Dvd Players (with divx support)

You know... I've been thinking a lot about it.

My ps2 just recently bit the death trap, so I might just softmod an xbox. I would imagine that the Xbox media center would do a better job playing divx and ogm files (I have a lot of those and I havn't found a dvd player that supports them and not just ogg)

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm......decisions decisions.

To go with the xbox and also buy a hard drive to go with it... although I believe I can stream video to it from my home network...I believe

Or

Go with the Philips...

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Originally Posted by lee551

i have the philips one and love it. ;)

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same

i wanna get a dvd that can play movies i d/l of the net. like xvid divx mpeg wmv -all the types.
so question is i saw a dvd that says it plays:
CD/CD-R/CD-RW/MP3/SVCD/DVD /VCD
is that gonna play xvid and divx?

Not likely.

Why didn't you mention what DVD player it is (Make, model)?

Also, there is another thread about that: http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/showthread.php?t=94419

Xbox plays everything the phillips does, the quality on the xbox is amazing but ofcourse it wont be as good as say a £500 dvd player. It does the job very well, and with it having a hard drive means you dont have to even burn those divx/xvid movies, you can connect your xbox to your pc and network them over.

NikkiD has a good one, but I cannot remember which one she has.

The codec for wmv would have to be licensed from Microsoft. That wold push the price up by quite a lot if it was available (I don't believe it is). Unless things have changed recently I don't think you will find a player that will play those, despite claims by some of them that they will.

the site doesnt say what its called except that its from ITT GERMANY
it also says something about - AC3/MPEG-II

Mine's the Phillips - plays most of what I throw at it. It doesn't support wmv, mkv, or ogm, but it does support divx, xvid, mp3, and is region free for dvd playback, so PAL, NTSC, doesn't matter. The only issue I've had with xvid is with playing movies encoded with qpel encoding - a few scene rips - but those can be re-encoded, or, most of the time, redownloaded from another ripping group.

It was $70CDN (~$60USD).

Edit: For divx/xvid support, you're looking for a player that supports mpeg4.

DK

I got one, plays everything known to man :lol:
Plays everything I thrown at it anyway :)

Jonno :cool: