[MPlayer-users] Question on DivX versions...

[Rainer Hantsch]

Thanks a lot for this information. Now I understand better.


On Tue, 10 May 2005, RC wrote:

| On Tue, 10 May 2005 10:05:05 +0200 (CEST)
| Rainer Hantsch <office at hantsch.co.at> wrote:
|
| >
| > What's about XVID ? Many movies are available in this format. To which
| > version of DivX is XVID compatible or can be compared with? Or is it
| > totally different?
|
| Well, Xvid (and lavc) has advanced features just like Divx5 does, so
| they are comparable, though I'm not certain they are fully compatible.
| If you disable the more advanced features, and stick to simple profile
| (either for Xvid, lavc or Divx5) all of them should should be playable
| by any decoder (Divx 5/4/3, Xvid 1.x/0.x, Quicktime, etc).
|
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mfg

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