Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 to support DivX?
Posted on 13/11/07 16:58 by Jan Willem                             
Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 to support DivX?

Of course you would love to be able to play your *cough* backupped movies that you somehow managed to get in the DivX format from the internet on your console. Untill now this seems to have always been an utopia, but DivX has announced that the Sony Playstation will support the DivX format soon. Good news as of course DivX is a popular format and watching movies on a console is usually pretty convenient.

Also Xbox 360 owners have been waiting for this feature and while there is no official release yet, but a DivX official has been hinting that they are negotiating with Microsoft on such a deal.

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By Afterburner (guest), Tue 13 Nov 2007 17:15
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Another good reason to prefer the PS over the Xbox, Blu-ray and Divx loveit
By ivid, Tue 13 Nov 2007 18:15
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BRING IT ON Hopefully with automatic Xvid support as they are usually interchangeable..
By ivid, Tue 13 Nov 2007 18:20
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Re Afterburner post. And a crappy selction of games ! Why anyone would want a PS3 over a 360 with today's amazing 360 game library is beyond me, unless its for the high-risk of getting a blu-ray player.
By jackjones (guest), Tue 13 Nov 2007 20:04
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@IVID...Another Sony Basher why don't you just admit that the PS3 is way ahead of the Xbox.
By SpeedyJDK, Tue 13 Nov 2007 21:04
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Let PS3 support x264 and i'll get one :P, WII Ownz you all Smilie
By DukeNukem, Tue 13 Nov 2007 21:08
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DukeNukem@ jackjones Relax, man. Ivid is just expressing his opinion and perhaps some fact. Speaking of facts, why not supply some to back up your crazy statement. Just because you say the PS3 is better than the Xbox360 doesn't make it so. Prove it. And next time, please use proper punctuation and capitalization. And just for the record, yes, I'm also a $ony basher. clown
By DukeNukem, Tue 13 Nov 2007 21:09
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DukeNukem@ SpeedyJDK I think we're all waiting for a hardware x264 player.
By u_n_s97, Tue 13 Nov 2007 23:19
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Good that I buy consoles for playing games.. Seems like $ony fanboys bought a 500-600 bucks DivX player. puke Good luck with their toys as decent PS3 games are rare so they have to spend their time somehow. devil regards, Stephen
By FidelC, Wed 14 Nov 2007 02:31
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FidelC@DukeNukem Mandatory Video codecs MPEG-4 AVC (H.264) / VC-1 / MPEG-2 --- from Wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HD_DVD so there is a chance x.264 is supported but I dont know for sure. loveit
This message was edited at: 14-11-2007 02:33
By nastydred, Wed 14 Nov 2007 04:07
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They should have been supported the format.
By DukeNukem, Wed 14 Nov 2007 05:33
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DukeNukemDoes anyone know if H.264 is the same as x264?
By DukeNukem, Wed 14 Nov 2007 05:35
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DukeNukem@ FidelC Thanks for the tip. I'm looking at getting a 42" or 50" LCD TV after Christmas and it would be great if I could get an HD DVD player to play x264 files from DVD. Smilie
By lui_gough, Wed 14 Nov 2007 07:57
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x264 is a CODEC! it's the software that produces a MPEG-4 AVC (MPEG 4 Part 10) aka H.264 "video stream" .... your files are probably "containered" in an AVI file (which holds the audio stream as well) or a MP4 container ..... which is not the same "formatting" as a HD-DVD/BluRay disc. It could be possible to have software make it playable because the codec that will need to decode it is the same - it just needs to "understand" the container to get the data it needs to decode.
By GeileStoeptegel (guest), Wed 14 Nov 2007 08:01
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> Does anyone know if H.264 is the same as x264? h264 is the name for the codec, x264 is one of the implementations of that codec.
By DukeNukem, Wed 14 Nov 2007 14:55
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DukeNukemThanks for the info.
By ADz (guest), Wed 14 Nov 2007 18:58
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Who uses DivX nowadays anyway, its just a commercial codec. XviD is the #1 movie codec at the mo with x264 coming slose up behind. Luckily 90% or more MPEG4 players play XviD aswell as it more or less the same as DivX anyway.
By DukeNukem, Wed 14 Nov 2007 19:48
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DukeNukem@ ADz Just a commercial codec? What's wrong with a commercial product? You make "commercial" sound like "cancer".
By Witchdoctor (guest), Fri 16 Nov 2007 06:39
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Can we say ConvertX2DVD...... It works wonders with my DivX backups...... They play on every dvd player I've tried them on....
By cd pirate, Fri 16 Nov 2007 11:00
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cd pirateAnyone who bashes the Sony, remember this: GT5 and MGS4 = Win. As for Xvid and Divx, who cares, I hook my LCD up to my PC and watch things far easier and hassle free like this. No point in having it play on the console. Also, so many DVD players already support this so I don't see what the fuss is about.
By a512kx, Fri 16 Nov 2007 17:44
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The Xbox 360 update coming on December 2nd will include support for DivX. I myself don't have a TV in the same room as my Mac so I stream all my content to my Xbox. Can't wait for the update, I won't have to spend all my time converting file formats to something my Xbox reads as most of my stuff is already DivX.
By russbelluk, Sat 17 Nov 2007 11:26
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can u hook up a ps3 to vista or xp media center edition and stream music, and videos I THINK NOT. u can already stream all formats to xbox by using transcode360 anyway,

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