DIVX and XVID are being supported on PS3 when HOME comes?

In the latest firmware 2.0 update, Xvid and Divx files can now be detected as video options on the PS3.

Quote from PSU:
Now the files still won't work on the PlayStation 3, but this new find may lead us to believe Sony is planning to support both Xvid and Divx files in the future. My guess is that Sony may be doing this so that when Home is launched, users can convert their files to Divx (for smaller file sizes) and use them to display in their Home studios.

Divx is well known in the internet world for its ability to compress lengthy video to smaller storage sizes, without losing visual quality. Xvid (Divx spelled backwards) is a direct competitor to Divx, providing similar compression features and supporting MPEG 4 and H.263 video formats.

If Sony plans to fully support these video formats, this will help when importing videos into your PlayStation Home as they will upload faster without losing quality.

[happyjimmy]

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[mighty_douche]

seriously???

read the article. or google.

[Neurotoxin]

That is going to cost Sony a LOT of money to licence.

Home is definitely intriguing to say the least.

[kewlkat007]

reasons MS also have not given it to its fans as well..

This is the most important feature for me.

Man thats a long way to wait, but Tversity does a fine job for now.

Oh well

[apoc06]

i know there is a cost for divx licensing, but i swore xvid was free.

i have to check wikipedia, but i always thought xvid was created by people fed up with divx not being free, so they reverse engineered divx and improved it slightly to make xvid and offer it free. reverse engineering... names reversed... get it?

edit:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wik...

yep, i was right. well, kinda. and xvid is free as in beer.

[P4KY B]

MS now HAVE to put DIVX support in the fall update.

Thats why competition is good for us consumers.

[mighty_douche]

even 'Media Player' has problems playing alot of xvid/divx files. admittidly you can find third party codecs but you wont be able to do that on the 360.

[ItsDubC]

I was always under the impression that while MS *could* put in DivX and Xvid support, they never will because it is in direct competition with their own WMV codec.

[Bathyj]

Yes.

I want this more than any other update. More than ingame music, XMB or anything else. If cheap arse DVD players can do it why not PS3? I have a 500gb external plug into my PS3 and it would just become a big fat photo/music/movie jukebox.

[Siesser]

Same here; I've got an external crammed full of anime. I'm getting by with TVersity so far, but it lacks the ability (at least for me) to fastworward past 1.5x, which turns out to be an issue more frequently than I'd have thought possible. Also, on rare occassions, a video isn't transcoded properly, where there's like a green afterimage shifted to the right or left.

[murfo]

this is exactly what i've been waiting for, more than any other feature

[perseus]

XVid is under Gnu, so it'd be free. They just have to get it running on PPC architecture, but that wouldn't be too hard to do.

(I don't know if it's been done already, and I'm too lazy to google.)

[ASNNetworks]

It was before 2.00...My PS3 detected divx files as video even before 2.00 but I couldn't open them, it would say codec not supported or something like that....So nothing news, just hyping stuff AGAIN....Just like in-game XMB...So it's not clear weather or not Divx, Xvid will be compatible with Home...This isn't any news to me...

[Wozzer]

Has anyone noticed that when you download the theme zip file from http://www.us.playstation.c... there is a folder which includes icons, one of which is the Home icon. Does this mean Home is coming sooner than we think as it is already included in an official theme?

[Lumbo]

would you want to force people to redownload your official themes after you released home if you where a sony staff guy? no

Hence the Themes already includes a Home icon as Home is coming early 08.

[Wozzer]

I didn't think about that lol.

[Lumbo]

I am not convinced that this is any proof that DivX support is coming to PS3, but it would be great if it does. I don't want to re-encode countless video files to playback on the PS3, as someone else said before, every darn $30 DVD Player features DivX playback nowadays, why not the expensive next gen consoles?

[mighty_douche]

but if sony did add them i wouldnt complain.

as for proof, the best ive seen was a screen of HOME that had a video playing in th background and you could see the divx logo in the corner. ill see if i can find it...

edit: here....

[kss]

finally.

[PopEmUp]

This is what everyone was waiting for such a long time

[ShiftyLookingCow]

kudos to Sony if PS3 supports DivX in the future.

[ghettocheeze]

Divx is the weapon of choice for pirates and I don't see how Sony being a movie studio as well can allow something like this to happen. If this is supported in HOME then the first thing you will see is a bunch of people putting up Spiderman 3 and pirating it over the network.

Even if they were trying to start a movie on demand type service, it would be a bad idea since they are promoting Blue Ray as the premiere format for movies. Digital distribution is still years away from now.

[BISHOP-BRASIL]

My Sony old DVD Player support DivX... The divisions on Sony act independently, it's not like electronics division need approval from movies division to put DivX in that DVD, why would games division need such a thing?

[Fux4Bux]

I really hope so because that would make PS3 much better for watching videos. Prettymuch everything worth watching is in one of those formats. Coverting to compatible formats is just annoying.

[ben806]

is there any word on the home open beta coming soon?