• @[email protected]
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    1761 month ago

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

    • @[email protected]
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      851 month ago

      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]
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        181 month ago

        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]
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            61 month 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.

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            1 month 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.

    • Trailblazing Braille Taser
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      181 month 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”?

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      101 month ago

      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.

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        21 month 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.