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Cheez-It
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 Posted: Sat, 3rd Jun 2006 07:37 Post subject: DVD Player w/ Xvid/Divx Playback - - Suggestions? |
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Alrighty, just moved in to a new appartment, and my TV is no longer in the same room as my computer; in fact, it's roughly 40-50 feet away (by the way I'm wiring it)... Thus buying cords for this distance will be over 50$ for S-Video and RCA of the appropriate length, not to mention the pause/controls will be far away!
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I've decided to pursue a hardware DVD player that supports Xvid and Divx. I would like to spend between 50 and 150 USD$, although I'm hoping the bill will be less than 100.
I have many DVD-R (not DVD+R) and thus the player would need to have decent DVD-R playback as well, which I had a problem with a while back (probably just a faulty individual player but who knows!
I would appreciate any suggestions or comments on units you have tried yourselves!
PS: Yes I have googled, doom9ed, and and researched this a bit, I just want some more precise input 
Thanks for any help in advance!
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| Posted: Sat, 3rd Jun 2006 13:19 Post subject: |
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I'm holding my decision untill xvid.org comes out with their official "compatible with xvid" logo. Right now there are a lot of players out wich have some sort of xvid logo on the box, but in the end don't handle xvid properly. Now if i could only find the link with the news about this official xvid logo...
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| Posted: Sat, 3rd Jun 2006 22:54 Post subject: |
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i got panasonic s295 and it handles new xvid perfectly, movies that were rippied like 4+ years ago have some artifacts.divx without single problem,only cons no volume control and packed bitstream lag,but thats why we got mpeg4modifier
so far i see that panasonic has best picture quality than any of this i tried recently,LG,Sony,Packard Bell[fuked up player with ugly menu & slow loading],yamada[dvd drive stops working after a year or so]
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arw
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Mon, 5th Jun 2006 20:18 Post subject: |
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Has anyone tried to watch 720p xvid tvrips with your dvd players, in real hdtv resolution? I haven't found one yet who can play those.
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arw
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| Posted: Sat, 10th Jun 2006 15:19 Post subject: |
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| whoKnows wrote: | | Has anyone tried to watch 720p xvid tvrips with your dvd players, in real hdtv resolution? I haven't found one yet who can play those. |
Nah don't work m8...I'm not really concerned about that just yet tho.
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arw
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| Posted: Wed, 14th Jun 2006 21:21 Post subject: |
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| whoKnows wrote: | | Has anyone tried to watch 720p xvid tvrips with your dvd players, in real hdtv resolution? I haven't found one yet who can play those. |
Mmm.. I just burned Everybody Hates Chris HDTVRIP and it works...Wierd thing is when i burned it to a DVD-RW as a test the other day only the audio played.
http://www.nfohump.com/index.php?switchto=nfos&menu=quicknav&item=viewnfo&id=100729
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| Posted: Wed, 14th Jun 2006 21:47 Post subject: |
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You got me wrong, that's not HDTV, the source it was capped from is HDTV, but not the rip.
I was talking about real 720p releases with the native 720p resolution.
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arw
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Bigperm
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| Posted: Thu, 15th Jun 2006 00:37 Post subject: |
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I had the same problem in my new house. but i didnt buy a new DVD player. I bought a perviously played XBOX and soft modded it. I keep all my movies on my computer, and use XBMC to stream them via Ethernet. You can buy a universal remote and flash it so it acts as a XBMC remote. I have another hard modded xbox in my home theater room for the same purpose.
Check it out. Im more pleased with this setup than i was with my DIVX/MP3 dvd player.
And previously played xboxs are cheap, like 140 Canadian.
Just thought i would give ya another idea. Its a little more work to get up and running, but its well worth it.
Oh, and i have had no problems playing 720p Divx. I have constatine in HD and it looks amazing.
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| Posted: Thu, 15th Jun 2006 01:10 Post subject: |
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| Bigperm wrote: | I had the same problem in my new house. but i didnt buy a new DVD player. I bought a perviously played XBOX and soft modded it. I keep all my movies on my computer, and use XBMC to stream them via Ethernet. You can buy a universal remote and flash it so it acts as a XBMC remote. I have another hard modded xbox in my home theater room for the same purpose.
