Anyone know where you can still get divx4?/guide discussion

evillego · Post by **evillego** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 8:57 pm

VicBond007's guide to working with dvd footage says that you should use the divx4 codec rather than 5 and it gives a link to where you can still download the codec. Unfortunately, that link is no longer active. I've looked around online for divx4 for windows, but I haven't been able to find it. Anyone know a location of the codec?

Thanks

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:03 pm

I *reaaaaalllly* wouldn't follow vicbond's guide if you wanna do things the right way ^^;

evillego · Post by **evillego** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:05 pm

ugh...fantastic.
Are there any guides you know of that are worth following?

Zarxrax · Post by **Zarxrax** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:09 pm

AquaSky · Post by **AquaSky** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 9:10 pm

http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/avtech/ is your best bet.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 12:23 am

If you really need it for some reason, you can get it here:
http://www.divx-digest.com/software/divxcodec4.html

But ffdshow should handle decoding of DivX4-encoded content fine (as should XviD, I'm pretty sure). And XviD 1.0 and DivX 5+ are better for encoding anyway.

Jnzk · Post by **Jnzk** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:16 am

This makes me question why we have conflicting guides on the site...

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:50 am

Janzki wrote:This makes me question why we have conflicting guides on the site...

I'd guess it's because a lot of people are too lazy to read the full guide and look up any definitions they don't understand.

What _might_ help with this is a system that would allow people to comment on various sections of guides, sort of like how many technical manuals on the Web are set up (look at, for example, the PostgreSQL documentation).

Or, well, maybe it won't.

Org Profile · Post by **VicBond007** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 9:01 am

Janzki wrote:This makes me question why we have conflicting guides on the site...

Because some of us would rather leave a render going overnight and be done with it than wait 10 seconds every time I want to move my timeline marker, or actually preview all of the frames in the clip I'm thinking about pulling, and not just the I-frames.

And new-guide is out, just not on the .org. Was waiting for all the comments to subside from Otakon before I released it.

My way is right for me. After a lot of feedback, it's apparently been right for a lot of other people too. I'm sharing my method, and due to my history, people tend to follow my advice. If it's not working for you, don't complain. It's free

trythil · Post by **trythil** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 3:07 pm

VicBond007 wrote:
Janzki wrote:This makes me question why we have conflicting guides on the site...
Because some of us would rather leave a render going overnight and be done with it than wait 10 seconds every time I want to move my timeline marker, or actually preview all of the frames in the clip I'm thinking about pulling, and not just the I-frames.

I've never had that problem with any method mentioned in EADFAG (and really, with proper indexing, that problem simply cannot occur), but, okay, whatever.