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What ever happened to 3ivx?
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Clinically Insane
Join Date: Nov 1999
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Feb 5, 2002, 10:17 AM
 
Anyone know what's going on with 3ivx lately? After some absence from their forums, I went back the other day to find that they've been closed down. I assume something's amiss, but I guess I've missed something. What gives?
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Mac Elite
Join Date: Feb 2001
Location: adrift in a sea of decadent luxury and meaningless sex
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Feb 5, 2002, 02:16 PM
 
about 2 or 3 weeks ago, the forums were "hacked" (details were not given). Jan explained how he hadn't kept backups since the first 2 or 3 weeks of the forums existence, so most of the information contained within is banished to Google's cache (you can search the 3ivx server only for something like '3ivx' and probably find most of the threads). So V99 gave him no end of shit, up to and including breaking into his (Jan's) account. We all had a good laugh, except V99 who scowls instead of laughing, and then 2 days later the forums were closed. No explanation exists, but the two leading theories are that Jan shut it down to fix the various major security holes in ikonboard, or that someone else hacked an admin's account and set the Maintenance flag and left. bummer.

As for the actual codec, it's the same old story; they're working on it

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Feb 5, 2002, 02:21 PM
 
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Posting Junkie
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Feb 6, 2002, 01:37 AM
 
Yah, 3ivx just didn't have a following... They could have been a cool alternative to Divx, but Divx is free... so...

(can't wait for MPEG4 with QT6!!!)
     
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Feb 6, 2002, 01:39 AM
 
Yah, 3ivx just didn't have a following... They could have been a cool alternative to Divx, but Divx is free... so...

(can't wait for MPEG4 with QT6!!!)
     
 
   
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