DivX v5.0.4 Schizo beta 3 released

Written by Petteri Pyyny @ 29 Mar 2003 3:39 User comments (3)

DivXNetworks is heading towards final release of the next "stable" version of their DivX MPEG-4 codec. Now they've released a third beta for the 5.0.4 version.

The new version, officially dubbed as DivX v5.0.4 Schizo beta 3 contains these changes since the beta 2:

1 Pass and Nth Pass undersized file should be fixed
Certain dark sequences would produce a long period of frames using a Quantizer of 31
Psychovisual Enhancement field sometimes displayed "Custom" instead of Light when unselected
"Do not prompt with errors and warnings" would select itself when random characters were entered in the CLI after the "-key" option
When "-d 3" option was entered in the CLI field, "Source interlace" became blank
Max bitrate would not update at times
DirectShow decoder postprocessing slider became disabled with ATI radeon 9700 Graphics card
DirectShow decoder would "fast forward" when seeking backwards. This could cause synch issues when re-encoding DivX Files using the DivX Decoder Filter

The new version is available in this URL. Please remember that the beta version is restricted to 30 days period.

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129.3.2003 12:31

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The best devs of mpeg4 are back!!!

229.3.2003 13:26

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It appears that many people are moving away from DivX to Xvid. From what I've read, when Divx networks went to version 5 and went away from open-source, it got rid of most of most of its developers and they joined to develop a different MPEG 4 codec called XviD. Now, as you can see in the 'Top Downloads' section on Afterdawn, XviD went to number one and DivX 5 has completely left the top 10! Also, I found out that the DivX 5 Pro codec tends to encode video at up to 100kbps (or more) higher than the specified rate, unlike the XviD codec.

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