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DivX HiQ Beta does Flash video better than Adobe
Some people say that Flash video playback can be a tad crappy at times. This is a pretty obvious business oppurtunity for competing video products, and indeed, DivX tries to one-up Adobe with its DivX HiQ Beta 2.
It's a whole (free) bundle of applications, but the interesting one is the DivX Web Player. It's basically a player that latches onto the YouTube player and a bunch of other common video players online, and offers an alternative Play button. When you hit that button, DivX takes over and plays the source video data using its own codec.
Using the DivX codec supposedly yields a bit of a performance boost on slower systems, but caveat emptor: This is still beta. When I tried it, the alternative Play button never showed up on Chrome, and when it showed up on Firefox, pressing it only caused an error message to pop up saying "the video cannot be found". Still, if you have an older computer, you might want to give this one a try (especially once it loses the Beta label).
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Subscribe to commentsUpinyaDec 9th 2010 5:16AM
I'll check it out because I'm geeked like that but this might be better focused for Apple than Windows since Apple developers are unable to code for Flash and unwilling to allow Flash at it's GPU. Just sayin'.
3tearDec 9th 2010 5:46AM
FWIW, here's another option that's still in beta: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/234315/
LegoHogDec 9th 2010 6:55AM
Near the bottom of the DivX-HiQ page (under known issues) it says that it may not work in Chrome and to install two extensions.
http://labs.divx.com/files/DivX-HiQ-2.1.0.758.crx
and
http://labs.divx.com/files/DivX-Plus-Web-Player-HTML5-2.1.0.758.crx
fuggerbunksDec 31st 2010 2:38AM
I did not like this program at all. My cpu instantly started breaking down and sites were no longer secure nor accessible. Stay away from it until they better devolop it because right now it's basically a virus.