Well for one thing, it will play back on a bunch of hardware devices including my PS3, the DVD player in my bedroom, my small Archos media player.

For another, the codec is efficient enough to play back HD smoothly on an old Pentium 3 laptop we have around the house.

A third thing is that the encode seems to be way quicker than anything else and is pretty foolproof as far as the configuration settings go if you use the little encoder application.

DivX is making a major push into firmware/hardware - I think this is worth a looksee.

I was as bummed as the next guy when Stage6 shut down, however, I would not count DivX out when it comes to that line of service. Sometimes a business needs to cut their losses and pull out, regroup and go from there.

With that being said, blip.tv allows up to 1 gig per file of divx or almost any other file type and you can embed it and link to it and it encodes to flash and uploads to your myspace and facebook pages if you want it to.

j razz

divx should have been utilised in HD camcorders...

Since so much of my work revolves around internet content distribution for news and online documentaries (streaming media content), I see DivX as a niche platform as stated for hardware devices.

Maybe it's worth reconsidering but my plate is so full right now, I barely have time to think about anything else.

Cliff Etzel - Solo Video Journalist
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