They've fixed one other big hitch: encoding time on AMD64 boxes is now greatly improved. DiVX has always been really Intel oriented; whereas other CODECs like WMV9 and others encoded quickly on AMD64 boxes, DiVX really lagged.. seems like that's been partly taken care of.
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Brian Weeden Sent: Thursday, June 16, 2005 8:47 AM To: hwg Subject: Re: [H] DiVX 6 Released > Why would you have to do that, Brian? http://www.divx.com/divx/dmf.php Right now everything I have is in Xvid, which I love. But there are some nice things about Divx 6. It scales up to awesome quality (comparable to Apple's H.264 some say) and awesome compression (even smaller file sizes than Xvid). But what really draws my attention is the built-in metadata tags, chaptering, subtitles, multiple audio tracks, and menu structure. One of the problems I currently find with my HTPC is library organization and searching. I have to have every file in a specific naming convention for the software (Meedio in my case) to be able to find and play them. This gets pretty tedius. I think there is a way to add metadata to regular avi files but as far as I know it is not really part of the standard and I haven't gotten it to work very well. Now, you're right that I don't HAVE to re-do everything. But it would be nice to have everything in the best format :) -- Brian
