I am searching for a DVD player.......And, I normally seem to notice that DivX is always labeled on the product's ad/description. I am more interested in XviD b/c I mostly download material in XviD format. I do know that both DivX & XviD derive from MPEG-4, but, are they interchangable?....meaning can they both play each other's format? Due to the fact that I rarely see XviD mentioned in the description, I assumed DivX can play XviD movies. Is this True? Can MPEG-4 (MP4) play both since DivX and XviD come from that family? If it can, I'll then settle for this ......
AFAIK, all players which support DivX will also support XviD. In the case of ESS Vibratto-based players, like the Philips DVP-642, which I own, XviD seems to actually work better than DivX. Maybe it's just that the xvids I have don't use custom matrices or qpel, but they seem to have fewer problems. XviD and DivX are extremely closely related though DivX is more developed and extensible. More modern, Mediatek-based players also have no problem with XviD.
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-Since half the questions here involve media problems, here ya go: Only use Verbatim or Taiyo-Yuden discs (get your TYs from Rima.com, not Supermediastore or meritline). Forget the rest, no matter what "brand" they sell under. Always burn at 4x speed regardless of the speed rating of this discs or your drive. If you have burn problems with these then you have to update your drive's firmware. For double-layer discs, only use Verbatim DVD+R DL and burn them at 2.4x speed.
