DivX is not 100% in love with Xbox 360's tone right now, or its unofficial codec support
By Richard Lawler 
posted Jan 21st 2009 2:58PM
posted Jan 21st 2009 2:58PM
In case you haven't noticed, official DivX support has become a part of many consumer electronics platforms over the last few years -- but not the Xbox 360. While it will play back many files with DivX and Xvid encoding, DivX VP Jerome Vashist-Rota is still "not very happy" that Microsoft's console works off of unofficial third party support, unlike the DivX Certified PlayStation 3. Of course, considering DivX's history as a reverse engineered version of Microsoft's own MPEG-4 codec some choppiness is to be expected so it's hard to say if that will ever change but let us throw in one more (probably fruitless) request for MKV playback while we're at it.[Via Xbox 360 Fanboy & 1UP]
HAHA. The reverse engineering thief that is DivX is throwing rocks in a glass house.
Translation: We want MS to pay us monies!
mkv is the future now!!!!!!!
I stole this from you, want to buy it back?
Moron
did it completely copy?? because I got that error as well and simply recopied the file and it worked fine.....usually when it cant read a file it just says "Unsupported Data"
PS3 still has it's flaws with DivX codecs. even with the 2.60 update, I encoded something with a PAID DivX PRO codec... works great on the computer... results on the PS3?
"This data is corrupt"
*sigh* and sadly, it works fine on the 360 (tested it on a friends console)
did it completely copy?? because I got that error as well and simply recopied the file and it worked fine.....usually when it cant read a file it just says "Unsupported Data"
DivX is old, crusty and godawful. It pains me to know that people actually use it actively today.
amen
Exactly. If I'm going to spend any time to encode video today, I'll do it in AVCHD format. It is supported by all new Blu Ray players and PS3.
Since I don't download movies, Divx support means nothing to me. Give us AVCHD, Microsoft!
In case you didn't know, all new HD camcorders that use HDD or flash drive creats AVCHD natively.
Media Center extender sessions from Windows 7 have native support for *.m2ts files. While there's a bug with all AC3 playback in the Extender session that prevents .m2ts files from being useful, it is a beta, and once that gets fixed, the m2ts files from your AVCHD camera will play on a 360.
3 questions...
do you have a 360?
do you have win 7 beta?
do you know how to mux to a .m2ts container?
if you do, you can stream your AVCHD to your 360.
Damn you David! I was typing while on the phone, and thus was too slow! while I know about the ac3 bug, good job including it. I fail...
I have Win 7 beta and know it supports AVC codec. I also have XBox 360. But the Win7 beta is at my work place so it can't be accessed by XBox 360.
IIRC, XBox 360 has some limitation on AVC support as well.
What I really want is not AVC codec file support but AVCHD formated disc support. That is you can pop in your AVCHD disc to XBox 360 and it automatically starts playing (just like DVD). You can do today with a lot of BD players (but not PS3).
AVCHD is hit and miss. Better to encode or remux into .mp4 for the time being for best cross-device support. If/when divx7 takes off you can then mux into .mkv. Oh for a single cross-platform standard for all this stuff...
I haven't found anything to convert TO ... AVCHD. is there a mac friendly encoder out there?
I've had one case where the codecs that come with Windows 7 wouldn't play a Divx encoded file. Don't know how old the rip was but once I installed the standard Divx on Win7 it worked just fine. Still wouldn't play on the 360 though.
Is there anyway to grab Ballmer by the face and ask for MKV support? Add that and some real online service instead of just MSN garbage and Media Center could really take off...
Call me a DivX fanboy, but... using Sony Vegas Pro 8.0 and encoding HD files, DivX gives me better image quality *AND* reduces encoding time 30% - 70%. I believe it's using DivX 6.8.5, but I have it running in the backround right now on a 6 hour encode, so I can't check to be sure.
Without DivX's "reverse engineering", I doubt we'd be anywhere close to where we are today with MPEG4, H.264, XviD, AVCHD, etc. When this codec first came out, it was unsupported and largely unusable.
For anyone having problems playing back DivX files on the PS3, I'd suggest experimenting with the encoding settings. Your encoder might be defaulting to an unsupported resolution, unsupported interlace or deinterlace, etc.
I have next to nothing in Divx at this point. MKV please.
That is NOT a codec, try this: http://tinyurl.com/c7w2kf
Note, he said nothing about supporting the MKV codec, just supporting MKV in general. As far as I know, MKV is the most popular way to wrap HD video and 5.1 audio, at the expense of film and television studios.
That's probably why neither Sony or Microsoft are considering supporting the format in their respective consoles, it would probably kill their video download stores without fail.
MKV ftw.
That is NOT a codec, try this: http://tinyurl.com/c7w2kf
Remain calm. I didn't say it was. I am stating mkv support is what I want.
Try decaf.
David:
We heard you the first time. We understand MKV is a container not a codec. We don't care what the difference is. We just want MKV support on the Xbox.
I hope the people who are cheering MKV realize that MKV is just a container. Like your mom told you, it's what on the inside that matters.
Exactly mkv support means nothing by itself. People think that mkv support means their random bootleg anime movies are suddenly going to play on a divx7 certified device. If divx7 says specifies avc and aac audio through mkv then that is all you can ever hope your device will support. Some devices like the ps3 or 360 might also toss in support for other codecs (e.g. vc1, ac3) but if its outside of the divx7 spec you are entirely at the whims of the individual vendor whether they bother or not.
Sounds like some of you guys don't know that Divx 7 supports MKV? MKV is just a container, not a codec. Divx 7 also supports H.264, but unfortunately it is not the same H.264 profile as is used for Bluray and AVCHD, so those still have to be transcoded to be compatible with Divx 7.
Indeed MKV is just a container, but if PS3 supports XviD, DivX, H.264... why not the 'container' MKV?
PS3 is "Divx certified", but that doesn't include the features of Divx 7. I believe "Divx Plus HD" certification is what corresponds to Divx 7 and would include MKV support.
I think the ps3 will get divx7 eventually. It already supports virtually all of the component parts, it just needs to be able to read them from a mkv stream and get itself certified.
Dear Divx...
Go kick rocks... thaaaaanks
Me