Interoperability is also not about downplaying the significance of incompatibility with popular devices that have not chosen to participate in your certification program.
Despite all my waffle in the previous posts, Im reasonably confident that right now I could create an .mp4 with mpeg4 or h264 video, that will play on itunes, ipod, PSP, fireant, democracy, VLC, and in dozens of other software players on windows, os x and linux. Its nowhere near as easy as it should be, and in straightforward world where every device was likely to embrace divx, I would have absolutely nothing negative to say whatsoever about the codecs and tools that divx offers, your strategy, or anything youve said. But its not that clearcut, and so as in past years, you find me ranting about mpeg4 and seeking greater clarity. You say Sony, I say ' so does that include the sony PSP and PS3?' It all comes down to what will happen with devices in the future, and Im finding it to be really hard to tell what sorts of devices are actually out there and being used by people, is there even a huge demand from people for compatible files for their device? People focussed on the iPod because of its profile, and all the hype and media attention and consumer attention that goes with it. But we know there are loads of other devices out there that can play video, some of them support divx, some support a range of mpeg4, some both. We hear about some of these devices here occasionally, but Ive no idea how many people are out there wanting to watch videoblogs on any of these. We could assume that comments from viewers would alert everyone to these demands, I dunno, what sort of a tiny fraction of humans are actually consuming video on mobile devices right now? Or on DivX certified DVD players? When video on mobile phones comes fully of age, what format will it be using, will the masses actually use their phones for this? As you can see this means that Im still unclear as to how big a problem this stuff will actually turn out to be in the future, maybe I shouldnt judge DivX & others so much based on device interoperability at all. After all the browser is where most of the action has been in the last 2 years, and I congratulate you again on sucessfully coming up with a divx browser solution that seems to work well and definately removed the most dramatic reason why divx wasnt a great fit for vloggers. Cheers Steve Elbows --- In [email protected], "JV" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As for mp3 audio, this sounds more complicated than it is. Every video > has some sort of audio, we just choose to use a very popular codec. If > you want, you can make a DivX file with ac3 audio. If the user doesn't > have ac3, they won't get sound. So, all files have a video stream and > an audio stream in the same file. All DivX encoding applications > include a licensed mp3 encoder. > interoperability. ('It plays in QT, iTunes and ipod' isn't exactly > interoperability. It plays on VLC, Sony, Toshiba, Democracy sounds a > little more interoperable to me). >
