Thinking About On-The-Fly DivX to WMV9 Transcoding

re: Thinking About On-The-Fly DivX to WMV9 Transcoding

casey chesnut — Mon, 16 Jan 2006 00:08:24 GMT

Chris, does this help?
http://www.brains-N-brawn.com/mceDivX360/

will be able to do better when the Vista SDK comes out.

Thanks,
casey

re: Thinking About On-The-Fly DivX to WMV9 Transcoding

Griffon — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 20:31:19 GMT

*snort* if that where true there would already have been blood in the water over it, but that is not what it's about. It's about supporting the most open standards, and most importantly giving folks what they want which is ways to use the data they have today... Not sending them off ot wast effort and resource on building work around to escape another proprietary trap. I have no connection to either company so I have no buy in bias, one only has to look at what is being to done to determine who is shafting who. MS was only one of the companies involved with the MPEG standards though so off hand the anti divx pdf is pretty heavily biased (just at a glance, mmm accusatory, inflammatory and utterly lacking in factual evidence). But there should be support for H.264, xvid then if not Divx etc. Hell it should support .mov for all that. What is not ok is saying this is extender to your media center but oh yeah you have to re-encode all your data and loose quality and everything in the process to make it work. Nobody is really selling mp3 cd's in retail yet that is supported just fine (going back to the other silly MS argument that was posed).

re: Thinking About On-The-Fly DivX to WMV9 Transcoding

McoreD — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 03:12:08 GMT

How dare you talk like that bushibot@gmail.com when DivX, in simple words, a stolen technology from Microsoft? http://microsoftuse.temp.powweb.com/mcored/research/divx/antidivx.pdf

re: Thinking About On-The-Fly DivX to WMV9 Transcoding

bushibot@gmail.com — Mon, 19 Dec 2005 02:45:24 GMT

What a ridiculous amount of totally unneeded effort by a untold number of people all so MS can make a market share grab with their crappy proprietary platform, it's just sad. This whole thing combined with the lack of 360 availability drove me back to MythTV and using a old laptop as extender that just just enough oomph to put out HD. This whole issue only exists because of greed and as consumers we really shouldn't reward it by working around the real problem they created for them.