DivX Plus Web Player Update
Based on the valuable feedback we received on the previous beta release, we have been working hard to enhance the DivX Plus Web Player’s stability and performance, following our introduction of support for DivX Plus HD (MKV/H.264/AAC).
This 2.0.1 release should bring improved picture quality, better stability and more accurate buffering times.

Adding DivX Plus Settings to HandBrake
While the HandBrake team decided to drop support for .avi in the 0.9.4 release, you can still find HandBrake useful for transcoding your videos for DivX Plus HD devices, since it will create .mkv files using x264.
Take a look at the video tutorial we put together to show you how to add the DivX Plus recommended settings.

With our next release just around the corner, we wanted to give our labs community a taste of what we’ve been cooking up since our launch of DivX Plus Web Player 2.0...

What's in this preview?

This technology preview introduces support for DivX Plus HD (.mkv) video in applications using the Microsoft Media Foundation, a new framework introduced in Windows 7. The package includes a native version of the DivX MKV Demux as well as shell extensions that provide thumbnail images and detailed file information for files with either ".divx" (DivX 6) or ".mkv" (DivX 7) extensions for an enhanced experience.