DivX Video Encoding Now Available to PS3 Game Developers


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The availability of DivX video encoding technology will enable developers to take full advantage of DivX compression technology while maintaining the integrity of high quality video. PS3 is the first gaming system capable of playing back DivX video.

"We are excited to work with Sony Computer Entertainment to offer DivX video encoding to PS3 game developers," said Kevin Hell, CEO of DivX, Inc. "PS3 users can already use their PS3s to watch their own DivX videos, and now they'll also be able to enjoy the quality of DivX in the games."

Source: http://n4g.com/gaming/News-144889.aspx

Full article: http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/S...20News/1545873/

I guess this is good?

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The availability of DivX video encoding technology will enable developers to take full advantage of DivX compression technology while maintaining the integrity of high quality video. PS3 is the first gaming system capable of playing back DivX video.

Umm..no it wasn't / isn't :/

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DivX is old hat and sub standard these days, not won a codec battle for 5+ years. Not sure why a developer would want to use it over alternatives.

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DivX is old hat and sub standard these days, not won a codec battle for 5+ years. Not sure why a developer would want to use it over alternatives.

In PC terms, yes. In the console world none of these codecs have been available to utilise within games until now.

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In PC terms, yes. In the console world none of these codecs have been available to utilise within games until now.

I'm not sure what you mean, games have included video in various forms since larger media and mpeg decoders have been around. Many have used MPEG2 & 4 etc, perhaps not specifically in DivX yet? But that comes back to asking what the advantage would be in doing so.

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Anybody who wants to be taken seriously and listened to in the future ;)

Bad journalism ftl (N)

I agree - but its a website not specializing in gaming so I wouldnt expect it that accurate

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It's not good news cause now they need some other things to fill the space of those BD.

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It's not good news cause now they need some other things to fill the space of those BD.

was thinking the same thing... no need to shrink the videos down at this point anyway.... plenty of room available...

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was thinking the same thing... no need to shrink the videos down at this point anyway.... plenty of room available...

yeah i was thinking the same, i mean youve got good reason to do on the 360 with the lack of space. why use it on the ps3 when you have up to 50gs to use?

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Realmedia loads fast too, doesn't change the fact it looks like *ahem* ;) Similar codecs such as Xvid are out there and free, this really smacks of DivX trying to keep their format out there.

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yeah i was thinking the same, i mean youve got good reason to do on the 360 with the lack of space. why use it on the ps3 when you have up to 50gs to use?

Bandwidth maybe. There isn't much bandwidth available for reading from disk. The less you use on video, the more you can use loading other crap. You could display a video while loading up the next level in the background.

No point using DivX if they already had H264/AVC.

That's what I'm thinking. No point if you already have something that's better.

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That's what I'm thinking. No point if you already have something that's better.

Its probably for the studios trying to rush games out, it compresses faster than avc.

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