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DivX 6 is now available for the Mac -- along with an encoding application that lets users drag and drop movies to convert them. more

[tabasco_hot]

Has anyone guinea pigged this version yet?

[macuser25]

This is ok... but you can get the exact same thing and more as part of Toast 7 for not much more money.
Plus... with Toast you can convert DVDs to DivX and go back in the other direction... download DivX and go to DVD. This doesn't handle MPEG2 at all in either direction.
MacMall has Toast for $40 now.
http://www.macmall.c...dpno~605084.asp

[Peter Cohen]

Not the exact same thing -- the $20 nets you the encoding application, which is a drag and drop conversion tool.

[lkrupp]

"Has anyone guinea pigged this version yet?"
I've been using the decoder plugin for some time now. It is installed as part of Toast 7 (Roxio and DiVx cooperated to get version 6 out with Toast 7). No apparent problems.

[macuser25]

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Not the exact same thing -- the $20 nets you the encoding application, which is a drag and drop con

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Toast has encoding capabilities... encodes to DivX SD or DivX HD... for either burning to disc or exporting to hard disk. It has batch encode capabilities and can use existing DVDs as your source.

[Peter Cohen]

Roxio includes more than the decoder; the encoder is included too (it can burn DivX videos to disc). Like I said, it's the discrete encoder application that makes this different.

[TxTom]

Sooo...is there anything missing from the Toast version compared to this offering for $19?

[Peter Cohen]

Sorry that I'm being unclear here.
DivX's standalone release includes an encoding application not found elsewhere.
Toast 7 Titanium includes Divx 6 Pro drivers and encoding capabilities, but not the standalone application that enables you to drag and drop media files for conversion to DivX.

[Nobody]

Will this be at all useful for encoding movies for iPod video or to UMD?
It is an area I have always been interested in but because it was slow and involved on the Mac I haven't followed it through.

[macuser25]

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Toast 7 Titanium includes Divx 6 Pro drivers and encoding capabilities, but not the standalone application that enables you to drag and drop media files for conversion to DivX.

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I think you're wrong... Toast 7 has an Export option that does batch encoding of any video file into DivX format... you can drag/drop in any QuickTime file, as well as DVD VOBs, titles, chapters or existing MPEG2 video. That exceeds the capabilities of this encoder app that DivX is now selling.
So... in the case above... Toast is the standalone encoding app.

[Peter Cohen]

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Will this be at all useful for encoding movies for iPod video or to UMD?

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No. First of all, there's no such thing as a writeable UMD drive on the consumer market. You can encode video for the PSP and write it to the Memory Stick Pro, though.
Having said that, neither the PSP nor the video iPod can play back video that's encoded with DivX -- both of them understand MPEG-4 and H.264, but this encoding technology is a bit different.

[macimmortal]

I installed it and it works fine. Only wierd thing that I experienced was that once I rebooted my computer, I got an error message:

The startup items folder "/Library/StartupItems/" has problems that reduce the security of your computer.
I then had choices listed, "Decide Later" or "Fix." I looked it up on Apple's support site and it said to fix the problem.
Just an fyi.

[Nobody]

Peter,
I was thinking of using it on the memory stick, but looking to the future UMD is just a mini DVD disk isn't it? They haven't done anything fancy like spin it in the reverse direction?
Could you please perhaps write an article on the diverse range of encodings and their advantages and prospects. A lot of this is just alphabet soup, without hands on experience..