Following in Opera's footsteps, the creators of DivX are celebrating their 5th anniversary by giving away DivX Create for free. promoted forum item

Fish you are a 5 star champ.
Cheers.

Pity it can't be used for commercial purposes (meaning, for example, I can't encode a game trailer and make it available on AusGamers). If you want to use DivX for that sort of thing you have to pay a (hefty) licensing fee.

lies, i'm still waiting for my serial number!

lies, i'm still waiting for my serial number!

Then your ISP/Mail Server is team suck, I got it instantly to my google account.

hotmail is team suck

or its flagged it as spam

How much spyware is it packaged with?

yeah doesn't seem to send to hotmails.

I still prefer XviD .. you know, due to free and open-ness, better MPEG-4 compatibility, no spyware and all around superiority to name a few reasons ...

Coupled with some [also free] frontends and players, it's plenty of software to begin encoding with.

last edited by parabol at 19:17:25 29/Sep/05

hah

your average DivX user paying for the encoding software, that's a good one!

Pity it can't be used for commercial purposes (meaning, for example, I can't encode a game trailer and make it available on AusGamers). If you want to use DivX for that sort of thing you have to pay a (hefty) licensing fee.

And rightfully not - all the advertising and other revenue should pay this licensing fee (especially for those things hosted on GameArena)

And rightfully not - all the advertising and other revenue should pay this licensing fee

You should ask them for a quote and see if you still agree (hint: its in the thousands. US$). Considering I can buy Quicktime for US$30, its a little out of whack. I'm more than happy to pay for software, but DivX is far too expensive for what it is, especially when you consider there are cheaper alternatives that are easily comparable in quality (QuickTime), or free alternatives that are at least as good (Windows Media).

Xvid is great - its open source, its good quality, its great compression - but I've been looking at the legal issues of it lately, and from what I can tell it includes an open source implementation of proprietary, patented MPEG4 code for which they haven't paid the relevant MPEG licensing fees. As such, using it prolly ain't legal in lots of countries.

last edited by trog at 09:41:30 30/Sep/05

wow, pwned