macs. Why would you need this when FrontRow or other media centers work just fine natively? As the XBMC team (and loyal fans) can attest to, the codec support, usability and functionality is higher than even the Xbox 360 when it comes to playing back downloaded content. 9 to 5 Mac has an interview with one of the developers on the 0.1 version. [9to5mac]

1:05 PM on Thu Feb 7 2008
By Jason Chen
7,636 views, 20 comments

Latest by x23: @WeaponX101: be sure to pass that along to all the haters in basically every Apple post on Gizmodo. oh wait... it doesn't count when it is the other way around. right. more »

cellphones

LG KU990 Viewty Touchscreen Cellphone Can Now Record 640x480 DivX at 120FPS

Recording VGA-quality movies is nothing new, but DivX and LG just announced that the LG Viewty smartphone can now record VGA-quality movies at 120 frames per second with what looks like a software update (new ones will ship with it pre-loaded). Best of all, it records in the DivX format, which means you can watch it back on all kinds of DivX devices (your computer, various PMPs, the Xbox 360 and the PS3 for example). Besides recording at such a high rate, the phone can also take 5-megapixel stills, for the times when one picture says more than 120 of them. The Viewty is already available in Europe, and we got a hands-on with it last year. [Mobile Burn]

4:20 PM on Wed Feb 6 2008
By Jason Chen
14,522 views, 21 comments

Latest by Sqube: @izim1: Are you... are you a functioning illiterate? You didn't even pretend to read what I wrote. I said I want a phone, like this, with a slide out QWERTY keyboard on an American CDMA network. Reading is not that more »

format war

Sony Pictures Television to Offer DivX Movie Downloads

Adding more gasoline to the whole format war bonfire, Sony Pictures Television has announced that they will start distributing movies online using the DivX format. The files wil play in DivX Certified devices, including the recently updated PlayStation 3 as well as the updated Xbox 360. This, and not Blu-ray vs HD DVD, is the true battle for the future of movie distribution. Discs are so le tired. [Ars Technica]

11:30 AM on Fri Jan 11 2008
By Jesus Diaz
8,053 views, 42 comments

review

Lightning Review: Linksys 2200 HD Media Center Extender

The Gadget: Linksys' slightly fancier Windows Media Center Extender, which streams the Windows Vista/XP Media Center interface over the network so you can watch live or recorded TV and downloaded files on TV in HD. More »

12:01 AM on Mon Jan 7 2008
By Jason Chen
13,041 views, 20 comments

Latest by aphex242: @tehronin: He can't, because those don't work, as I said. @x23: .avi is a common wrapper, but not for h.264 formatted video. .mkv is far more prevalent a wrapper for h.264 video. I've seen 900,000 times more avi than mkv files, more »

sling

Slingcatcher: The Ultimate HD Streamer/File Player

Not only can you use this to play back streamed HD content from the Slingbox Pro HD on your HDTV, the Slingcatcher acts as a file dump for tons of file formats as well (DivX, XviD). The third and most innovative feature of the Slingcatcher is its ability to take video from your PC (either a portion of a screen or a specific window) and stream that to the Slingcatcher. It lets you watch YouTube video, ABC HD video, or anything you can play back on your computer—but on your living room HDTV.

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12:00 AM on Mon Jan 7 2008
By Jason Chen
10,102 views, 12 comments

Latest by LeinerNYC: Can i use this and also watch on pc, or just on tv? more »

home entertainment

Linksys DMA 2100/2200 Media Center Extenders Shipping Now

Those Media Center Extenders we told you about back in September (the ones that support DivX, XviD and WMV HD) are finally shipping now. Dell has both the Linksys DMA 2100 and 2200s up for sale, but a reader tells us that his 2100 doesn't actually work with DivX or XviD, and the manual makes no mention of this. It could be user error on his part. Anyone have any experience with it? More »

4:01 PM on Thu Dec 27 2007
By Jason Chen
4,771 views, 16 comments

gadgets

Cowon N3 PMP has 7-inch Screen, GPS, DivX/XviD Support

As dapreview points out, this just-announced Cowon N3 looks quite like the Cowon Q5W we reviewed a few weeks ago. The most noticeable difference comes from the fact that this has a 7-inch screen as opposed to the Q5's 5-incher. Other than that, there's no internal memory—you have to use one of two SDHC slots to add storage—and GPS and DMB (portable TV) support. The good news is that this does support DivX/XviD and all the other video and audio codecs the Q5W does, meaning that you'll never have to go a second without entertainment. Ever. [Dapreview]

3:20 PM on Thu Dec 27 2007
By Jason Chen
3,090 views, 11 comments

Latest by DJTripleRRR: Go ARCHOS! more »

ps3

PlayStation 3 XviD Playback Update: It Works, Kinda

Huzzah! I've discovered why XviD files didn't work in the PlayStation DivX Playback test. Apparently, streaming over Windows Media Player 11 does not work for any XviD files and most DivX files, but it does work fine if you load the files onto an external USB drive or burn it to a DVD. But there's a workaround, kind of. More »

12:42 PM on Tue Dec 18 2007
By Jason Chen
54,837 views, 89 comments

ps3 divx test

PlayStation 3 DivX Playback Tested

The PlayStation 3 2.10 update is here, bringing with it not only Blu-ray Profile 1.1 support (which adds picture in picture among other things), but DivX and WMV playback as well. Unfortunately, DivX support means DivX support, and ~~doesn't include XviD as some of us hoped~~ according to readers includes XviD support, but the files we have tested don't work at all. We threw our normal battery of files at our PS3, and came to the conclusion that it's not quite as good as the Xbox 360 implementation. Here are our notes.

Update: We've found that XviD playback does work, but only on burned DVDs and external hard drives. See here for an update and a workaround.

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3:01 AM on Tue Dec 18 2007
By Jason Chen
75,629 views, 83 comments

Latest by n/a: Hi :) I'm new in this PS3 WiFi streaming, I wonder if it is possible to get the DivX/XviD movie with subtitles on PS3? Subtitles would be in MicroDVD, Substation Alpha or other popular TXT-subtitle format... Does somebody know how to get more »

deal

Dealzmodo: DivX Pro Free For a Limited Time

We love watching DivX, but what if you want to create DivX? You'd normally have to pony up for the DivX Pro pack to let you encode your favorite movies into our favorite format, but for a limited time you can download DivX Pro for free. Think of it as an early Xmas present to get more people creating content in their format. Wait, I see what they're doing! [DivX via Wal-You via Cyber Net News]

7:10 PM on Thu Dec 13 2007
By Jason Chen
13,769 views, 37 comments

Latest by n/a: yea this would be cool if the link worked more »

ps3 meets divx

PS3 DivX Update Coming 'Very Soon'

We met with DivX earlier today to discuss their upcoming plans, and one of the topics that came up was support for the PS3 console. According to the company, they expect the previously announced firmware update to hit the PS3 soon, which will enable full DivX support for the console. Though no specific time frame was given for this upgrade, their particular emphasis on saying it was coming soon leads us to believe it's "coming in a week or two" soon, as opposed to "4 months down the road" soon. More »

4:37 PM on Thu Dec 13 2007
By Adrian Covert
15,880 views, 24 comments

Latest by n/a: > the PS3 is DivX-certified, meaning not > only is playback guaranteed to function > properly, but game developers can also > use the compression Actually, that has nothing to do with being "certified". XBox could offer the same feature if they wanted more »

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