News Archive for 02/12/07

Choose an article from the archive listing on this page or refine your selection using the controls in the gray box below.

Apps: 3ivx Delta 4, DivX Doctor, Thoth...

12/07, 8:40pm

Apps: 3ivx Delta 4, DivX Doctor, Thoth...

Happy Machines has released 3ivx Delta 4 PR2, an update to its high-quality MPEG-4 codec that now offers "faster, better" compression and higher quality: "The 3ivx decoder plays back most MPEG-4 variants (including DivX 3,4 and 5, Apple MPEG-4, Philips MPEG-4 and XviD). The 3ivx decoder produces noticeably higher quality video than other decoders due to its high quality post-processing filters, and because of its core design and optimization maintains a record-breaking decode speed." It runs on Mac OS 8/9/X. [752KB]
DivX Doctor II v2.1 "updates .avi videos to 3ivx QuickTime (.mov) videos. After the conversion you will be able to play the video smoothly, and the audio glitches inherrant in the AVI format will be fixed." [271KB]
Mac MPEG-2 Decoder b8 is an open-source application that converts MPEG-2 files to 3ivx D4 PR2 under Mac OS. [168KB]
Thoth 1.5.10 adds support for inline audio/video and a "Expire Active Connections After" setting to the $25 shareware usenet news-reader. The update also corrects a number of bugs, including one whereby completed files would still be marked as "incomplete." Thoth is available for both Mac OS 9 and OS X. [Download - Classic (CarbonLib 1.0.4), OS X (CarbonLib 1.4.0 or OS X)]