MacRumors
Dec 13, 2001, 01:01 AM
As previously reported, DivX has been slowly evolving for the Mac...
A port of ffmpeg at divx.jamby.net (http://divx.jamby.net) was the previously available DivX decoder available for Mac OS X. This port did remarkably well, allowing OS X users to play the majority of DivX files (with the proper conversion).
Divx.com (http://www.divx.com) has been testing an internal version of the "official" Mac decoder for sometime and has just release an alpha version (http://www.divx.com/divx/). This version allows for 6 levels of post-processing filters for better image quality and also runs under Mac OS 9.
Of note, there is a nagging problem with Apple's Quicktime parser for AVI's and as a result, many DivX's with MP3's have sync issues. Divx.jamby.net's port (http://divx.jamby.net) port provides an excellent AVI2Mov utility that is still necessary.
Encoding should be soon available with this interesting comment: (http://www.divx.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=22457&forum=5)
I also expect the ppl will be very suprised when they find out that they can encode to DivX faster on a G4 Mac running OS X then even the fastest PC available today when we are finished with it. The question then of "Faster then Real-time encoding" will not even be an issue from that point on.
A port of ffmpeg at divx.jamby.net (http://divx.jamby.net) was the previously available DivX decoder available for Mac OS X. This port did remarkably well, allowing OS X users to play the majority of DivX files (with the proper conversion).
Divx.com (http://www.divx.com) has been testing an internal version of the "official" Mac decoder for sometime and has just release an alpha version (http://www.divx.com/divx/). This version allows for 6 levels of post-processing filters for better image quality and also runs under Mac OS 9.
Of note, there is a nagging problem with Apple's Quicktime parser for AVI's and as a result, many DivX's with MP3's have sync issues. Divx.jamby.net's port (http://divx.jamby.net) port provides an excellent AVI2Mov utility that is still necessary.
Encoding should be soon available with this interesting comment: (http://www.divx.com/forums/viewtopic.php?topic=22457&forum=5)
I also expect the ppl will be very suprised when they find out that they can encode to DivX faster on a G4 Mac running OS X then even the fastest PC available today when we are finished with it. The question then of "Faster then Real-time encoding" will not even be an issue from that point on.
