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09-20-03, 07:05 PM

DivX has come out with a codec, what do you think we're encoding and viewing with?

DivX does not, and likely will not (at least in the near future) produce a player for any mobile platforms, is what you're getting at. And if they did, again, no one can say how good it would be. You yourself admit that you don't use the DivX player, you use an old WMP. An official mobile DivX player would have to go through the same development cycle that every other piece of software does. PocketMVP is no different; it is still in beta.

As for a DivX plugin for Pocket WMP - that's all fine and good if someone were to do it (assuming Pocket WMP was even designed to handle plugins), but I suspect it would only benefit WM2003 users. The multitudes with PPC2002 or less... well, we all know WMP for those platforms is less than stellar and quite inefficient... I'd hate to see how it performed with the added overhead of DivX decompression.

09-20-03, 07:05 PM	#25 (permalink)
Talyn Guest Posts: n/a	DivX has come out with a codec, what do you think we're encoding and viewing with? DivX does not, and likely will not (at least in the near future) produce a player for any mobile platforms, is what you're getting at. And if they did, again, no one can say how good it would be. You yourself admit that you don't use the DivX player, you use an old WMP. An official mobile DivX player would have to go through the same development cycle that every other piece of software does. PocketMVP is no different; it is still in beta. As for a DivX plugin for Pocket WMP - that's all fine and good if someone were to do it (assuming Pocket WMP was even designed to handle plugins), but I suspect it would only benefit WM2003 users. The multitudes with PPC2002 or less... well, we all know WMP for those platforms is less than stellar and quite inefficient... I'd hate to see how it performed with the added overhead of DivX decompression.