Comments on: DivX not happy with third party 360 support

By: Retroid

Retroid — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:55:49 +0000

Yup, 360 would play 1upShow flawlessly, PS3 would turn its nose up at anything in that format.

By: OrphanageExplosion

OrphanageExplosion — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:39:58 +0000

And the 360 plays some MPEG4 ASP content the PS3 doesn’t (and vice-versa) which speaks volumes about how worthless DivX ‘certification’ is.

Similarly the new DivX HD ‘standard’ uses the .MKV container but isn’t compatible with all h264 .MKVs, making that a total waste of time too.

By: rainer

rainer — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 18:00:37 +0000

Wow that guy’s got some nerve as if DivX owns the standard (it doesn’t).

MPEG-4 ASP is the video standard which DivX is based off and there’s is a commercial implementation.

XviD in an open source implementation of the same standard.

3vix/NeroDigital ASP are both commercial implementations.

All Microsoft did is build their own MPEG-4 ASP decoder (equivalent to XviD’s profile) and integrate that into the Xbox 360 and DivX have the nerve to bitch that MS aren’t paying them so they can call it DivX (Microsoft like all others must pay the MPEG LA royalties for using the codecs).

By: Retroid

Retroid — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:27:30 +0000

Both are decent with Divx / Xvid, never made sense to me why the 360 refuses to play MPEG & the PS3 doesn’t support M4V (1up Show).

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:18:16 +0000

I don’t even bother trying to rely on the PS3 / 360 codec support. I let Tversity worry about all that crap (and maybe PS3 Mediaserver when I eventually get around to trying it).

By: patlike

patlike — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:14:33 +0000

Over Christmas, I shot some video on a camcorder, imported it to my PC hard drive using Vista and then tried to play it back wirelessly on both my 360 and PS3 and neither would play it.

*thumbs*

By: Tiger Walts

Tiger Walts — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:11:07 +0000

The 360 doesn’t really fully support any of the codecs it can use, even their own. I can only guess that MS want to restrict to only functionality that they’ve fully tested themselves, they’re probably paranoid about buffer overflow exploits or something.

Can’t see them shifting on that stance any time soon, they’ve resisted allowing keyboard use outside of the dash and guide and don’t allow mice full stop. They’ll improve it, but only at the rate they are happy with.

By: scuz

scuz — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 16:09:57 +0000

microsoft are wangs and divx are skint.

By: Retroid

Retroid — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:55:23 +0000

Ah, now I see.

(Didn’t seem that important when I read the article, but now I’ve had another coffee)

I think he’s getting at some of the point of their branding is an obligation to support (and update?) the standard, aswell as standard market recognition.

By: Psychotext

Psychotext — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:53:32 +0000

Not really sure I understand this… DivX are basically not happy that MS have the functionality, support the codec but don’t slap their branding all over the place?

By: Mike

Mike — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:40:12 +0000

Added a bit more.

By: Retroid

Retroid — Mon, 19 Jan 2009 15:37:47 +0000

Interesting. Not sure what he means by third party, though, is he talking about Divx or the other codecs?

I’d love the 360 to support MKV as part of Divx7, as will hopefully happen with the PS3 ^___^