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    Analysis - DivX targets the mobile video market

    The tablet era will cause an explosion in the consumption of video on the move and DivX wants to be the default.
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    Re: Analysis - DivX targets the mobile video market

    What's the difference between DivX HD (which the Galaxy Tab supports) and DivX Plus HD? Neither the Samsung or DivX websites mention this.

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    Re: Analysis - DivX targets the mobile video market

    Quote Originally Posted by aceuk View Post
    What's the difference between DivX HD (which the Galaxy Tab supports) and DivX Plus HD? Neither the Samsung or DivX websites mention this.
    DivX Plus HD uses the MKV container format (AKA Matroska instead of an AVI or MPEG container. It is a better container with less waste than older formats, so the same file will be a couple of percent smaller. The container also supports multiple audio, subtitle and even video tracks in one file which the older formats don't

    The thing about DivX is that it is just a brand name for an encoder and decoder, of standard MPEG-4 or H264 streams. There is not much different about the files it creates from any other encoder. From my testing the encodes it produces are not bad, but the open source encoders (XviD and x264) are better for absolute quality, or if you need speed, then a hardware encoder is best (at the expense of quality).

    DivX is just a brand, and to claim that they are better than others like claiming that Shell petrol is better than Esso petrol. It might be, but seeing as all petrol sold meets the same standard (BS EN 228:2008), and has to be usable by all cars any differences will be slight. In the same way all H264 encoded video needs to be playable on all players, so the encoder can't stray from the standard as otherwise playback will become a problem.

    Back to the subject of Video on mobile phones, The company I work specialises on doing video to mobile phones, and we have setup a live streaming demo at:

    www.tv2mobile.mobi

    Please point your mobile phone web browser at that URL, and let me know what you think. The demo supports iPhone, iPod touch and iPad, and also most recent Android devices. It won't work over Vodafone (they block video streaming), and you will need good 3G reception, or your home WiFi.

    The videos are encoded with x264 at 300 Kbits/sec with AAC audio. The bitrate is about 2 Mb/minute so be careful not to use up all your quota of data from your mobile network.

    If you do watch the live video streams, then please let me know what you think and what device you where using.

    Enjoy.

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