Paul, Not sure I understand the context of your comment, but i'm hoping you don't think i was ignoring your help because we already corresponded on this - you were most helpful, I just haven't quite got to the bottom of the DivX conundrum, and was mystified that there was no comprehensible information available (outside your posts). Think the DivX community & corps could be doing a better job of communicating what's good about their "world's most popular codec" and how it works, that's all. Rupert
On 23 Feb 2007, at 18:46, Paul Knight wrote: sometimes poeople talk shit in this group, some others who try to help you get ignored Paul On 23 Feb 2007, at 18:02, Rupert wrote: > Jon, > > Thanks for that. > > I tell you one thing you could do which would help your cause a lot. > Provide a simple explanation on your site of why people posting > online video should use DivX. Specifically with regard to my > concerns below: > > I must be stupid, but I spent hours today - HOURS - trying to find > out what the hell DivX was, why I should use it, why I hadn't heard > of it being used by any videobloggers, who exactly *does* use it to > make it "the world's most popular video compression technology". > Could I believe any of this? Did it matter? > > And what form do DivX files come in? Some things talk about AVI, > Paul makes his in MOV. Everywhere says that DivX audio is in MP3 > form. How is this packaged with the video: in one file? And isn't > this a pain? > > And most of all, IF I USED IT, WOULD PEOPLE BE ABLE TO WATCH MY > VIDEOS WITHOUT PERFORMING COMPLICATED TECHNICAL PROCEDURES TO UPGRADE > THEIR PLAYERS? > > Honestly, this information could not be more difficult to find. The > Wikipedia entry is impenetrable geekspeak, the DivX.com site is full > of hype and no answers to any of the questions above. I googled for > a long time, and tried to find Groups and Forums. I'm exhausted and > annoyed. I still don't really know the answers to any of them. > > It comes down to this: I am happy with encoding my films in Quicktime > with the H264 codec, and theoretically in Windows Media if I can find > the time, and letting Blip make a flash player for my blog. Why > should I use DivX? Are there people out there who are big DivX fans > who are looking for DivX content and would subscribe to my feed so > that they can watch DivX films on their portable devices? > > What? Why? Who? Where? When? HELP! > > Rupert > > On 23 Feb 2007, at 16:55, JV wrote: > > I don''t want to get into a commercial here, but just trow out some > details. > > DivX is based on the h.263 standard. The ipod can decode h.263, but > requires it to comply to the Apple standards. On the other hand, DivX > is integrated into a lot of devices as a feature on products > (phillips, Sony, Toshiba...) to the tune of over 70 million devices > shipped. I'm not sure how many video enabled ipods have shipped. > > There are always elements we are working on to make the technology > better tailored for video blogging. It is a marathon, not a sprint. > That is why you see Ben and myself bopping around in forums and at > events. We want to do it right, and we that means ingesting as much > input as possible. Part of that is orchestrating web elements with a > coherent and powerful consumer electronics offering. We think part of > that CE offering should be that it is global and open. > > On the computer side, that means we comply with standards that are > published and open as well as support as much on the OS side as we > can. We just released the open source encoding app for Mac. Our > browser plugin is tested on every browser on PC and Mac. To take it a > step further, our videos are decodable by numerous third party > applications like VLC (This means the video works in the Democracy > Player). On the flip side, we work with xvid so they can include DivX > profiles in their encoder. This allows xvid to be decoded in our > decoders. > > So there are a lot of improvements to work on, but when I look back > over the past few years, I think we are laying some good tracks. > > JV > > --- In [email protected], "Robyn Tippins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > Slightly on the subject, I use Adobe Premier 1.5 and I don't see > H.264 as an > > option. I see H.262 and H.263, but no H.264. I have considered > upgrading > > to 2.0, will that give me H.264 as an option? > > > > > > > > Robyn Tippins > > > > ---- > > > > Sleepyblogger.com | Gamingandtech.com | Intel.com/software > > > > _____ [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
