Klonk Sat, 24 May 2003 15:25:37 -0400 veschprigt mroktar Julian Kovalsky <julzmon@mac.com> [re: Re: [Yello] Junk Mail]:
All the latest Divx decoders etc. Quicktime is known to play the most standards of any player. Well, you appear to be the only person unable to view the very STANDARDLY encoded file.
It is well known that .avi's is a very unpredictable format.. it's not even a format its a free for all what ever the person decide to put in it. No. You mistake DivX for AVI. AVI is "audio video interleave", which is a generic term like "motorcycle", as opposed to "car". DivX is a /type/ of AVI /codec/, like "Ducati" as opposed to "Kawasaki".
And it is hardly a "free for all". You need to read more.
Avi is a windows format only. Try again:
http://www.divx.com/divx/linux/ http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/
DivX Audio Video Interleaves are everywhere. Very, very common. I don't find it common at all. Just because you don't find it doesn't necessarily make it uncommon.
Unless i want to download something pirated. Other wise I never run into DviX. Again, that's your problem. DivX is used for loads of things other what you refer to as the realm of pirates. DivX/DVD players are being released; are now available. Independent 3d animation and video artists who wish to make high-quality, bandwidth-friendly materials available use DivX codecs all over the place. Tripping the Rift: DivX. Killer Bean: DivX. Rocketmen vs. Robots: DivX. The list goes on. Just because your Mac sucks major ass doesn't mean that the codec it fails to recognize sucks ass itself. It's just your computer. Or classic EIBKAC.