which divx version is free?

[alphaivt]

to kill the 4 hours of empty time while i'm at college, i'm going to bring some movies to watch in the computer lab, first i have to install the divx codec. is there a version of the divx 5 sereis thats just the codec and will it play say 3.11 and 4 version codec encoded movies?

[-h]

This can be done with ffdshow.

You will make the lab technicians angry by installing things.

-h

[alphaivt]

oh yeah, forgot about that, oh well, i've seen some mirc and kazaa programs installed.

codecs can't cause instability in a system can it?

[-h]

Lab technicians are angry, angry people.

If anything goes wrong, any non-standard software on the machine will be blamed.

-h

[Mrafrohead]

That's right... And I'm the lab technician for your school, and if I catch you installing DivX on your computer without telling me first...

We'll just say that all the torment you got your freshman year in High School, will look like childs play!!!

Muwahahahahahahahahahaaaaaaa


Sincerely,

Your schools lab technician:angry: :D

[Tsui]

with the bsplayer it is possible to view movies without installing codecs

P.S. don't believe anything you hear (or read)

[Koepi]

Well, in my university they took away using rights for the computer pools of people installing anything on the computers there.
And it's hard to do your studies in e.g. "my discipline" without CIP access, so think about what you're doing there (well, if your studies don't require computer usage it doesn't matter)!

BUT we have clear "user/using rules" which clearly state that you shouldn't eat, drink, smoke - and install things there, and you have to subscribe for reading and understanding that.

It all depends on those rules, and the people enforcing them.

Regards,
Koepi

[gldblade]

Not only that, but I think someone would object to using up computer time for non-academic purposes, especially for such a long period of time and if there are people waiting to use those computers, although I don't know how many computers will be available at your college.

[benedict]

If you are not "NT controlled", DivX is available from (duh!) www.divx.com. Three versions of it are available: Paid, Ad-ware, and Freeware. The Ad-ware is the pro version with (obviously) ads. The pro version offers more control, but probably nothing that you need at this point. The freeware version allows both decoding and encoding, so you will likely find it quite usable for the time being at least.

P.S. DivX 5 will play all of your DivX 3 and 4 files.