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http://www.macnn.com/articles/01/12/14/native.divx/

Native DivX 4.11a player for Mac OS 9, OS X

updated 09:35 am EST, Fri December 14, 2001

 
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A MacNN reader notes that divx.com now has released a native DivX 4.11 alpha player/decoder for the Mac. "...this is something we've all been waiting for quite sometime. Audio doesn't seem to work as of yet, but I think they're working on it. The package contains the codec for both Mac OS 9 and OS X."


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  1. Joined:

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    bad link

    great news! unfortunately, the link (at least for me) on the DivX page downloads a file with a .php extension that BBedit tries to open.

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    re: bad link

    drag the .php file on top of a stuffit alias and see what happens

  1. KickUinDaNuts

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    Make the audio work

    Go and sign the Quicktime/AVI Petition to make the audio work!!!

    http://www.petitiononline.com/qtavi/petition.html

  1. birdman

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    12/14, 11:32am | report spam | Reply |

    not so new

    Well, there are already various DivX decoders for Mac (both 9 and X) -- some as codecs for Quicktime, others that convert DivX to QT. What we really need is something that can do *audio* as well (the one I have for X only decodes the audio if it's mp3, but all the DivX movies I can find have WMA).

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    yes so new

    it is the best quality codec out there.

  1. X Freedom

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    Yea right!

    First off this download dosn't work! After filling out the form your sent to http://www.divx.com/divx/index.php umm okay where is the DL? Nothing happens!

    Oh and people stop posting Petitions please. Most of them tend to be lame anyways... as pointed out by someone most audio in divx files have WMA for sound. What does that mean for apple? Nothing... it means people are using MS closed audio codec. So what do you do tell people to encode audio as MP3 or someting... anyway the "Real" DivX decoder that most people use and think works well is the Jamby DivX decoder which works on most... if not all divx files... and has reported that apple is working on some audio probles with divx movies. End result making the petition seem like it worked but had no effect.

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    ??

    When I try to move the component to the Library folder it tells me that it cannot be moved because Quicktime cannot be modified???? What gives

  1. mr100percent

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    for audio issues

    to fix the audio issues, check out DivX.jamby.net for a DiVX decoder. It takes the file, and copies it into a new .mov with the video (but you still need the DivX codec (also availible))

    Also, Versiontracker has a list of divx audio converters, see the link.

  1. KickUinDaNuts

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    Petition and jamby codec

    Firstly, the petition is definately necessary. Apple has been "about to fix" this problem for a long, long time now. Secondly, the jamby codec is not THE divx codec. It is the port of ffmpeg into a quicktime component, and it only works for OSX. The codec talked about in this article is THE divx codec, as it comes from Divx Networks, Inc and sports the same code base as the Windows version.

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    Re: Petition and jamby co

    Apple is leaving 9.x behind and so should users and developers... its fine for people with older computers… like a few I own… but that’s another topic… saying this codec is better than the jamby codec is nonsense just because jamby is OS X only.

    Now for the good stuff ‘the "Real" DivX decoder that most people use and think works well’ notice that real is in “s meaning its not the official decoder… also note the part that says most people use (yes granted its only for OS X) and notice the works well part too…

    Now it makes not diff if this codec comes from the same code base that the windows version comes from… I would say most, if not all, software that works on multiple platform shares the same core source code.

    To many petitions, exist for the littlest things, and advertised in the silliest and inappropriate manners. The petition states “Windows compatible AVI handling” well Apple does have avi codec’s for Intel avi 2, 3, and 4 (for QuickTime 4.x and Intel now long owns these codecs). The codec’s have never been updated for QT5. In addition, avi is not exactly an open standard. Epically due the large number of encoders, open source proprietary and shareware, that exist. It is the exact some reason Apple cannot make a UNIX (other that OS X) version of QuickTime… apple does not own the main codec used in QuickTime. (Now remember that QuickTime is really a media “wrapper”)

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