DivX Mobile Player 0.91 Released

An updated Beta version of DivX Mobile Player is now available for Windows Mobile 5.0+ and Symbian OS 9.0+ phones including Series60 3rd Edition and UIQ 3.0.

Registered Labs users may download the player from the Labs DivX Mobile Community.

If you have questions or comments, please use the DivX Mobile Forum. There is no version available for iPhone, Blackberry or Palm Garnet OS phones.

Version 0.91 new features:

• New option to disable display of thumbnails
• Improved handling of corrupted videos
• Improved Over-The-Air activation for DivX VOD
• Improved playback position memory

Known Issues:

• DivX VOD activation is not currently available using PC Player or Mac Player. The only way to activate a device is Over-The-Air. Activation is only required if you purchase DivX VOD movies. If you haven't purchased a DivX VOD movie, you do not need to activate your device.
• The backlight on the Sony Ericsson w950 stays on at full brightness while playing video. Unfortunately, DMP cannot compensate for this bug in the w950.
• If DMP encounters corrupted videos on your device while trying to display the thumbnail images in the file browser, DMP will disable the thumbnail display and silently exit. You must restart DMP. To ensure you do not have corrupted videos, always create your videos using DivX Converter.

Advice:

If your videos stutter or stall during playback, check the bitrate. DivX Mobile Player will attempt to play any size video at any bitrate on any device. However, the performance will be limited based on the speed of the processor. DMP will drop video frames as needed during playback which means not all devices will achieve 30 fps for all bitrates. Try converting videos to 24-30 fps, 320x240 resolution, 300 kbps video and 128 kbps stereo audio. Most devices with a 200 Mhz processor (or faster) will play those videos well and it's a reasonable trade off between file size and video quality.