From: "Adam Flinton" 

OK I'll give it a go with dvix 3 as I'm not very comfortable with spyware
on my system though there is a huge thing from gator when you agree saying
how they won't ID you etc.etc. They've obviously been hurt by the whole
spyware thing & just possibly they've realised that it's bad business
to spy on your customers.

Adam



"Geo."  wrote in message
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> "Adam Flinton"  wrote in message
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>
> > So what's the diff between dvix3 & 5? Do you get better compression or
> > better quality or what?
>
> Divx5 does variable frame rate tricks which gives somewhat smoother motion
> when the camera does a fast pan across a scene and such, you can see it in
> the smooth motion. It really is nice but it's buggy. I have the purchased
> version of the codec which allows me to compress in divx5 format and it
> won't even work anymore because of the damn copy protection. Really pisses
> me off that I gave those morons my money.
>
> You can use the view only version of the codec for free, that seems to
work
> fine and is what convinced me to pay for the ability to encode in divx5
but
> I recommend you stay away from the purchased version as it's nothing but
> trouble.
>
> Picture and compression are about the same as divx3, they claim it's
> improved but I don't see much if any difference. Slightly less
posterization
> but nothing really noticable, file size can come out smaller on movies
with
> little action but on action flicks file size can end up bigger.
>
> Geo.
>
>

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