One of the hassles of working with audio and video files is that there are many different file formats, and not all are easily read or universally compatible with software you commonly use. Xvid is a ...

The Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update arrived overnight, and added a long list of new functionality - although the one thing most people are interested in is the relatively unexpected arrival of ...

Xvid is rarely used these days, but that means it can be hard to know what to do with it if you come across it while digging through your old files. It’s essentially a method for compressing video, ...

One big problem i've encountered in XviD encoding is the perceptible presence of macroblocks.I just can't seem to ignore it or reduce it . When the same file was encoded using DivX (Pro 5.2.1), there ...

“We like to rock the party.” CineXPlayer does something the native iPad Videos app cannot: play Xvid files.Screenshot by Rick Broida The iPad may work wonders as a mobile video player, but it’s rather ...

The two biggest Apple TV limitations are the lack of codec support (like XviD, DivX, etc.) and not even having the ability to do basic surround sound like Dolby Digital 5.1. These issues were resolved ...

These are instructions on how to install Perian(Divx, Xvid), Flip4Mac, and other codecs on your Take 2 AppleTV. Before you can attempt this tutorial you must have SSH installed on your AppleTV. To ...

Click to viewThe Xbox 360 supports DivX and XviD as of today, which may make some of you with big file collections (like us) as giddy as a kid in store with puppies made of candy. We threw our entire ...

I was under the impression that h264 was better than xvid/divx, in that you could compress files more with similar quality, even if the files took more processing power to decode. But I have been ...

Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming console is one of the most popular ever. It's great for sitting around and playing games with friends and you can even play DVD's and music CD's on the console. While this ...

Most Android devices support a handful of media codecs out of the box, including H.264 and MP4. But there are a ton of formats that aren’t typically supported, including MKV, DiVX, Xvid, and WMV. And ...

The open-source multimedia world cleared a legal hurdle three decades in the making today: the final patent covering MPEG-4 Part 2 Visual — the codec behind DivX and Xvid — expired on July 19, 2026, ...