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Discussion in 'Safety valve' started by chriso123, Sep 28, 2002.

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  1. baabaa

    baabaa Active member

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    Good evening to all.

    It has taken me half an hour to trawl through this thread, and I tell you it is an amazing read considering what the initial subject was.
    (Should be an international reward available somewhere or guiness book of records)

    Hi I,m in the UK and 28 for now (until another year.. sweeps past my eyes, any ideas how to stop this - re-encode or rip?

    My dad is getting into MPEG4 big time, he's been to countless seminars and reckons this thing is going to take off in a big way as he says the compressability is amazing and I would just like to hear of anyone elses views (and also to change the topic again)
     
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  2. VCDjunkie

    VCDjunkie Moderator Staff Member

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    MPEG4 has been around for a while, more commonly known as DivX. There are a few DVD players which now support DivX 4 or later, so who knows, maybe the industry will start accepting the fact that DivX is not going away and start producing movies with MPEG4 compression on DVD.

    If you guys think I make tons of money, then I have news for you! I still haven't got the raise I deserve yet, so I may be looking for work soon because I'm sick of working my ass off for peanuts!

    Oh, and my job is still stressful, only slightly less..

    ;-)
     
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  3. Dela

    Dela Administrator Staff Member

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    awwwwww poor vcd!!! maybe afterdawn should start paying you for your moderator service eh?? :p

    DivX kicks ass!!! I would like to see more vcd/svcd releases of movies though. I know there are always releases of them but thats movies that are just fresh in the cinema wheras the good old classic films always come in divx/xvid format which means you have to re-encode all the time. And that sucks. So I wouldn't mind a divx compatible standalone I can tell you that!!
     
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  4. chriso123

    chriso123 Regular member

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    I bet that in a few years time most DVD players will support DivX.
     
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  5. Dela

    Dela Administrator Staff Member

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    Yep, its just a matter of time!!
     
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  6. VCDjunkie

    VCDjunkie Moderator Staff Member

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    major manufacturers are going to be under lots of pressure from the film industry to NOT produce DivX compatible players, so for the time being expect to only see rinky-dink no-name brand DivX DVD players.. Not to mention the fact that they may be afraid of being sued by the film industry! unfortunately, they have good lawyers and lots of money and tend to like suing people for stupid reasons!
     
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  7. Dela

    Dela Administrator Staff Member

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    Ye I noticed that about them VCD!! However I dont see the crime in making a dvd player mpeg-4 compatible!
     
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  8. chriso123

    chriso123 Regular member

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    On the box they could just say:

    -Supports DivX (Allows you to play family videos in the DivX format)

    and not get sued.
     
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  9. Dela

    Dela Administrator Staff Member

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    Ye Chris but making a standalone divx compatible isnt a crime anyway!!
     
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  10. chriso123

    chriso123 Regular member

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    I know but that would stand as very firm evidence in court.
     
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  11. Dela

    Dela Administrator Staff Member

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    I know but mpeg4 is not illegal so why bother?? lol
     
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  12. VCDjunkie

    VCDjunkie Moderator Staff Member

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    DivX would be good to have for a DVD player, but even better would be a DVD player that allows you to install your own codecs! Then, you could do DivX 3,4,5, XviD, etc.. Now that would be cool!

    I would just like to say that I am officially on vacation this week, and will be out of town for a few days.. guys, have fun and don't do anything I would do!

    I'll smoke a big fatty for you all..

    ;-)~
     
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  13. chriso123

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    That's probably the best idea for DVD player manufacturers. Imagine that, it would be completely foreward compatible. You could even create your own codec.
     
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  14. Dela

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    tut tut tut vcd!! stealing my suggestion from months ago on the forum when we were du=iscussing divx compatibility now are we??? i believe i copyrighted that, you're sued!! :p Just kiddin man, i'd love to see a dvd player that supports new codecs.
     
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  15. chriso123

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    They will be foreward compatible apart from blu-ray technology. (Forgot to mention that).
     
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  16. Dela

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    I believe the kiss player does a very good job, must take a look!
     
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  17. Liquid86

    Liquid86 Guest

    Hi all...I'm new to afterdawn but I already love it, anyway to reply to the initial thread, I'm 18. Hope everyone has a lovely day!
     
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  18. Dela

    Dela Administrator Staff Member

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    Welcome to aD and remember, feel free to change the subject of this forum over and over again!! =)
     
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  19. chriso123

    chriso123 Regular member

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    Wasn't that the first DivX compatible player out?

    Also welcome to the forums Liquid.
     
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  20. Liquid86

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    Thanks for the welcome...anyway isn't there some way to mod an existing DVD player to play DivX...say anyone remember the failed Circuit City dial-in DivX thinger...good concept...aweful exectution!
     
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