DigitAl56K
8th September 2007, 05:04
As of this Friday DivX Player features an audio enhancer powered by Power Technology's DFX DSP engine. Transcoding into todays popular Internet media formats is lossy and subject to many factors causing degradation: reduced spatial separation, bandpass filtering, ATH discarding, psychoacoustical modeling, noise reduction, quantization, and more. Even older original masters or those that were not produced using studio hardware costing tens of thousands of dollars have plenty of room for improvement.
I'm a bit of an audio geek and I've used dozens if not hundreds of DSP plugins over the years, but DFX has consistently remained my personal favorite. It can make even the most muffled and flat soundtrack sound sharp and lively - so much so that I generally dislike listening to music without it. Call me a fanboy, but I'm extremely happy to announce that you can now use DFX with your favorite DivX videos!
The enhancer provides controls to boost fidelity, ambience, spatialization, dynamics, and bass tone. You can also choose to optimize the processing for low or high energy music, or for speech. Combine this with our free video sharpening post-processing mode and DivX Player becomes a very powerful environment for your content.
You can try the audio enhancer free for 30 days, and then it's around $10 to register. Toggle the power button on and off while playing videos to hear the difference. There are 15 built-in presets optimized for various audio types. Need some test material? Download it from Stage6 (http://stage6.divx.com)!
Read more about the DFX Audio Enhancer here (http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/player/dfx/).
Side note: The default Dynamic Boost should be level 3, not level 2. We'll be fixing that next week, but you might want to increase it yourself for now.
Enjoy :)
I'm a bit of an audio geek and I've used dozens if not hundreds of DSP plugins over the years, but DFX has consistently remained my personal favorite. It can make even the most muffled and flat soundtrack sound sharp and lively - so much so that I generally dislike listening to music without it. Call me a fanboy, but I'm extremely happy to announce that you can now use DFX with your favorite DivX videos!
The enhancer provides controls to boost fidelity, ambience, spatialization, dynamics, and bass tone. You can also choose to optimize the processing for low or high energy music, or for speech. Combine this with our free video sharpening post-processing mode and DivX Player becomes a very powerful environment for your content.
You can try the audio enhancer free for 30 days, and then it's around $10 to register. Toggle the power button on and off while playing videos to hear the difference. There are 15 built-in presets optimized for various audio types. Need some test material? Download it from Stage6 (http://stage6.divx.com)!
Read more about the DFX Audio Enhancer here (http://www.divx.com/divx/windows/player/dfx/).
Side note: The default Dynamic Boost should be level 3, not level 2. We'll be fixing that next week, but you might want to increase it yourself for now.
Enjoy :)