Posted by Biz on 03/23/06 20:54

As long as you use the home theater profile for encoding, divx 6 will work
fine....most if not all the dvix certified players are only certified to use
the home theater profile....that may be changing as newer products come out,
nut dont expect full divx6 compatibility on any products released prior to
the release of Divx 6
"Marmalade_man" <Marmalade_man@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> On Sat, 14 Jan 2006 19:14:44 GMT, "B. Peg" <bent_peg@worldnet.att.net>
> wrote:
> > ... Divx 6 likes to set the extension to movie.divx instead of
movie.avi.
> >Maybe to launch their own player? Anyway, I rename it to movie.avi and
it
> >seems to work on the computer and opens in Windows Media Player that way.
> >
> >Still, I cannot get a Divx 6 movie to play "with sound" on their licensed
> >Philips DVD player. >:o( Maybe it was licensed for version 5?
> >
> >B~
> That is interesting as I have the same Phillips 642/37 player and have
> no problem with DivX files that I don't alread have on my computer
> even with the extension divx, I think.
>
> I have however found that my encodes are better with XviDs and now
> consider DivX a totally second rate product. I was particularly
> frustrated with sync troubles I had with DivX 5 & 6.
>
> I found I have more control over the encodes and am able to totally
> eliminate the trouble I was having with XviDs.
>
> - Vic
>

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