09-12-2007, 10:00 AM
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Developer & Designer, News Editor Emeritus
Join Date: Aug 2006
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DivX Mobile Revisited
"DivX, Inc. (NASDAQ IVX) today announced the launch of a program that will enable consumers to easily discover, share and playback high-quality video on a variety of mobile devices. The centerpiece of the DivX� mobile solution is a comprehensive licensing and testing program that ensures a high-quality media experience for increasingly powerful mobile phones. Joining over 100 million DivX Certified� products including DVD players and other living room devices, DivX partner Samsung Electronics has already released the first DivX Certified mobile handsets. Additionally, DivX launched a beta mobile content and software solution that enables consumers to experience high-quality video content across the PC, the living room and on-the-go. By utilizing DivX Converter, a one-step video software application available on DivX.com, users can easily convert virtually any digital video into a "DivX Mobile" video that is compatible with any DivX Certified mobile device. Consumers who do not own a DivX Certified mobile device can download the beta DivX Mobile Player (mobile.divx.com) which will support the playback of DivX content on certain mobile devices. The DivX mobile offering also includes a beta version of a video content site (mm.divx.com) where consumers can easily browse and enjoy high-quality DivX videos from a variety of sources formatted for direct viewing on a DivX enabled mobile device."
It's been an age since we last posted on DivX Mobile. The company recently announced that the program is progressing and that the first wave of DivX Certified mobile devices have already hit the market. Unfortunately, that doesn't include most current-day Pocket PCs and Smartphones, but we're not out of luck. The DivX Mobile player, which supports all flavours of Windows Mobile from 2003 to 6, can be downloaded from here. And of course, there are always third-party solutions such as CorePlayer. If you give the former a spin, be sure to post your thoughts here.
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09-12-2007, 01:41 PM
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Sage
Join Date: Aug 2006
Posts: 676
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I gave the DivX Mobile Player for ppc a try and didn't much like it.
(1) No Landscape support (full screen video plays in landscape, but the app itself always launches in portrait)
(2) Very limited controls
(3) Couldn't figure out how to hide the scrubber bar when playing fullscreen video (distracting)
(4) Don't have any quantitative results (because DivX Mobile Player doesn't have performance stats), but video seems choppy compared to the same file watched in TCPMP.
This was on a Glofiish x500 (QVGA). Still need to test it on my Toshiba e830 (VGA).
I was hoping they might have a player that lets me play higher bitrate DivX videos without frames dropping, but seems like I'll be sticking with TCPMP and CorePlayer.
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