Coming up: Divx hardware support

[Hobojobo]

Folks, have you read THIS (http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/020409/90258_1.html)?!

"The agreement will enable the creation of a number of DivX Certified hardware devices, including handheld DivX video players, DivX-enabled DVD players, home video jukeboxes, Digital Video Recorders, digital set-top boxes, digital video cameras and more. Additionally, the two companies will work together to integrate digital rights management (DRM) technology into the devices to ensure secure playback of high-quality digital video."

Where, when can I order my first portable DVD-DIVX-MP3-OGG(:D)-Player? Price? Don't care.
I get some shares of that company as well, for it will be a bestseller, won't it?

Enought of it! Calm down!

What do you think? Any comments on this?

[Canuck]

I would buy a DivX player @ a price below $300. Otherwise, i will stick with my pc :rolleyes:

[Hobojobo]

Wow, what a feedback.
Please don't blast the forum by answering, please.
(They going to ban me lifelong for starting this threat.:scared: )

[gldblade]

>OGG

Probably no ogg.

>They going to ban me lifelong for starting this threat

...

[Teegedeck]

That's not really 'news'. More excitingly, the next generation of regular DVD-players should be capable of playing back ISO-MPEG4-streams as HDTV-DVDs will be encoded in MPEG4. I want one. :)

[hyway]

http://www.sigmadesigns.com/products/xcard.htm
gg

[Doom9]

the xcard does not support qpel mc and b-frames. That makes it useless for divx5 pro and upcoming xvid releases

[Hobojobo]

@hyway
Can you explain me the benefit of the xcard, a pci-card to play DIVX etc. ? You need a computer to put the card in, right?
But my computer(+TV-out) can already play Divx,etc, even DIVX 5 pro ;) .
Or is the sound output of the xcard the interesting bit?
Would that be the reason to get one of those? Tell me.

[mrbass]

To me it seems like divx5 hardware and I'm sure it'll have full on copy protection. In other words divx from circuit city all over again. divx:-) was meant to make fun of that ridiculous attempt which Circuit City lost of $100 million on when it went sour. All those dvd players that cost $100 extra down the drain. Looks like that might happen to current HDTV owners too. Maybe when the rich people who spent $5,000 to $10,000 on HDTV will fight back since it personally affects them. Until then consumers will keep getting screwed.

I know if I was designing a divx hardware player it'd be a nightmare. We support divx5pro b-frames mp3 cbr/vbr encoded with an authorized key, but not regular divx3, divx4, ogg, xvid without an authorized key. Of course this is pure speculation but it sure seems chaotic.

[Hobojobo]

A hypothetical question:

Can I burn a DIVX5-cd today, which is played on such a DIVX-supported DVD-Player for certain ?
Or is the format for DIVX-cds still to be specified? Like ISO-MPEG4-stream or such a thing. (I don't know anything about that. :(
Can I take the mp4-write-thingy to create such a cd, provided that the audio is fully implemented?