Check it out. Im more pleased with this setup than i was with my DIVX/MP3 dvd player.
And previously played xboxs are cheap, like 140 Canadian.
Just thought i would give ya another idea. Its a little more work to get up and running, but its well worth it.
Oh, and i have had no problems playing 720p Divx. I have constatine in HD and it looks amazing. |
as for xbox it comes with media problem ,some disks readable some not,when any diivx player even cheapest ones eat everything u throw in them they just limited with fuctions
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Bigperm
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| Posted: Thu, 15th Jun 2006 23:54 Post subject: |
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| ELIZ wrote: | | Bigperm wrote: | I had the same problem in my new house. but i didnt buy a new DVD player. I bought a perviously played XBOX and soft modded it. I keep all my movies on my computer, and use XBMC to stream them via Ethernet. You can buy a universal remote and flash it so it acts as a XBMC remote. I have another hard modded xbox in my home theater room for the same purpose.
Check it out. Im more pleased with this setup than i was with my DIVX/MP3 dvd player.
And previously played xboxs are cheap, like 140 Canadian.
Just thought i would give ya another idea. Its a little more work to get up and running, but its well worth it.
Oh, and i have had no problems playing 720p Divx. I have constatine in HD and it looks amazing. |
as for xbox it comes with media problem ,some disks readable some not,when any diivx player even cheapest ones eat everything u throw in them they just limited with fuctions |
Like i said i stream everything. Using Divx off disks is a pain in the ass. but if you copy like 5 Divx movies onto a DVDR you will (or i have) never have problems. But like i said, i stream everything. Works much better than using media.
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| Posted: Wed, 14th Nov 2007 17:20 Post subject: |
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Resurrection !
Does anyone know any cheap xvid player that support usb harddrives ..
So far found one :
http://www.pixmania.com/ie/uk/644872/art/biostek/xz-510-dvd-player.html
Also got a question ... When the description says that dvd players is capable of playing divx movies does that mean that it plays xvid as well ?
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Wed, 14th Nov 2007 17:38 Post subject: |
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| Under wrote: | | Also got a question ... When the description says that dvd players is capable of playing divx movies does that mean that it plays xvid as well ? |
in my experience, yes.
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| Posted: Wed, 14th Nov 2007 17:50 Post subject: |
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Doesn't all dvd-players with usb connection support usb harddrives?
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nouseforaname
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| Posted: Wed, 14th Nov 2007 17:52 Post subject: |
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yeah, I'll have to make sure my next dvd player has a usb port, that would be quite handy.
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| Posted: Wed, 14th Nov 2007 17:54 Post subject: |
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You should also look at dvd-players with ethernet connection, that's very nice. Got myself a Kiss DP-1500s it's quite buggy sometimes but it plays most formats.
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| Posted: Wed, 14th Nov 2007 19:01 Post subject: |
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| nouseforaname wrote: | | yeah, I'll have to make sure my next dvd player has a usb port, that would be quite handy. |
But make sure it can read Xvid / Divx from the USB... Some only allow Photos and Music via USB
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Nakitu
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| Posted: Wed, 14th Nov 2007 19:01 Post subject: |
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| BushDoctor wrote: | | You should also look at dvd-players with ethernet connection, that's very nice. Got myself a Kiss DP-1500s it's quite buggy sometimes but it plays most formats. |
Dude Kiss is high end. They want some cheap shit.Kiss ftw.
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| Posted: Thu, 15th Nov 2007 23:22 Post subject: |
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Wohoooo ... You want to hear funny stuff about phillips dvd player ? 
My mate got one - don't know what is the exact model name but its brand new...
It plays divx/xvid/mp3 you name it ... but the only problem with is that, lets say that you got
like dvdr filled with 3gb of mp3 and with one video clip. U put it into the phillips and you know what all he shows is that freaking video clip ! For some reason you can't mix videos with mp3 on one dvdr 
I tried it myself ... i brought the dvd once to him with shitload of music and a clip and u know the rest of the story ...
I was like WTF ? And they even mention it the manual ! WTF ? If this would be some cheap dvd player I wouldn't be suprised but when u see the brand like this you expect some quality right ?
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Jenni
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Chipped xbox. Not the 360.
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