divx v. xvid?

[richarddd]

Has anyone done any testing to determine which works better on standalone players (Philips DVP642 in my case)?

[bond]

striked for not using the search function

[richarddd]

Search revealed that people generally liked the quality of xvid better than divx, other than that xvid sometimes stuttered. Some also reported divx stutter, but this seemed less common. People hoped xvid would not stutter when VBV was implemented. xvid 1.1 has VBV, but I haven't seen any posts comparing xvid with VBV to divx on a standalone.

Searches have included "divx xvid vbv" and "divx xvid *642." Please suggest a better search.

[bond]

you should read up much more about coding technologies like the ones standardised in mpeg-4
to make it short: divx5 and xvid are both mpeg-4 compliant, if you use the same settings in both codecs you will get the same results on a hardware player
if a player has problems with a specific setting, it doesnt makes a difference whether you encode using this problem setting in either xvid or divx5

[richarddd]

Originally posted by bond
divx5 and xvid are both mpeg-4 compliant, if you use the same settings in both codecs you will get the same results on a hardware player

If you'll get the same results with either codec, why did Doom9 bother to do a codec comparison?

[Teegedeck]

Your question was 'which works better on a standalone', not 'which one produces better quality encodes' (which is the question Doom9 answers with his comparions). Your concern seemed to be 'stuttering' and other compatibility-issues, not quality.

And to that you got the answers. As for the quality-question, well; there were some comparisons at www.doom9.org...

[richarddd]

By works better, I meant a combination of no stutters and best quality.