DiVX seem to be doing a great job of co-opting standards and palming them off as their own invention. First MPEG-2 ASP for SD and more recently H264 for HD. It sucks that they managed to gain such leverage from open standards. I suppose in their favour some good may come from it since ASP & H264 has so many profiles, levels within profiles, resolutions that its very hard to produce an mp4 file that plays everywhere. Maybe getting certification will bring devices into line.
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DrXym @ Oct 15th 2008 11:34AM
DiVX seem to be doing a great job of co-opting standards and palming them off as their own invention. First MPEG-2 ASP for SD and more recently H264 for HD. It sucks that they managed to gain such leverage from open standards. I suppose in their favour some good may come from it since ASP & H264 has so many profiles, levels within profiles, resolutions that its very hard to produce an mp4 file that plays everywhere. Maybe getting certification will bring devices into line.
Charles @ Oct 15th 2008 12:39PM
It doesn't help that they purchased MainConcept.