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DivX 6.5 Offers Full-Screen Video Playback, Universal Binary, More [UPDATED]

DivX 6.5 Offers Full-Screen Video Playback, Universal Binary, More [UPDATED]

by , 1:55 PM EDT, May 25th, 2006

DivX, Inc. on Thursday issued DivX 6.5 for Mac, the latest version of the video player that also includes the DivX 6 QuickTime plug-in. This upgrade features full-screen playback of DivX videos, a desktop dimmer, mouse gesture controls, window fade-out, and more.

Other changes include the ability to convert movies into the DivX format, complete with the necessary HTML code to embed them in Web pages for use with the DivX Web Player. The full version of DivX for Mac 6.5 is US$19.99, although the QuickTime plug-in portion of the software is free. QuickTime 7 and Mac OS X v10.3.9 are required.

In response to a reader's question, The Mac Observer contacted DivX, Inc. and received information regarding Universal Binary support in the new update. The DivX codec, the DivX Web Player and the playback and conversion engines in the DivX Player and DivX Converter are Universal Binaries, which means they should all run fine on PowerPC or Intel Macs.

The user interfaces for the DivX Player and DivX Converter are still PowerPC-enabled, which means they will use Rosetta on Intel Macs. Given the fact that those are just the interfaces and not the underlying engines, however, users shouldn't see any problems on Intel hardware.

DivX 6.5 for Mac is available for download on the DivX Web site now.

5/25/06, 3:55 PM EST: Updated article with information from DivX, Inc. representative.

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Close Name:randyharris Posts: 12 Joined: 21 Feb 2006
Subject: Universal Binary?

Since this blurb doesn't specifically mention it, should I assume that this is not a Universal Binary?

Close Name:Mikuro Posts: 457 Joined: 15 Jun 2002
Subject: Where?

I see no mention of 6.5 anywhere on the Divx site. The latest version I see is 6.2, and that's just for Windows. Am I missing something?

As for Intel support, Divx has had a Universal binary available at their beta site for some time now. Get it at http://community.divx.com/labs/?cid=3. I've used it on Intel Macs and it seems to work great.

Close Name:Guest
Subject: Um... False News Item?

Like Mikuro said, there is no evidence of anything newer than version 6 which was released 2 months ago. I find nothing else on the web about this either. Are we reporting fake news now?

Close Name:BradC -   TMO Staff Posts: 81 Joined: 29 Apr 2005
Subject:

MacCentral is reporting this too. In addition, we've been in contact with DivX, Inc. The download is not yet available on their site yet.

Close Name:Guest
Subject: This is Now live

Hello we just posted it live a few minutes ago

http://www.divx.com/divx/mac/

Also;

There is a movie that accompanies this release; it is extremely funny (well IMHO)

www.divx4mac.com

Close Name:Mikuro Posts: 457 Joined: 15 Jun 2002
Subject: Got it now

It's up, and I downloaded it. Seems fine so far. Divx Player will be a welcome addition to anyone without QuickTime Pro, but I'll stick with QuickTime Player, personally. Divx Player is ugly and doesn't have the features of QTP.

But why are they calling it 6.5? The codec version is 6.2, same as on Windows. We have version 1.0.1 of Divx Player and version 6.2.2 of the Divx codec, combined to make "Divx 6.5"? That's an awfully confusing numbering system they're using.

Close Name:Guest
Subject: "Plug-in unable to load"

Hmmm. Normally I actually read the readme file that accompanies installations, but since there wasn't one, I wonder if I missed some important instruction that botched the install.

Anyway, it's not working for the like of me.

Close Name:Guest
Subject:

Not only did it not work, but when I went to delete it all, it suddenly wanted my administrative password to get rid of it, although it wasn't required for installation -- which is creepy, at least to little ol' me.

Close Name:Guest
Subject: fullsreen

thanks from studio burnit

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