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DivX Labs: A community regenerated
The DivX presence online has grown so large that it feels like every month we’re re-examining, redesigning and re-launching at least one of our sites. This month, it was DivX Labs
that took its turn in the hot seat for an open source makeover. For the uninitiated, DivX Labs is something of an even nerdier sister site to DivX.com where you can meet and engage with other DivX enthusiasts, test out beta versions of soon-to-be-released DivX products and technologies, post your own open source video tools and share your general thoughts about digital video technology with the community.
So, what were the results of DivX Labs’ recent makeover? Well, you can see them for yourself by visiting the site but, to summarize, DivX Labs got a brand new look and feel as well as some less noticeable but equally important tweaks under the hood that aim to make the site more useful for the community. Specifically, we created
functional groups around specific topics to help you find other users with your own interests and work together more effectively. We also added some basic social networking tools so you can create a profile to share a little bit about yourself with the rest of the DivX Labs community.
If you’re new to DivX Labs and looking to get your feet wet, a good place to start is the tools page where you can read about and download handy utilities like the
Stage6 Browser Search Add-on created by Seabass, which allows you to search Stage6 videos from a persistent search box in your web browser.
Also, in the interest of giving credit where it’s due, I should mention that DivX Labs is built on the open source content management platform, Drupal.
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Film Fresh
Throw a rock down the series of tubes that make up the Internets and you're bound to hit another Web 3.0 startup promising to revolutionize the distribution of digital video content. No doubt about it-Internet video is as hot as global warming these days, and that means the hype and clich??s are flying fast and furious. Every blogger is talking about User Generated Content and Long Tails and Leaning Forward vs. Leaning Back, and while the discussion is interesting from business and technology perspectives, one can't help but wonder if something isn't getting lost in the noise. In other words, "monetizing content" is great, but what about the movies?
What about the art? Venture capitalists in Silicon Valley watch "content." The rest of the world watches movies.
Enter FilmFresh.com
. Film Fresh was created to foster the distribution of great works of global cinema, including smaller U.S.-based independent films often overlooked by major studios. Dogs on skateboards need not apply. Film Fresh recently announced a partnership to offer an online video-on-demand service on FilmFresh.com. The new service allows users to rent or purchase films in the high-quality DivX?? media format and view that content on any of the millions of DivX Certified consumer electronics devices from major manufacturers. So head over to FilmFresh.com for a collection of great global movies in the DivX format, and leave the content for the technorati.
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DivX for Mac 6.7:
Universal binary and so much more
For the last six months our Mac folks have been hard at work, and the big news is that the version they’re releasing next week, DivX for Mac 6.7, is now universal binary. This means that our latest software for Mac will run far faster for users with the newest Intel-based Macs.
The free DivX for Mac 6.7 download will include the DivX Player 2.0, the DivX Community Codec 6.6, the DivX Web Player 1.3.1 and trial versions of the DivX Converter 1.2 and DivX Pro Codec 6.6. The latest DivX Codec for Mac offers up to 12% faster performance compared to previous versions of the DivX Codec for Mac.
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De-interlacing demystified
Long time DivX guru and all around good guy thekid
(and I’m not just saying that because he sits next to me and maintains a large collection of cubicle artillery) recently posted a great blog on Stage6 about why and when to de-interlace videos so they’ll display properly online. However, the post itself didn’t go into much detail about how to actually go about the process of de-interlacing content. If you’ve been having trouble getting videos from analog sources or your digital camera to display properly, or you’re just interested in learning what de-interlacing means, try reading this detailed
explanation of de-interlacing from the DivX.com support section. Your audience will thank you for your effort.
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DivX Take Out
The Take Out channel on Stage6 offers a selection of high-quality DivX videos designed for playback on DivX Certified portable devices like
mobile phones and portable video players
. If you’re looking for high-quality DivX videos that are ready to travel with you, look no further than the Take Out channel.
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