[Peter Cohen]

The trouble with UMD is that Sony has said it has no intentions of offering a writeable version of the drive, so it's not like there's a specific timeframe or date you can point to and say, "By then, I'll be able to burn my own UMDs." For now, it's limited as the delivery system for games and for pre-recorded videos only.
Thanks for your suggestion!

[lantzn]

Cool I was waiting for the free codec to be updated because DivX 5 component in my QT player broke when I updated to QT7 and 10.4.3 Tiger. I like using this codec when converting DVD VOB files to mpeg4 with OpenShiva.

[Machound]

> Has anyone guinea pigged this version yet?
I've been using DivX 6.0 for a while with Toast 7. It does all it claims to do. My main purpose for using it is for video playback on my I-O Data LinkPlayer2. (At present, there are no available media players that will decode full frame or HD H.264, whereas there are quite a few SDDivX capable DVD players and a growing number of HDDivX players.)
Be aware that transcode times are similar to H. 264 with two-pass DivX encoding -- it takes forever!
Nobody mentioned one important shortcoming of the DivX decoder versus H.264, which is DivX' tendency to drop frames frequently on a Mac. I cannot attest to how efficiently DivX decoding runs on a dual 2.7 GHz or quad G5, but I am unable to play any 480i content on my 1.5 GHz Mac Mini without dropping lots of frames. H.264, on the other hand, plays video fine on my Mini. I expect the Mac DivX 6.0 decoder isn't as well optimized as it could be. The DivX Consortium should get those newly hired Mac programmers working on the decoder pronto.

[Cryptonomicon]

Has anyone been able to successfully get the discounted $9.99 upgrade price for DivX Pro 6? I'm a licensed DivX Pro 5.2.1 user, and they're rejecting my valid serial number. Here's the details of the issue:
Visiting www.divx.com, I went to purchase an upgrade to DivX 6. On the DivX 6 for Mac page (http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/) I clicked the link to Purchase for $19.99, and was brought to a page (http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/buy/) that gives previously registered users of DivX the option to qualify for a special upgrade price. Choosing this option, the next page quotes the price as $9.99 (http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/upgrade/).
This is where the trouble starts. You must submit your registration code to be verified. I did this, but it was rejected. Confused, I used their link named "Forgot your serial number?" to have them resend it to me. Their automated system did this, and it was the same exact serial number I had tried to enter myself. Multiple more attempts did not succeed. Note that I meet their requirement of having purchased my original registration at divx.com.
I contacted DivX support, but have so far only received a response from a support specialist that did not address my issue at all.
This may be an isolated incident, but it is very frustrating to me, especially considering the lack of response addressing my issue from DivX. I am curious if others are also experiencing this inability to purchase DivX 6 at the special upgrade price despite having a valid serial number.

[Machound]

Sorry if I misled anybody with my previous post in which I stated, "with two-pass DivX encoding it takes forever!" Unfortunately, it's worse than forever. Multiple reports in the Roxio forums confirm two-pass encoding causes consistent freezes for many people. I've had success with it only on very short transcodes of < 5 minutes and even that was hit-or-miss. I hope the non-Toast DivX encoder works better.

[minderbinder]

So does the encoder take advantage of multi processors?

[Peter Cohen]

From the article:
"To that end, Huntington said that DivX hopes to release an updated version of DivX 6 thats optimized for multicore and multiprocessor Macs an enhancement just now available for PC users."