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BetaBoy
27th February 2002, 18:04
As my two year anniversary with DivX and my one year anniversary with DivXNetworks has just come to pass. As of today I will no longer be a part of the DivXNetworks company.

For those that know my past and what had brought me to DivXNetworks was my founding of MyDivX.com which then merged into and became the basis for the current DivX.com that you see today. I am proud of that fact and leave knowing that we are now one of the webs leading communities with millions of people visiting the site every month.

What I have had the pleasure of, is what you all don't see behind the scenes. The work and dedication from the DARC team developers and their commitment and vision to produce the best possible video codec available today is commendable. It has been a privilege to work with those people.

I leave knowing the fact that the DivXNetworks technology is well positioned for the future. At its core is the MPEG-4 compliant DivX video codec. For those that still doubt the validity of the technology and actually how good it is. All you need to do is look at recent joint announcements by Fraunhofer, Sigma Designs and DivX 5.0 to quell those doubts.

I would personally like to thank Doom9 and the community here for all there support and insight. Everyone here has been incredibly supportive of our efforts and your constant feedback has and is still crutial to the DivX codecs success.

Even though I will not be a part of the companies future... I will still be here and have promised myself that I will not be leaving the DivX community behind that I helped to form. I will still post on Doom9 on occasion and will field questions. I also still plan on assisting Marc over at ProjectMayo with the 'Dreamcast DivX Player' Project and the 'Pocket DivX Player' as well.

As far as my future plans... I am working on being a part of a much larger community from which DivX feeds from and is a part of. I will soon make an announcement on this.

I am proud to have been associated with the DivX Codec and some of the people that created it from the very beginning. I thank you all for your support, patience, friendship and understanding. I hope I have helped some of you learn, as I know I have learned much from all of you in the past two years.

God Bless-

Dan "BetaBoy" Marlin
DivX.com Community Leader


BTW… To contact me you may do so by the following ways.

AIM: mydivxmedia
ICQ: 2930386
MSN: dmarlin@hotmail.com
Email: dmarlin@hotmail.com

ChristianHJW
27th February 2002, 22:26
Dan,

please allow me to post here, same as you did when i said goodbye at DivX.com ( still tears in my eyes ... sniff ! ).

I dont know the reasons why you are leaving DivX N now, but hopefully will learn about them one day. Let me thank you for the patience you had when i was first showing up at mydivx.com, answering all my stupid Newbie questions :D, critizing here and there without generally having a clue about what was going on.

With you leaving the community has lost one of its founders, and i really love'd to see you around here more often. And dont you dare to not tell us what your future plans are !! :devil:

Good luck, all the best and dont forget to visit us from time to time .... :)

Nic
28th February 2002, 12:55
Just to echo my thoughts on divx.com,

Good luck & you'll be very missed :)

Take Care,
-Nic

BetaBoy
1st March 2002, 04:16
@ChristianHJW ... thanx and yes I do remember those days early days for you ;-) ... Seems you have learned alot of the past two years!

I will always be here from time to time... and of coarse when 5.0 is released next week I will be here as I have considerable info on it for everyone that I want to share with you all.

@Nic ... XviD? mmmmmm Sounds like an evil plan indeed... we will talk more about this.

----
Dan Marlin
Coming soon... The Concentric Circles of audio and video.

Nic
1st March 2002, 10:15
Thats great to hear you'll be about for DivX5's release...... :)

I hope you'll still be about as much as possible.....(otherwise we're all going to have to listen to BlackSun crying....which won't be pretty) :D

Take Care,
-Nic

BetaBoy
1st March 2002, 16:42
Well according to this press release:
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/020301/laf027_1.html

it will be released on monday... now if anyone wants to know the features... just look for Blacksuns post over at XviD.org ... He pretty much describes what it will be capable of.

But there is a catch... you will all find out what that is when it is released.

Nic
1st March 2002, 16:50
"Word on the street" :) is that there will be a normal & a pro version....Now Doom9 doesn't want us to speculate, but from what I can hear this ain't speculation...And seeing im talking to you I might get away with it :)

(& the pro version people will have to pay for....)

Thanks for the info, I think, although subtly, you've confirmed some of my thoughts :)

Cheers,
-Nic

ps
We'd better close the speculation there....dont want to upset Doom or his mods.

Ookami
1st March 2002, 19:49
Mr. Marlin, I wish you all the best and of course good luck in your next projects.

Cheers,


Mijo.