Pseud O. Nym
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 Posted:
Tue Oct 12, 2004 5:18 pm Post subject:
Re: Philips DVP-630 (642) and DivX - flaws? |
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"MheAd" <cosibeg@hotmail.com> wrote in news:d_Dad.296$0k1.73@amstwist00:
| Quote: | This player played all DivX/XviD movies that I tried so far. However,
when playing DivX movies that are encoded in "letter box" format (slim
picture in 4:3 format), the right edge of the screen doesn't cover the
TV screen
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If you are trying to play an Xvid encoded video, don't expect it to play
correctly. I have tried about 6 or 8 Xvid encodings and they were all
totally unacceptable except for one. If they are Divx encoded they should
be fine. I know that most Xvid encoded videos have the Divx logo appear
at the beginning, but Xvid is not Divx. They are different.
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The following is a verbatim quote from the FAQ at http://www.xvid.org
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· I bought a hardware player that had 'XviD compatible' printed on the
box but it doesn't play many of my XviD files - what's that?
This is a problem we're aware of, also see our public announcement
regarding hardware devices. Up to now, we don't know of any device on the
market that would be fully compliant to XviD, so would be able to play
all XviD encoded content.
Therefore we cannot truly recommend buying any of such devices and
because of this we also never gave permission to any hardware
manufacturer so far to advertise their products as being 'XviD
compliant'. Unfortunately, even though XviD's logo and name are protected
by copyright and trademark law, nonetheless some manufacturers advertise
their products as 'XviD compliant' without auhorization.
Therefore, before buying any of such devices you should look for
information about what the devices are really capable of in order to
decide whether they really suit your needs. A good starting point for
further information and discussion is the 'hardware players' forum at
doom9.org: http://forum.doom9.net
(end of quote)
I have learned the hard way not to download any movies using bittorrent
unless they specifically state that they are something other than Xvid.
If the movie is suspicously small, it is probably Xvid so expect to watch
it on your computer .... not your stand-alone DVD player. |
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