DivX for Android

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Hello folks!

What a great new: http://bit.ly/qnyWC

Samsung Galaxy Spica i5700 will be the first Android Phone with DivX support. I'm sure it cuold be ported to other Android devices (with enought RAM).

have to say that this will be an interesting one to watch, id looked for a divx player for ages now and most people seemed to think that with the current sdk it wasnt possible.

There is a thread on the vlc forums discussing it all.

Wonder if it uses a hardware decoder to process it all?! - ive got no idea!

still looking forward to seeing it in action

I suppose a strong processor will be needed... I don't know.

Now to get some information about what "divx" actually is. Divx is an implementation of Mpeg4-ASP in the avi container. What the samsung devices has is the ability to play .avi/.divx(really the same thing) files. The G1 and other android phones can play the content of the file but have no real understanding of the container. Think of it this way. Divx is the box. Mpeg4-asp is the goodies insides. In the same way .MP4 is the box and mpeg4-asp again is the goodies inside. Currently most devices have no way to open that divx "box" to get to the goodies it can use inside. What would need to be done is to make some kind of libary using say NDK that opens the .avi/.divx and exposes the mpeg4-asp data to the media player.

What really bothers me is the general publics like of understanding of the difference between the Container, MKV, MP4, AVI, DIVX, OGG. And the codec, h.264(Mpeg4-AVC), divx/xvid(Mpeg4-ASP), theora, and vorbis

Originally Posted by realjumy

I suppose a strong processor will be needed... I don't know.

i don't know about that because my old blackberry storm was able to play divx files out the box and that had the same spec as the G1.