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Unread 15-04-2002, 15:26
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Unhappy DiVX Problems

I've been noticing a lot of teams have been posting their animations. I'd like to see them, but alas, I can't view over half, because...

As far as I know, there's no DiVX codec for Mac.

Oh, and the one of two animation computers I borrowed from the team I'm going to be able to keep for a little bit longer has some weird problem with a slow hard drive, and can't play movies without horrible stuttering and jerking.

What's a mac user to do? Any suggestions, help, non-DiVX versions of animations?
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Unread 15-04-2002, 16:35
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I uploaded a quicktime and cinepak version of our animation to our website.

For the quicktime version: http://www.mowat.dhs.org/swatqtme.mov

For the cinepak version:
http://www.mowat.dhs.org/swatcnpk.avi

Both versions are at 320x240, at about 50% video quality, 30fps, and have reduced audio quality. This brought the file size down from about 130+megs to about 40megs.

If they don't work just post a list of codecs you have and I'll put up a version in that codec.
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Unread 15-04-2002, 17:15
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DIVX is for the mac

There are many programs for the mac that can play DIVX on the mac.

Here is a history version of DIVX on the Mac
http://www.macopz.com/columns/mpeg4/

www.divx.com also has an alpha codec, but I would avoid that until it goes to beta, at least.

www.3ivx.com has a program called DIVX Doctor II that can convert DIVX files into 3ivx files (3ivx is also another version of the MPEG-4 codec). http://doctor.3ivx.com/

There is also another older program called "DIVX Player", but you need WMP 6.3 to play it

There are many other program, If you search something like www.macupdate.com www.versiontracker.com and type in DIVX you will get a whole load of programs to decode it, encoding it is a whole different story.

Anyways the best solution is the Divx doctor, even thought it is a little incovient.

QuickTime 6, delayed because MPEG-LA can't get it out of their minds on their ridiculous licensing fee, will be the new player that will be the official MPEG-4 codec. When this come out, than Real, and WMP will soon follow, and the MPEG-4 will be able to let you share your file with any of the 3 major players (Quicktime, Real, WMP).

Why do I know so much about this, it is because I am always frustrated to tell people to download this codec or to download this player, just to play a video file. MPEG-4 will be the perfect codec that will be a dream come true for all web masters and video professionals. Right now, only cineapak is the only codec that you could find on most machines, but it sucks. Its old, and doesn't produce that great of results.

Anything else, just ask me, I probably know it.

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Unread 15-04-2002, 18:40
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Cool

Nicely done Kyle Fenton.
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Unread 16-04-2002, 00:53
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Talking Perfect!

Thanks Kyle, that 3ivx is working perfectly!
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It was brought to my attention that the two versions of our 783 animation, the cinepak and/or quicktime, did not have music in them. I have yet to correct this problem, but will do so soon. But now I'm worried if I had remembered to put the music in the non-credits version of our promo when we sent it to Autodesk!
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