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DivX Mobile Player 1.0 for Symbian now available
Published by Steve Litchfield at 8:24 UTC, August 20th 2010
Never mind the date on the official download page, DivX Labs has officially released v1.0 of their ubiquitous mobile player for all S60 3rd Edition and 5th Edition smartphones (direct SISx links). Version 1.0 "has numerous updates and simplifications to the UI. It also has touch-screen support for S60 5th Edition users." Initial feedback shows that desktop class DivX files (unsurprisingly) generally have bitrates that are too high for the limited processor speed in most current Symbian handsets. A figure of 600kbps is recommended as a maximum.
From the announcement page (again, ignore the date):
"ATTENTION: We have released a new 1.0 version for Symbian S60 3rd and 5th edition phones.
Even if your phone isn't officially DivX Certified, you may still be able to watch DivX® videos by downloading and installing the DivX Mobile Player. Find out below if your phone supports the DivX Mobile Player and follow the link to download according to your phone’s operating system.
DivX Mobile Player 1.0 is beta software available for a limited time only and will expire.
For the older 0.94 release, please scroll down to the bottom of the page.If you are reading this page from your mobile phone, try using the Mobile website instead."
Comments welcome if you get a chance to try this out on your own DivX collection. I suspect that this player will be more use for playing custom-created content for mobile....
News Discussion
This is why it's a real shame that the CorePlayer guys have been so slow (or given up) on a Symbian version, because with a couple of slight tweaks to the settings I could play full fat desktop class DivX files on my N82 using CorePlayer and via TV out watch on the telly, and could not tell the difference in picture quality, frame rate and sound between that and a DVD although they did need a couple of tweaks to make it perfect, it was basically there. Last time I tried DivX official player it showed they weren't quite there yet (admittedly I haven't tried the new version, but this report sounds like it's not much better).
| Shows how ancient Symbian is... Other platforms I just chuck whatever divx files I want. Even some HD content plays fine. |
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Originally Posted by Unregistered
Bummer - installed on E71 but always get a "player general error" message upon selecting a video.
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On C: (device memory) the player opens , but Demo 1 and Demo 2 both give also "player general error" message ....
The older version of DivxPlayer (DivXPlayer_S60_3rd.sisx ; beta ?) was playing fine .
:) Regards jApi NL
I think people need to remember that this is quite advanced software **for mobile** - If you want more, then go back to your device that is a computer first, and a phone as an afterthought!!!
problems with an older phone??? its the same as saying 'why wont my old car go as fast as that new sports car??"
but back to the divx player... being a first release, of course it needs work... If you want to watch whole movies on a tiny screen, it is up to you...
main points..
- It needs a far better 'file browser' - presently there is NO way to load a random file!
I had to search for the 'demo' to find where they were stored!! Once some other divx files were copied there, they worked ok..
- without the above, or some file manager that routes Divx files to this player, and others to the inbuilt player, then it is not really much use...
I currently find it much easier to convert to the inbuilt player format.. :)
Its the divx fanbois forgetting that a mobile is NOT a modern PC with 2 Gb of ram, 2 or 3 GHz CPU, superfast video card, and 400Gig of HD space..... :frown::rolleyes:
oh, and most big divx movies, that you play at home on your PC or Mediacenter, are 720×480 at 4 Mb/s (home theater)
- what a waste of bandwidth, on a tiny screen....:redface::tongue:
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Originally Posted by comnut
exactly!! :D convert your movies to MP4....
Its the divx fanbois forgetting that a mobile is NOT a modern PC with 2 Gb of ram, 2 or 3 GHz CPU, superfast video card, and 400Gig of HD space..... :frown::rolleyes: oh, and most big divx movies, that you play at home on your PC or Mediacenter, are 720×480 at 4 Mb/s (home theater) - what a waste of bandwidth, on a tiny screen....:redface::tongue: |
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Originally Posted by Tsepz_011
720x480??? well my current smartphone has a 854x480 display so it handles them with no problem, shocking that a 2009/2010 Nokia s60v5 cant,i bet the E90 can.
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I suppose your current smartphone has a 3GHZ CPU, and 2G of ram then???(NO, I dont mean 'storage', but the stuff it can use to store webpages, and the massive cache needed to buffer a large film while putting it on screen...)
For those who suggest a phone can't handle dixv coded for a desktop, it shows how naive you can be. I have been using SmartMovie WITHOUT converting files at all for quite a while now & it has handled 95% of EVERYTHING I have thrown at it. This of course suggests that with some optimisation this beta can bring a quality free or at least lower cost alternative to the platform.
Otherwise, you are just blowing steam, all mouth and still in a nappy....:rolleyes:
<edit> still no idea?? how about 'Avatar' (162 Minutes)??
- convert this to a good resolution Divx5 - 1280 x 720, 16:9, 24bits, 25 FPS, 6.2Mb/s.. you get about a 6,900 Meg file...
Go on, tell me your smartphone can do it...:cool:
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