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I guess the lack of DivX explained.

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Contributed by: Ilgaz Thursday, April 16 2009 @ 05:23 PM PDT

Product Platform: MacOSX

Used Product For: Over One Year

Recommend Product: YES

DivX geniuses released their DivX 7 software as "Intel only". Now, if it was the reason that Roxio dropped DivX bundle, they were right doing it.
Imagine as a PPC user (which many, still exist) you pay that price to Toast 10 which is really a huge bundle and you figure out, the DivX 7 is not supported on your machine.
I guess the time that we all adopt, support, buy codecs like 3ivx, xvid and even Apple's bundled mpeg4 (not so great) codecs instead of paying money to DivX. In bundle or not.
Of course, they had options like bundling 3ivx instead or dropping the price. I am not apologising for them but in case of DivX, good to let it go.

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I guess the lack of DivX explained. - KeesW

If you are encoding video on a PPC, you're doing something wrong. The Intel chips run circles around the old G5, especially in video encoding.
It's ages ago that Apple last released a PPC Mac, their own OS doesn't even run on PPC chips anymore, yet you think it is reasonable that a company cripples a product because of a bunchof PPC holdouts.

If it wasn't for legacy players with DivX support, we'd all be using h264 anyway.

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