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DivX Video Encoding Now Available to PS3 Game Developers

The availability of DivX video encoding technology will enable developers to take full advantage of DivX compression technology while maintaining the integrity of high quality video. PS3 is the first gaming system capable of playing back DivX video.

"We are excited to work with Sony Computer Entertainment to offer DivX video encoding to PS3 game developers," said Kevin Hell, CEO of DivX, Inc. "PS3 users can already use their PS3s to watch their own DivX videos, and now they'll also be able to enjoy the quality of DivX in the games."

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decapitator - 593 days 21 hours ago

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Cool, this should be good.

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Eidolon - 593 days 21 hours ago

2 - great

i wonder how it will be used.

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decapitator - 593 days 20 hours ago

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Am pretty sure it will be used very well. Am wondering though, the videos in most games look very good already, how much more will this improve the videos ?

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dauden - 593 days 20 hours ago

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Doesn't most games use the ingame engine for cutscenes and such now anyway?

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dhammalama - 593 days 20 hours ago

3.1 - I think a lot do

but games like uncharted used pre-rendered cutscenes (using in game assets) so that the next level or scene could be loaded in the background.

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Vip3r - 593 days 18 hours ago

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Since whe ndid Uncharted use pre-rendered cutscenes? They all looked pretty ingame to me.

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DJ - 593 days 18 hours ago

3.3 - It actually is in-game

But recorded and placed in as a video file. All of it was done in realtime on PS3 though. Just as other people said, the footage was used in order to facilitate background loading of the next stage.

The crazy thing is that they used the FMV assets like characters and whatnot as the actual gameplay models. The main characters have something like 20,000 polygons, which is 3~4x what you see in titles like Call of Duty 4 and Gears of War.

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Bebedora - 593 days 16 hours ago

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I like your inputs. Keep em coming DJ. +bubble

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masterg - 593 days 15 hours ago

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@Vip3r and DJ

Uncharted did not use In game cut scenes. The did prerender game graphics with some extra effects. The result is about 5-10% better.
Naughty Dog mentioned this themselves in an interview.

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KnaveX - 593 days 20 hours ago

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Sweetness. Awesomeness

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avacadosnorkel - 593 days 20 hours ago

5 - bring on the 1000 hour game already now

100 hours was so 2007

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Sano64 - 593 days 19 hours ago

7 - divix on ...

Divx compression on a bluray disk... meh

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7.1 eddierivera | 593 days 18 hours ago - User only got 1 bubble - Show

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beardtm - 593 days 11 hours ago

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its blu-ray fool not blue ray.

damn sony n00bs and their low quality compression techniques on their fancy "future" disks.

meh, HD-DVD was better.

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JoelR - 593 days 18 hours ago

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DivX quality? Oo HAH! PS3 Blu-ray based games don't need DivX.
DivX is good for 1 thing only ...making unbearably long video downloads less unbearable. So I suspect it's for PSN games.
If I could skip DivX for that or Video Downloads I would.

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DrakenSilverwing - 593 days 17 hours ago

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in that case wouldn't help out load times and less use of the HDD for installs? that would be good then.

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Bebedora - 593 days 16 hours ago

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Definitely. Think what Kojima said about space. If you can use DivX as a container for other things like audio 7.1 compressed or other things, to be able to lift in other data on the Blu-Ray that would be gold for studios out there.

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JoelR - 593 days 14 hours ago

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DivX is not a good compression standard for disc based media. Kojima would not have used it even if it were available to him as he prefers uncompressed as much as possible.

Procedural Methods for cut scenes take less room and use already created assest to begin with so DivX doesn't actually save on space in most ingame engine cut scenes.

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Hell-Reaver - 593 days 16 hours ago

9 - Thats great and all

that they want to incoperate divx encoding for in game scenes. But how about they actually fix the limited divx playback we have now.... I can barely play divx on my ps3, it's really frustrating when i have to wipe the dust off my 360 just to play a divx....

Please fix the divx on PS3, it is a certified Divx device, so it should play everything! Xbox seems to play everything i throw at it, where it should be the one having issues, not the PS3... please fix soon, then i wont ever need my xbox again!

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beardtm - 593 days 11 hours ago

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what if you want to play next gen games tho?

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