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DivX Web Player 1.4.1 Beta 1

Tue, 04/29/2008 - 14:05 — Web Player

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.


Downloading DivX Web Player 1.4.1 Beta 1:

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.

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NO COMMERCIAL USE: This License Agreement grants our community members the right to use the Software downloaded from DivX Labs for personal use only in order to evaluate and provide feedback about it to DivX, Inc. Commercial use of the Software or of the work products resulting from its use is not permitted under the Terms of Use of DivX Labs.

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