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[–] [email protected] 176 points 3 months ago (4 children)

At the same time, nearly everything on PCs was watched with DivX, which made things annoyingly confusing

[–] [email protected] 84 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Divx was a video codec and much better than the others at that time. It was super confusing when Circuit City announced their DIVX program.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Yeah DivX was awesome. Really led the way in allowing videos to be shared online. I wouldn't have seen half the anime I did if it wasn't for it.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

I think the first DivX I watched was Princess Mononoke. Not a bad start for sure!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 months ago

Mine was a cam recording of Scary Movie 2. Horrible, horrible, horrible. Not the fault of the codec. I avoided cams after that and waited for the screeners.

But oh boy did I love my divx South Park episodes.

I probably haven’t watched a movie in 5 years.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (2 children)

Was .AVI the output of a DivX rip?

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

.avi is a container format. It can contain a divx video stream or almost any other encoding of video as well as audio streams and other media. It isn't exclusive to divx.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 3 months ago

OK I knew something sounded wrong about this but couldn't remember what

[–] [email protected] 18 points 3 months ago

Guys, check out my new video streaming site that has a bunch more restrictions than you'd expect. It's called yOuTuBE. What do you mean "that's confusing"?

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 months ago (1 children)

All this talk of DivX, but no mention of (the open source alternative) XviD? Maybe people confuse them. I think I had way more XviD videos at the time.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

I just now realized that XviD was DivX backwards.

Back in the day, I never knew the difference between the two, I just saw DivX getting gradually replaced by XviD.