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    The Madhatter is offline Registered User
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    How to watch DivX movies

    I have heard a lot of people complaining that there is no DivX software for Mac. I thought the same thing, but with a little searching around, I have found a solution that works every time. I yet to encounter one DivX movie that I haven't been able to play (there have been some other .avi's in goofy codecs I don't have that didn't work, but that doesn't count). Here's what I use:

    DivX Player 1.0b10
    FourCC (DivX code changer)
    Windows Media Player 6.3 (it's installed, but I don't do anything with it)

    I get a movie, check the code, if it needs changing I do it, then I open the movie in DivX Player, run DivX Doctor, and the movie appears, ready to watch. For anyone who cares, one advantage of DivX Doctor is that it creates a .mov file that makes the movie completely playable. So you can (if you have Toast Titanium) make VCD's from DivX files with no problem, as long as the movie isn't too long. It takes a while to encode, even on my G4 867, 896 RAM, but it's worth it when you can watch it on a commercial DVD player.

    I'll make a package that contains all the programs I use to do this in a .sit file and you can get it from my website (the file should be small and I get okay bandwidth on port 80). It'll be up in a about an hour. The address is:

    http://madhatter.resnet.tamu.edu

    If the websites not up just email me at madhatter979@tamu.edu and I'll send it to you or something. I hope this helps all you who haven't had much success with movies.

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    New web address

    For anyone who wants the DivX movie apps package, now just go to the following website:

    http://www.geocities.com/Augusta/6795

    I was hosting off my computer previously, but I just uploaded the stuff to a Geocities webpage that I've had for a while. It is faster I am sure and always up (as opposed to my computer, which I like to give a rest often).
    If you have any questions, email me. Also I would like to know if you get it working, so please email me if you are successful.

    Micah

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    search versiontracker / macosx : divx

    just go to http://versiontracker.com/macosx and search for "divx"

    you will get a list of software that enables QuickTime to play Divx encoded video

    there are still problems with sound
    (wma - not supported,
    mp3 - some soundtracks need to be converted to be played by the QT Player

    the easiest way to watch movies should be Easy DIVX - it convertes the soundtrack and creates a new relative QT movie with references to the original video and to the new soundfile.

    i have not tried EasyDivx yet but i know used method works.

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    no WMA support.

    DIVX in osx kind of remains at a poor state.

    Most of the time u have to extract the sound as mp3 and play it through itunes...Now if the sound is WMA format, you have no hope..yet?

 

 

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