DivX and Xvid

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Hello,

A newbie question.

What is the significant difference between DivX and Xvid and what should one look out for while looking for a Personal Media Player (such as Creative Zen or Cowon)?

Is it important that a device support both? Or, is the support for one of them more important than the other?

Any advice on suggested devices that support these (among PMPs)?

Thanks in advance.

Abel N

 

[Andy Grange]

Xvid is a codec that's a competitor, if you like. At the time they were both released they were looking to become the standard, which arguably you could say DivX has won.

I've got a Zen Vision:M which has a DivX player built in. It supposedly supports DivX, XVid, MPEG 1/2/4, and WMV's. I've found that 95% of the movies I watch on there are fine. The only issues I've had are newer DivX files, and ones that have had a different audio encoding to MP3. AC3 and others are more common these days, and not supported on the Zen