divx 4 and 5 work around???

[cypher_soundz]

ok now i dont know if people know this and please correct me if i'm wrong .

i dual boot my box with windows 98 and 2k and have installed divx4 on 98 and divx 5 on 2k. Could this be a work around of the problem of having both codecs installed? because it works!!! Or does it just encode using the codec which has been over written in the other OS?

[Mrafrohead]

as long as you're keeping the install folders seperate for divx and are not just overwriting the current information with older information or vice versa, you're good:)

[cypher_soundz]

Cool well looks like i canhave both divx versions on my pc :D that is if i want to encode using win 98...i wonder if i can upgrade my win98 and dual boot 2 win 2k :D LOL ...time to experiment :P

[vio]

I found a .vbs file a while ago that let you switch between divx4 and 5. I'm still fairly sure it used divx5 decoder for playback when viewing divx4 content, but I suppose you could use ffdshow and select Xvid to decode it.

I probably found the file here on these forums, I was a little wary of running a vbs script but it was ok, only annoying thing was I have to disable the antivirus auto-protect, and you have to run it again to 'turn off' divx4. I find Xvid is close enough to divx4 (a bit better) so its a good alternative.