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MxxCon
24th January 2002, 07:08
check out
http://www.cdfreaks.com/news2.php3?ID=3243
i tried looking around Yamakawa's site for more info and for "divx" but didn't find any instances :) beyond that my knowledge of german couldn't get far:p
Doom9
24th January 2002, 14:37
how about www.doom9.org, 1/11 ? ;)
Ceronian
24th January 2002, 19:30
Believe me, there is no DivX player avaible. And I don't believe, that they develop one this or next year. Believe me, I looked around at the Yamakawa website and i found nothing about a standalone DivX player.

And I am able to read and write german very well;)
sonni_kuba
25th January 2002, 03:10
But honestly, how can you expect to have a standalone DivX player, when a new version of DivX comes out every six months? How many people would want to buy a standalone DivX player that would be obselete in one year's time.

:confused:

Unless, they find a way for an average Joe to update the codecs ?????
MxxCon
25th January 2002, 04:27
flashable bios/firmware..

can't you play any divx4 movies w/ any version of divx4 codec?
sonni_kuba
25th January 2002, 15:20
Yes, but what I am saying is if you get a standalone player that can play Divx4 content, what are you going to do when DivX5 comes out. From reading the forums, it will happen in the not so distant future.

Have you heard of any flashable bios/firmware.. upgrade for standalone players? i.e. How would you introduce it into the player?

It would be great if the MPEG4 standard was finalized, and MPEG4 stand alone players could come out. Then, it would simply be a matter of DivX being compatible with these players.

:cool:
Ceronian
25th January 2002, 16:13
Originally posted by sonni_kuba
Have you heard of any flashable bios/firmware.. upgrade for standalone players? i.e. How would you introduce it into the player?

jep, especially for Yamakawa :D

I don't know how it works. But i think, that one guy told me that you have to burn a cd with the firmware on it and put this into the DVD-Player. Now start the player and it will boot from the CD and upgrade the firmware.
Thats one of the easiest way do disable the region protection and macrovision and such sh*t.
MxxCon
25th January 2002, 18:05
Originally posted by sonni_kuba
Have you heard of any flashable bios/firmware.. upgrade for standalone players? i.e. How would you introduce it into the player?
TiVO has flashable bios. at night it dail out somewhere and d/l new bios..at least that's what my friend told me
Bad Joker
4th February 2002, 23:02
the only good link i found was this one:
Prototype DivX Player (http://www.wicketware.com/)

on the german site there is nothing.

but there is a way to get a european pay tv box to play divx, called d-box2

dunno how, maybe i do some more reseaches
dragoman
5th February 2002, 18:33
has upgradeable firmware.

It's an Apex AD-3201. I'm just waiting for someone to decode the firmware so that we can upload our own codecs to it....someday?

If this happens, theoretically I can make my DVD player play any video I want, as long as I can upload the proper codec to it.

dragoman
Doom9
5th February 2002, 20:57
mpeg-4 takes way more horsepower to decode than mpeg-2.. hence I doubt that any standalone DVD player on the market will ever be able to play mpeg-4. Keep in mind that all players have highly specialized DSP chips and contain mpeg1/2 and audio decoding capabilities hardwired on the chip. the chip can't just execute any software you like and even if it could.. it would be pretty bad at anything it wasn't specifically designed for.