DivX 6.5 offers Universal Binary player, encoder

Marcel, divx/xvid are pretty standard and have been for a while now. The files aren't tagged as ".divx", they're typically presented as .avi and will present a codec error in the absence of the codec. I've never bothered with the crap-ass players that come with codecs, VLC is really the only way to go.

Plus, the player does crash almost every time I try to launch it. This is useless. Besides, I seriously doubt that the world is ready for yet another video/container format (.divx).

Alright, the other thing that really bothers me is its automatic checking for updates that you cannot turn off. Blah @ DivX.

Yeah, the Player and Converter are still PPC. After some digging, I went to /Library/QuickTime/DivX Decoder.component/Contents/MacOS

and did:

lipo -info DivX Decoder

and the output was "Architectures in the fat file: DivX Decoder are: i386 ppc7400"

The same goes for the encoder. So I can only deduce that DivX was too lazy to make their apps universal, but were nice enough to port the Quicktime components. This kind of pisses me off, since I have sworn not to install any PPC programs on my MBP, and this one did it while claiming to be a Universal.

"though I could have sworn I've used DivX software in the past in a pinch"

You may have, but in the past there was only a codec, this is the first DivX player for the Mac.

Before now you played the DivX files in Quicktime.

Yea, and it KILLS Safari too

Yep the player is not universal, the only thing that are universal are the codecs not the applications.

Divx and xvid are history. x264 is the best open source video out there!

The X is capitalized in DivX.

after installing it, the finder says it is still a "powerpc" program. but the release notes say that there is universal binary in the code. what do you guys think?