64-bit version of DivX Plus Web Player
It would be nice if you guys released a 64-bit version of the DivX Plus Web Player. Anything to make it run better. I'm obsessed with streaming perfection, be it Flash or DivX.
This is for the Divx dev team. Look don't use that ridiculous excuse of Apple discontinuing Carbon. It is a pure management oversight that your company has not been working on porting existing Carbon code for years. Everyone with half a brain knew for years that Carbon was going to be discontinued! So yes it will take a good chunk of time to port Carbon code to Cocoa and you might actually be better of just starting from scratch. It might also be beneficial for you to invest in some GOOD osx developers. The majority of computers might be running windows however the majority of content creators are using OS X. Quite frankly if I had to choose between dealing with divx and using the Apple included codec you would loose every time.
And yes you are no Adobe but you should most definitely follow their foot steps. They might get a lot of crap for being lazy and ignorant when it comes to OS X but they did port everything to Cocoa and did include hardware acceleration in Flash. Do your homework and stop being lazy about your products. Plus if there are really new and exciting features coming up how come there hasn't been anything new released in the last year? Where are the press releases, technology previews and such? Did you again forget about OS X or is that a market that you really don't care about?
FireFox 4.0 will have a x64 version also. It's in beta right now as the hole 4.0 line is. Flash will have its x64 support very soon. The only codec let is divx. This needs to be look into and taken care of soon. Java has had x64 bit for years and now Adobe's flash will by the final of FF4 or around then.
"We will probably do it eventually, but it won't be soon. It is really complicated to move it over to 64-bit and with the except of Safari's default setting on Mac, all other browsers default to 32-bit."
I was absolutely amazed to see this! EVERYONE should be moving to 64 bit....NOW! I already have..... all my systems are now 64bit and a whole raft of software suppliers are committed to going 64bit. I've read on many occasions that companies NOT committed will be left behind... I just hope you aren't one of them.... the statement above however seems to suggest that you will.
The excuse of "It is really complicated to move it over to 64-bit" is not what we end-users like to hear from software companies... not from the more cutting edge ones in 2010 anyway.
Hate to break it to you, but I wouldn't hold your breath on a 64-bit version of the Web Player. We will probably do it eventually, but it won't be soon. It is really complicated to move it over to 64-bit and with the except of Safari's default setting on Mac, all other browsers default to 32-bit.
Don't worry though, there are some other things we have planned that will definitely "make it run better" that you can look forward to.
this is very bad news. so in other words, we have to adapt to u, not the other way around.
i would really love to have open source alternative to you for my mac.... unfortunately i did not find anything useful yet, so i guess, i am stuck to your bad software.
it is very buggy,, bringing the windows-culture into my mac... what a shame...
at least make it work, man, give us the 64bit and i will never bother you again.
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Google is hard at work developing a 64-bit version of its open-source browser for Windows. The Mountain View-search giant indicated that work was in progress, but delivered no specific availability deadline so far.
According to Chromium developers Mads Sig Ager, a 64-bit (x64) flavor of Google Chrome will be offered to Windows users “soon.” There’s no telling just what the period of time “soon” can be translated into, but testers can already run 64-bit Chrome.
Google is offering downloads of it's true 64-bit version of Chrome, tailored to the Linux open-source platform. The Mountain View is focusing on adapting x64 Chrome to Linux and Mac OS X first, and only afterward to Windows. According to Google, the heavy lifting is focused on porting the underlining V8 JavaScript engine to 64-bit platforms.
“V8 does not yet compile in 64-bit mode on Windows. We have focused on making the 64-bit version of V8 work on Linux and Mac at first. We are currently working on making the 64-bit version compile on Windows as well. We should hopefully have that done soon,” Ager stated when x64 Chrome for Linux was launched.
Google is currently offering multiple releases of Chrome for Windows, including Chrome 5.0 through the developer channel, Build 3.0? via the Beta channel, and 2.0? the stable version.
Users test driving 64-bit Chrome for Linux need to know that development has so far not been about performance. “We have focused on making the 64-bit version complete, so there is still some performance tuning to be done. Currently, the performance of the 64-bit version is pretty close to the performance of the 32-bit version when Chrome 2 stable was released,” Ager added.
Now if only someone can explain why Google Chrome doesn't even have the Google toolbar as an add-on!
Anyway, with all this 64-bit browsing progress, and the best HTML5 support, Google Chrome is starting to steadily improve. I just got Chrome 5.0, I've only been using the official version.
Get the best Google Chrome, 5.0 right here:
http://www.google.com/chrome/eula.html?extra=devchannel
Okay DivX, it's really time to start acknowledging the need for a 64-bit version of the web browser! Please set up a time frame soon.
As displayed by peskypescado's answer Divx is a very lazy company.
He hasn't been around in a long time. I guess we scared him off. Maybe we'll get a response from profitron?
One of the worst answers from a public company I've heard in a while. 64-bit is the future. I'm not sure your shareholders will be happy to learn you will "probably do it eventually"
username1000,
for more goodness on this front, please see this (now locked) thread: http://labs.divx.com/node/14805
(P.S. I completely agree with you. DivX is a public company and should give better responses)
Lol, great posts LordRPI! I'm not surprised they locked that thread, they obviously wanted to stop others from highlighting their stupidity.
Interesting, so I won't hold my breath, but I hope you guys set a goal to actually develop the 64-bit version. Honestly developers are all years behind making sure their applications have 64-bit versions. We can worry about getting 64-bit browsing.
We have Safari's default setting on Mac, Mozilla has 64-bit Minefield, there is also 64-bit IE so three choices is enough web browsers. Adobe is talking about 64-bit flash, by the time Adobe releases 64-bit flash, I'd hope you'd offer it as well. Can you make it a goal that you'll surely be releasing it in the next year or two?
Moving to 64-bit may be complicated, but then again it's the future, and it's worth it. It gives massive performance increases.
I couldn't agree more with you philochs.
I especially like this comment "but I hope you guys set a goal to actually develop the 64-bit version."
64 bit for the Divx line is very important and would allow all of us to take advantage modern systems, that run on Linux, MAc and Windows.
With the Divx Web Player being so unstable for many years, I think stability would be first priority, but plans for the 64 bit version should be in place.
What is interesting is that Divx owns Main Concept. I have been a customer of Main Concept for years, I believe that they have the best and one of the first H.264 codecs.
If you look at the following page on the Main Concept site:
Main Concept's H.264 Codec
You will see that Main Concept's (owned by Divx), H.264 codec runs on both 64 and 32 bit, as well as Linux platforms, Mac and Windows.
I mostly use Virtualdub, that has a 64bit version and I have installed all the 64 bit codecs I need to encode everything that I use, except for Divx. The performance increase, using the 64bit vdub, and the 64bit codecs is amazing, as is the reduction of system usage.
PLEASE stay with web standards - Use Firefox 3.5x.
You've brought up a lot of good information here. You've also made some excellent points. I hope the folks at DivX will take this important stuff to heart. AC3 Filter's Full version also supports 64-bit. That's 64-bit for AC3 and DTS audio.
Adobe? Forget Adobe.
Microsoft has Silverlight working on 64-bit Safari.
MICROSOFT!!!