The creation and playback of DivX video has never been easier for Mac users. The new DivX Converter and DivX codec put you in control of your media. Convert nearly any digital video to DivX. Easily burn or transfer your DivX files to watch them on any DivX certified player. Take your DivX videos wherever your path may lead.
DivX 6 for Mac includes:
• DivX Converter:
– Drag and drop your videos to DivX in one step
– Batch encode multiple files to DivX
– Customize your videos with the advanced encoding settings of the DivX codec
• DivX codec:
– Get the highest quality, performance and compression from your digital videos
-Output DivX video from within QuickTime Pro or any application with QuickTime export capabilities (e.g., iMovie, Final Cut Pro)
• DivX playback support:
– Enjoy high-quality DivX video with QuickTime 6 or 7 on Mac OS X 10.3 or later
– Burn a disc of your DivX files to watch on any certified DVD player
DivX 6 for Mac comes with the DivX codec (with a free 6-month trial of Pro features) and a free 15-day trial of the DivX Converter. You must purchase DivX 6 for Mac (US$19.99) if you wish to continue using DivX Converter or the Pro features of the DivX codec after your trial periods expire. The ability to play and encode DivX videos with the DivX codec does not expire at any time.
More info and download link here.
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this is hardly the time or the place to be talking about superbowl 40
^ Toke much today?
what is divx? is that like video ts files, like mac the ripper?
i would like to know as well. anyone.
Does anyone know if this new DivX codec also includes XviD capability?
No, I believe it will let your mac play many differnet codecs that QT can not.
Please correct me if I am wrong.
I have QT pro 7.?? and I have a problem when i create a .mov file from different movie clips. what I am trying to do is cut N paste several mpeg 2 files and make it into one big .mov file. I can achieve this though a back breaking process of select all, cut and paste in QT pro but i find that once i have complied and saved the final movie (in a .mov file format) the movie often crashes my QT on playback. Also some parts dont even play. Any suggestions? Do i need more memory? i monitored memory and cpu usage during playback when the movie hangs and crashes, and it indicated no signs of me requiring more memory.
I am new to apple any help would be nice.
Other than that I love OSX and all their software. It was an easy decision to buy and use.
thanks
the new guy.
What is DIVX? LOL
to those who asked above:
divx is a codec (acronym for COmpressor-DECompressor) that allows you to play and create videos that have far better compression (thus, smaller file sizes) than older standards like MPEG-2 (the codec used for DVD video). divx is a very mature codec and performance is very good (as opposed to H.264, which offers better quality in the same filesize but takes a lot more horsepower to encode or decode) – any G4 or a faster G3 can play back a near-DVD quality divx file, and faster/newer G4 systems can actually play HD quality divx! hope this answers your questions. if not, just check out their website for more info: http://www.divx.com.
as for whether or not it is compatible with xvid, i’d have to say i doubt it – xvid and divx are, from my experience, pretty separate entities on a mac (they use two separate .component files). could be wrong, though. =)
thanks matt, for answering my question and for not making fun of my lack of knowledge on this subject. i have seen the way some people on this site riddicule others and i wasnt sure if i should bother but you have proved me wrong. keep it up
thanks again
for my money i don’t know if it gets any better than when michael bolton sings “when a man loves a woman”
Now I can have DivX enabled all the time without Classic refusing to boot-up!
For playback, what are the advantages to installing this instead of just using VLC?
people using front row can now watch divx movies without the slow, irksome divx fusion! wOOt!!
If you want to watch Xvid files in QuickTime, then you can dowload the 3ivx plugin http://www.3ivx.com/download/index.html which is a similar plugin to DivX.
As to the advantages over using VLC, well sometimes VLC is a little smoother at playing back files that QuickTime can’t nornally play. But with a fast system, I cant see that being an issue. It basically just means that you have the nice QuickTime interface to view DivX files. Although if you want fullscreen playback for free then stick with VLC!
Mr. Question, Try iMovie instead of QuickTime. I haven’t used it myself, but I was in an Apple Store once and I noticed they were giving iMovie lessons in the auditorium. It looked like the instructor was demonstrating what you are describing.
HandBrake all the way!
http://handbrake.m0k.org/
I started the download it but got a little worried; why didn’t it notify me that it is an application? Because it is just the installer? Then why do I have to quit all running appliactions and log off? Maybe stupid, ignorant questions, but I just like to stay that way instead of doing something which might interfere with my system more than I would like.
Any info on this?
wilhil wrote: Then why do I have to quit all running appliactions and log off?
You have to log off because QuickTime plug-ins (which is essentially what DivX is) only load at start-up.
And it didn’t ask for a password or warn you about an application because the DivX package isn’t an application, it’s a package file that (still requires user intervention to install) that only loads a plug-in on your machine.
Thanks, Tommy Boy:) You put my worried mind at ease and hopefully others, too!
Oh I get it. Lemme be a part of this: W.T.F. is DIVX? Why would anyone need a codec when they have iMovie? Or QuickTime? Especially Pro. Tell me quick, I’m dying to know too. Man I got all confuzed when I selected category video in macupdate.com once — all those funny sounding apps (B.L.T., ffTexMex, MovieCrate, sub2sink, dub2crt…). I can unner’stand WMV – the windows porn player, or QuickTime (trailers or apple-events that only play in yesterday’s updated version of the player).
If only the iPod would play divx. It might be technically possible given that it is MPEG4. Maybe Apple disabled the ability to play Divx though.
does this mean i can play my divx (or xvid? i dunno what type they are) in itunes?
I’m glad the iPod can’t play DivX
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It’s really about time for DivX to go the way of the do do. Sure, if I’ve got an antiquated system, it may play better, BUT it can’t play on my iPod so I’ve got no use for it. It even requires a special player, so I’m not using it for web content either.
There’s just really no place for it, they realize that, which is why they’ve been courting the pirating market for years (getting dvd player manufacturers to include support so you can play those movies you’ve pirated on your tv). I wonder how much they had to PAY that company to include DivX support to try to make it “sound” legitimate??
Now that people are BUYING content online, they’re going to use what works, and for now, that’s MPEG 4.