divx 5.0.4

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divx 5.0.4

Postby Farlo » Mon Apr 21, 2003 12:07 pm

just to let anyone who uses divx that a new version is out, and that the new version actually looks(encoding quality) a little better than 5.0.3
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Postby Lonley Driver » Mon Apr 21, 2003 12:53 pm

Hmm.... But the real question is, if you encode stuff in 5.04, will it work with previous versions of DivX, unlike a lot of the stuff encoded with 5.03. :?

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Postby Farlo » Tue Apr 22, 2003 3:28 pm

heh heres a questio: if they are too lazy to get the newest version..should they really be watching the amv in the first place?
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Postby jbone » Tue Apr 22, 2003 10:28 pm

el_farlo wrote:heh heres a questio: if they are too lazy to get the newest version..should they really be watching the amv in the first place?

It's not that I'm too lazy to get the newest version, it's that I don't like a lot of the crap in versions above 5.02. Heck, I don't like DivX 5 at all, and if I didn't occasionally need to open a DivX 5-encoded video in VirtualDub, I woudln't ever have installed DivX 5 to begin with.
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Postby trythil » Wed Apr 23, 2003 12:06 am

el_farlo wrote:heh heres a questio: if they are too lazy to get the newest version..should they really be watching the amv in the first place?


Uh, well, yeah. Hint: There's more to this world than Windows.
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Postby Farlo » Wed Apr 23, 2003 1:30 am

yeah there is....but i don't care for macs...and linux is meh

im perfectly happy being ripped off by microsoft
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Postby trythil » Wed Apr 23, 2003 1:51 am

el_farlo wrote:yeah there is....but i don't care for macs...and linux is meh

im perfectly happy being ripped off by microsoft


You might be, but those of us who use something else would still like to be able to work with the rest of the world.

(Actually, as it turns out, mplayer can work with DivX 5.0.3-encoded files just fine. What I'm arguing is here is the principle of the thing, though.)
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Postby Farlo » Wed Apr 23, 2003 3:40 am

avi > mpeg
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Postby Dannywilson » Wed Apr 23, 2003 6:34 am

/me takes the duck and cover...

Mpeg=format

Avi=CONTAINER for formats!

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Postby trythil » Wed Apr 23, 2003 12:26 pm

Dannywilson wrote:/me takes the duck and cover...

Mpeg=format

Avi=CONTAINER for formats!

:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:


Yeah...and it should also be noted that DivX is an implementation of MPEG-4.

Way to go!

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Postby RadicalEd0 » Wed Apr 23, 2003 2:03 pm

mpeg and avi are both container formats. Mpeg system streams are more advanced than the crappy ancient video-for-windows (vfw) engine that avi is built on, in that they can handle vbr audio, multiple b-frames, and other nifties like that.
As far as codecs go, mpeg 1 and mpeg 2 are the only ones available for the common .mpg extension (mpeg system stream). Mpeg 4 has it's own extension and format based largely on quicktime (.mp4). It was microsoft's genius idea to release half-assed implementations of the then new mpeg 4 standard in vfw format as msmpeg1, 2, and eventually 3. They got the ball rolling (in the wrong direction) for mpeg 4 in avi. Avi itself can contain any codec that has a vfw interface and any audio codec with an acm (audio codec manager). Avi sucks though in that single b-frames are a hack, multiple b-frames are impossible, vbr mp3 is a hack, vbr anything else is pretty much impossible, the entire file is needed to begin playback so streaming avi is impossible, the overhead tends to be huge, and other such nuances.

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NMEAMV: YO
NMEAMV: MIXED
NMEAMV: DRINK
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Postby Farlo » Wed Apr 23, 2003 2:21 pm

not quite getting what i was meaning.... .avi is a cleaner alternative than just encoding into .mpeg/mpe/mpg, oir at least its my preference....trying to make me soung like hatter or something
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Postby RadicalEd0 » Wed Apr 23, 2003 2:26 pm

ack.. msmpeg4v1 2 and 3 ***
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