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whoombat
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_ 		22. October 2005 @ 04:46 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
I've heard it a couple of times before that you can get your divx player to play xvid by updatind the firmware or something. I was just wondering if anyone could shed some light on this topic because i actually have a divx player and it's annoying converting all the videos to divx before buring. If anyone could offers some links or anything that would be great!

PS if you know of a way to get non-divx players to play divx files that would be great also!
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celtic_d
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_ 		23. October 2005 @ 20:49 _ Link to this message    Send private message to this user   
DivX is ASP MPEG-4 (5.x and 6.x anway), XviD is also ASP MPEG-4. If something can decode DivX, it can also decode XviD. Unsupported features like qpel and GMC are a different matter and indipendant of whether it is DivX, XviD, libavcodec or whatever.

Problem is that most players only support the AVI container (also .DivX, however that is basically avi) and in AVI video streams have a FourCC which tells the decoder what it is. DivX 5/6 uses DX50, XviD uses XviD. If they player doesn't support XviD's FourCC then it won't recognise the video. Solution is to change the FourCC to DX50.

I can only ever recall hearing of one player that didn't support XviD's FourCC. All others supported it out of the box, no need for firmware updates.

If a player doesn't have a chipset that can handle MPEG-4 then it can't decode DivX. Now I guess it is possible that a regular DVD player could have such a chipset, but a firmware with it disabled. I find that unlikely though especially if it was an older player.
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