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DivX Web Player 1.4.1 Beta 1
DivX Web Player 1.4.1 Beta 1
We've updated DivX Web Player with improved support for Windows Vista, including better video quality and support for Internet Explorer 7 when running in Protected Mode. If you have experienced any trouble with the web player on Vista in the past, please try this new version!
Support for Internet Explorer 7 Protected Mode
Windows Vista introduced a new security concept where applications can run as "low integrity" processes. Under the system, low integrity processes have limited access to APIs, the registry, and file store locations. Internet Explorer 7, when running in protected mode, is launched as a low integrity process and prevents older versions of DivX Player from operating correctly because they are unaware of these new restrictions. A typical symptom was an error message reading, "The DivX Web Player could not write the video file to the disk." This new DivX Web Player beta should resolve that problem.
Improved video quality
Many users reported degraded video quality when using nVidia graphics cards on Windows Vista systems where images would appear pixelated and aliased if the video was not played at its native resolution. This was particularly noticable after switching the display to full screen mode. This latest DivX Web Player should resolve this quality problem.
Support for DivX subtitles on Windows Vista
DivX Web Player 1.4.1 Beta 1 can now correctly render DivX XSUB subtitles on Windows Vista systems.
Other enhancements for Windows Vista
This beta also includes other playback enhancements for Windows Vista systems including a fix for a crash that sometimes occurred when closing the web player and improved rendering performance through Direct3D.
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DivX Web Player is part of the DivX for Windows package and this beta can be installed on top of any prior version of DivX 6 to update it. If you are a registered user of DivX 6, your registration will be retained if you choose to try this beta or if you choose to re-install the last official release of DivX for Windows.
Important: While using this beta software the built-in update system may inform you that a new version is available and prompt you to update. Please ignore this prompt while using the beta, otherwise you will be downgraded to the last official version of DivX Converter.
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How do I...
ok how do I use DivX im new to this and its confusing right now because I dont even know what DivX does
Hello?
Is anyone reading thees post's other then people with the same problem?
Love to hear some response from "software-staff"..- I prefere a statment like "Yes we are working on it and it will be fix in the new beta" ^^
Cheers
xp win 64 - bug
Have the same problem as jolo - i tried FireFix3.0, IE7 both webplayer 1.4 and beta all software are uptodated but still can't see video :(
It will update software after install when i try to see a video with the webplayer.
Please fix this bug asap - great player!
It is a shame
The Divx Web Player started out as a sensational product.
The best quality and FASTEST streaming video I have ever used. Nothing close.
Then when 1.3 came out and it appeared that there was an effort to assume that no own would ever want to have Divx Video streamed from their own web sites, that everyone would be uploading to that product (I forgot the name already). Sort of Divx's attempt as a Quality You Tube, for Divx only. Then the Divx Web Player just stopped working with any consistency.
Most have given up on it and I personally have been embarrassed with videos that "used to work" perfectly, then started working very inconsistently, with version 1.3.
There is some improvement with 1.4 and now 1.41 demo, but the streaming is incredibly inconsistent. Sometimes it stalls, sometimes it works, you never know.
I think Divx has a large, black hole with not having a stable streaming web player.
I would like to know if there is ANY commitment to fix the darn thing.
I am using Firefox myself, but I test it on IE as well.
I guess I have to tell people to first download the Divx file to their PCs, then run it off of the Divx Windows Player.
While we're at it, lets hope that the Divx encoder (and player), but mostly the Divx encoder can be simply re-compiled to create a 64bit version of the Divx Pro encoder. Since Virtualdub is stable at 64 bit and all of the audio codecs I use can be accessible at 64bit, why can't Divx. When I use a different codec to encode using Virtualdub 64 bit 1.81, the encoding absolutely flies.
Thanks,
Jon
IS Divx ever going to have a working streaming web player !!
Jon
Works great ----at times !!
I was hoping that the 1.4.1 Beta 1 would work kind of consistently but I am having a lot of problems.
Before saying that, in Firefox I have a video that is 700 x 400 compiled in Divx 6.82 Pro (using Vdub) and it looks great !! Better than any web based video that I have ever seen.
BUT ....
I noticed some real inconsistencies in the buffering.
This is on auto-play = "true".
Sometimes it will buffer about 1% or show and start playing and go through fine.
Sometimes it can get "stuck".
Other times, it will buffer until it gets to 100% and take several minutes. All on my PC, same hardware.
I put buffering = auto (the default anyway), in the code tried it and took it out and it didn't make a difference.
I deleted the cache file and it is weird. Just plain inconsistent,
I don't know what to expect.
When it starts that buffering and goes for a while, it really GOES FOR A WHILE.
If you want I can supply you with what you would need to look at the exact HTML file and the Divx file.
I went to try it with Windoz Explorer and that flat out didn't work.
I used Windoz Explorer version 7.0.6001.18000 -> 64-bit edition.
What happens is that I am asked by Explorer to download the active X controls for the Divx web Player, I already the Beta installed.
If I say yes, of course it will install the older standard 1.41.
But if I just remove the warning, I just see the Divx box and the video doesn't run.
If I click on the warning that is on top of the Browser, and click on yes, I am asked if I want to install ActiveX controls, if I click on yes, then I am asked about installing the Divx Windows player. If I click on yes, it will install the old 1.41 version.
If I click on No, I will stay with that blank Divx Web player box and the video will never run.
Fortunately Firefox 2.00.14 is smart enough not to do that.
Any help with this ??
I will say that it does LOOK GREAT, when it does execute, with the video at 720 x 400 and compiled as "One Pass Quality Based" level 3, my Audio runs at 48000, MP3, CBR 128 (I always make by audio MP3 CBR for compatibility reasons with all stand alone Divx compliant DVD players), and at 720 x 400, it really filled up the screen of my widescreen LG monitor. I recently upgraded by graphics card as well (ATI 2900 512ddr), so it looks great on the widescreen.
Why the buffering is inconsistent, I which I knew. I have a AMD dual processor, Vista Ultra 64, 4GBs of RAM, ATI 2900 512ddr new graphics card and my monitor is connected digitally.
I also have cleaned out cookies,cache and temp files that might be hanging out using "Ccleaner", and did a re-boot also to make sure that nothing was "hanging out" in RAM to mess things up.
Thanks,
Jon
PS: Hey, by using the 1.41 beta and being the only one to comment, does that mean I can get another free license ???? :-)
(You know how the terrible the economy is in the U.S.).