DivX VP "not very happy" with the Xbox 360's codec decision

yea, I lent a MMD to a friend who has a PS3 and she can only play a handful of the movies on there. they worked fine on my 360.

what gives?

You hit the nail on the head. It's all about the money. DivX wants MS to license its codec so they get paid.

yes it can

Anyway who care what divx says the codec is open source anyone can write a decoder thye should just stop whining the divx brand is pants anyway xvid is much better

I should rephrase that. I can play *my* Xvid videos. Tested through Gspot and almost ALL of my xvid files DO NOT play on a PS3 to stream from a network.

Can should be "Can't"

While I do like the MKV container. I'm sure it would only support the Divx Codec inside that container.

So than the MKV is only really good for having multiple streams of Divx and audio in one MKV. Not terrible, but its still a slight

hope so

I sick of installing 3rd party codecs.




Also Win7 supports ISO burning. Thank god they finally making life easier.

dude, clearly you downloaded it on an old rrod console and it's just exhibiting the same drm signs as xbla games and all other dlc. just download it again and it will work offline. i hardly ever sign in when i watch shows off my 360.

I think It has something to do with me recovering my profiles, I think I have to make a new one to make it work offline.

Nick,

When was the last time you used Tversity to stream to your PS3? It stopped working with June's PS3 update buddy. Many users (Such as myself) were forced to switch to Twonky in order to stream items to the PS3. Tversity still works fine on my 360 though, I've never had any problems with it. Perhaps your connection is slow??

yea but thats not really Microsofts Fault its more Netflix who don't support Canada/UK.

If there was a competing service in Canada/UK i'm sure Microsoft would do it. It would be cool if Microsoft and Rogers worked out a little deal since Rogers already has Rogers on Demand, that would be interesting.

As for TVersity works great for me, I however have just been putting shows on a USB and playing them straight from the USB device with no problems. If I do experience a show/movie which won't work then i'll just use TVersity to get it working and so far i've had no problems whatsoever

Oh, TVersity works fine on my 360, however what doesn't work fine is MKV w/ 5.1 surround sound. There's no MKV2Vob program for the 360.

So if I want to have video and sound, the 360 isn't the proper choice.

And I'm not faulting MS for not providing the service, at least they HAVE video available to Canada, unlike the PS3. That said, I'm not going to deal with the way MS handles their points for Canada.

With the PS3, $1 for an item is $1, and with the Canadian dollar, I make out nicely. With the 360, the points are all based around the US dollar and we get shafted. So there's no way I'm going to pay an extra few dollars to get a movie through the Xbox marketplace. Funny thing is that in Canada, far more people have high-speed connections, so there may be fewer people in total, but the majority are all on connections that would be able to perfectly stream this content.

Sigh. Ah well, it is what it is. Regardless, HD media for me goes to my PS3 until I get my Popcorn Hour up and running, my 360 is games only.

Yeah, exactly what I was thinking.

MKV and H.264.

I could understand if we were on 56K modems but we're not.

Do you lot not understand quality ;)

DivX is so 90's

56K and Satellite Internet.


People still using them


Like me (satellite)


Hopefully obama's internet plan will kill 56k.