Not to dig up this old thread, but I've been pondering it the past few days and wanted to add my thoughts
First, I'm sorry that you couldn't find any pertinent information on DivX on DivX.com. That's terrible and something we struggle with and aim to fix. DivX.com has become a hub of many things and often gets overcrowded with too many things and the signal gets lost in the noise. And that kid of also is a good way to explain a lot of the confusion around DivX in general. People get caught up in some of the smaller subsets of what we do and spend hours debating features and formats and miss the bigger picture. And the bigger picture is this; DivX is not a codec company. We never have been. Since day one our vision was to build a platform and tools to empower content creators to distribute their content and deliver a high quality experience to their audience. To achieve this goal we started with creating a high quality experience with the video, hence the codec. We then worked to leverage that high quality experience on the PC and move it into the living room where users want to watch their content. I think the question of why to use DivX comes down to experience. What is the focus of your vlog or content? Is it a quick lean forward short form content where a small 320x240 pixilated window will suffice? Or do you want a lean back experience where the user is immersed in the content and they watch a much larger format if not full screen version of your content. When DivX was started we saw the shifts in technology that would allow for a complete shift in media and the way it was used. First you saw, and continue to see, the cost lower of tools to create the content. You can now get an HD camera for less than $1,000, something unheard of 10 years ago. Then the software side of things started to take off, with Avid, Final Cut etc becoming available to help create this content. Now you are seeing the distribution side of things starting to come in. Broadband access reaching more homes in the US and catching up with other countries. It's the culmination of these shifts in technology and the changing of media that is our vision. Shifting the power from the few to the masses. Creating a common media language that spans computer, networks, the living room and beyond. Creating a high quality open platform that carries with it the vision of changing media for the better is what DivX does. We can discuss the finer details of compression and the webplayer, but don't miss it for the bigger picture. Watching this new content in the living room is an amazing shift in power. Being able with a few clicks of my remote to bring up the latest episode of Galacticast or JetSetShow on my TV changes everything about how I consume media and share it with my friends. If you are passionate about creating content, about your content, about changing the media for the better, then you are with us and should be talking with us. We want to hear your ideas and input to help realize this vision. We've done well thus far (caution gratuitous stats to follow) with our 250 Million downloads of our software and over 70 Million hardware units shipped, but we have even bigger things coming. Sorry for the long post, I hope I didn't lose to many. If you have any questions please ask them, or feel free to contact me directly. [EMAIL PROTECTED] And if you are looking for a few Vloggers and content creators using DivX here is a quick list of names you may or may not recognize: http://commandn.typepad.com/ http://stage6.divx.com/GALACTICAST http://www.jetsetshow.com/ http://stage6.divx.com/Geek_Entertainment_TV http://hak5.org/ http://stage6.divx.com/Tiki_Bar_TV http://labrats.tv/ http://stage6.divx.com/AskANinja http://www.purepwnage.com/ --- In [email protected], Rupert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I feel a bit of a fool. I was talking to somebody about vlogging > and they were raving to me about the quality and compression of DivX. > > I don't know anything about DivX. I don't feel that much wiser after > reading up about it on Wikipedia, DivX.com etc > > I don't know any vloggers who use it, and can't remember seeing a > DivX labelled feed, the way many people list QT, WMV and iPod feeds. > Why do so few people use it, when it would appear to be very popular > among P2P video sharers? > > Every conversation about which formats to use, always discusses QT, > MP4, Windows Media and Flash? When people talk about using Windows > Media files, are they also assuming that DivX is under this banner, > because Windows Media Player comes preinstalled with the DivX codec? > > And if so, why do people provide wmv files and feeds instead of divx, > if DivX is so much better? Or is it not? > > Yours confused > > Rupert >
