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JimmyBarnes
25th March 2002, 12:46
Hi

After reading Sticky's "the solution", and seeing posts elsewhere where others say that installing DivX5 made it impossible to view DivX3 and 4 rips, I'm very reluctant to proceed with DivX 5 installation.

Pity, cos ppl are already rushing into publishing DivX5 rips of some stuff I'd like to see.

Comments please

thanks
JB
theReal
25th March 2002, 14:22
Divx5 doesn't make playback of Divx3 and 4 impossible. Only some people think divx3 looks bad with the divx5 playback filter. If you think so as well, there's a way to get the divx3 playback back, it was posted somewhere in this forum.

I personally don't think divx3 looks bad with divx5 playback. I actually like divx5 post-processing filters for all divx files. I seem to be the only one, tho...
JimmyBarnes
26th March 2002, 03:12
Originally posted by theReal
Divx5 doesn't make playback of Divx3 and 4 impossible. Only some people think divx3 looks bad with the divx5 playback filter. If you think so as well, there's a way to get the divx3 playback back, it was posted somewhere in this forum.

When DivX5 installs, doesn't it give the option to playback all DivX3/4 content or not?

Apart from playback, does DivX5 interfere with the other two codecs in any way eg. during ripping?

thanx
JB
dragoman
26th March 2002, 04:05
@theReal

I like it too! :) No problems with using DivX 5 filter to playback 3.11/4 content.

@JimmyBarnes
Currently, when you install DivX 5 there is no option to not use DivX 5 filter to playback all content. But read the sticky, there is a way to fix it if you want to.

As I said, I have no problems using DivX 5 filter...

dragoman
Acaila
26th March 2002, 11:48
Apart from playback, does DivX5 interfere with the other two codecs in any way eg. during ripping?

DivX5 installation will replace your DivX4 codec entirely. That means you can no longer encode movies with DivX4 even if you wanted to. There a way to have both codecs installed regardless of this, there's a link to the post that describes how in the DivX5 Q&A sticky.
JimmyBarnes
27th March 2002, 00:06
Originally posted by Acaila

DivX5 installation will replace your DivX4 codec entirely. That means you can no longer encode movies with DivX4 even if you wanted to. There a way to have both codecs installed regardless of this, there's a link to the post that describes how in the DivX5 Q&A sticky.

Does it also replace DivX3.11alpha?

If so, would the above workaround allow DivX5 and DivX3.11a to coexist?

thanks
JB
theReal
27th March 2002, 03:34
No, it doesn't replace divx 3.11