[hegge]

Finally DivX.com has released an alphaversion of its quicktime
divx codec. Read all about it on DivX.com

/hegge (pbg4-ti 550)

[ 12-12-2001: Message edited by: hegge ]

[T.Rex]

How do you download the crazy thing? It's just an endless loop of registering, choosing your platform, pressing the download button and you get taken to another page exactly like the one you just completed!

It seems like the site itself is an alpha version.

[pete.z]

Originally posted by hegge:
<STRONG>Finally DivX.com has released an alphaversion of its quicktime
divx codec. Read all about it on DivX.com

/hegge (pbg4-ti 550)

[ 12-12-2001: Message edited by: hegge ]</STRONG>

Someone already tried this one?Is it working???

Originally posted by pete.z:
<STRONG>


Someone already tried this one?Is it working???

</STRONG>

Yeah, it works pretty good. Also decodes DivX311 format. It doesn't work on audio encoded in mp3 in Windows but the Mac DivX Player will fix up the audio and save it as a separate file and also call QT to display the DivX4 video content. If you don't have that player it is available at: http://www.mac.st/
Note that you need WMP Mac 6.3, not version 7. There is a working link to the 6.3 version on the same page as the DivX Player link.
For the earlier poster having trouble registereing at www.divx.com, don't bother to register. You can download the codec without registering. I thinnk you only need to register if you want to post on their formu. You can, however, read the forum messages without being registered.

[C.J. Moof]

Is it supposed to work with audio done in WMA format? I've downloaded a couple movies from www.archive.org/movies, and can't get an audio track to play. Quicktime opens the movie, but get Info says the audio is Unknown, Stereo, 44.1 kHz, 16 bits.

I guess I don't KNOW they're WMA, but I thought I recalled that being a known issue. If anyone knows how to get archive.org's content to play under OS X, I'd love to hear it.

Originally posted by C.J. Moof:
<STRONG>Is it supposed to work with audio done in WMA format? I've downloaded a couple movies from www.archive.org/movies, and can't get an audio track to play. Quicktime opens the movie, but get Info says the audio is Unknown, Stereo, 44.1 kHz, 16 bits.

I guess I don't KNOW they're WMA, but I thought I recalled that being a known issue. If anyone knows how to get archive.org's content to play under OS X, I'd love to hear it.</STRONG>

Don't know how to do it in OSX but the Mac DivX Player I mentioned above will take care of the sound problem if it is WMA. You may have to drop back to Classic to do it but it will work on WMA audio in avi files. Only problem will be that you will have to play the clip from the beginning unless you use the option to save the sound as an uncompressed file (AIFF). That option is also in the Movie menu of the DivX Player once you have used the DivX Doctor on the WMA track. Also, once you have it saved as an AIFF file you could open it in QT Player Pro and convert the audio to a audio format of your choice; then delete the AIFF track and ADD Scaled the new audio track you just encoded. I have done it with BladeEnc to make a MP3 track but I guess iTunes would work also.

[C.J. Moof]

Yep, the Doctor works... too bad it's a hassle to get these to run in our preferred OS than the one of the masses.

Now if I could only get archive.org to cough up more than 35 megs of a 450 meg mpeg2 video, I'd be a happy guy, but that's for a different thread....