DivX 6.0 - The Big Question

Hi everyone. I have a bit of a problem and I hope you guys can help me settle it.

I have multiple DivX movies on my hard drive and I want to burn them onto CD's/DVD's. I plan to purchase a standalone DVD player that will play the DivX format. The problem is that every single DVD player I see will only play up to DivX version 5. If some of my movies have been encoded to the new DivX version 6 - will they play on my standalone DVD player?

If not, is there a way to re-encode a DivX version 6 movie back to version 5?

I'm pretty new to DivX so any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks!

 

DivX 5.x = ASP MPEG-4, DivX 6.x = ASP MPEG-4. They are basically the same thing, the fourCC is still the same to. What is new with DivX6 is the DivX media format, this is however backwards compatible with avi. So no issues there either.

Should point out that when I say the same, I mean that they both conform to the same specs. There are of course quality improvements, etc. between DivX 5 & 6.

 

Hi. Thanks for the info. I think I understand. So basically if I buy a DivX player that says it will play DivX 5.x, there will be no issues with playing a movie in DivX 6.x format?

 

That is correct. I guess it is possible that not all players recognise the .divx extension though.

 

Exactly what I needed. Thank you!

 

@ celtic_d..Quick question..been seeing a lot of x264 pop up lately,supposed to be better quality,also I think I read that it's not compatable with todays Divx Players.Is this true

 

Most definetly, right now the only place you can play h264 is with a software player on your computer.

 

Exactly. x264 is an implimentation of AVC aka H.246 aka MPEG-4 Part 10. XviD/DivX are MPEG-4 Part 2. The two are not compatible.

The only current hardware support really is XBox via XBMC, Pocket PC's via TCPMP, etc. Also the iPod video (basline profile only) and PSP (Main Profile I think?). DVD players with AVC support should start appearing soonish though. Also AVC is a composory part of HDDVD and BluRay specs I think. So even if the first discs are MPEG-2 only, the players at least should support AVC.

But yes, I think we will start to see a lot more x264 encoded mp4's and mkv's. Hopefully we don't start seeing avi's. Time to make a clean break from that I say.