Playing DivX files on a PPC?

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I have quite a few AVI files encoded with the DivX codec. Is there a
solution for the PPC platform that will play these files?

FWIW, I have a Dell Axim X5 with WM2002. If I can find someone willing to
sell me the no-longer-marketed WM2003 upgrade CD, I'll upgrade to that.
Alternately, I'm considering upgrading to a newer Axim and upgrading it to
WM2005 when that is released.

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Chris wrote:
> I have quite a few AVI files encoded with the DivX codec. Is there a
> solution for the PPC platform that will play these files?
>
Betaplayer (http://betaplayer.corecodec.org/) plays divx files on the PPC.

However files encoded for playback on a desktop machine may not play back
well on a PPC (not enough cpu power, disk transfer rate too low), in which
case you can re-encode them with PocketDivXEncoder
(http://divx.ppccool.com/).

Tony

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On Wed, 11 May 2005 15:04:14 GMT, "Tony A." <what@where.why.com>
wrote:

>Neil Smith [MVP Digital Media] wrote:
>> You want PocketDivx or for even more flexibilty, Betaplayer 0.096
>> "unstable" : http://betaplayer.corecodec.org/ (small footprint, also
>> does MP3, MP4 etc)
>>
>Neil, I know "unstable" usually designates "latest development version",
>however in the case of Betaplayer right now, 0.5 "stable" is actually more
>recent than 0.096 "unstable" by a couple of weeks. I noticed that when
>trying to stream video from VLC to betaplayer, which works with 0.5 stable,
>but not with 0.096 unstable.

Oh ok thanks Tony - I'll re-evaluate it then ... BTW As I understand,
0.096 supports MPEG4 decoding, wheras 0.5 does not. Is that still the
current situation ?

Cheers - Neil