De developers van de bekende DivX-player hebben vorige week beta 2 uitgebracht. Deze nieuwe beta omvat ten opzichte van beta 1 de volgende verbeteringen: Includes a DivX Pro encoder instead of the DivX encoder included in Gershwin Beta 1. Use of the DivX Pro encoder is limited to 15 days after initial installation. Includes an MP3 encoder codec so that users can encode DivX video files with MP3 audio. For licensing reasons, the MP3 encoder is limited to 15 days of use after installation. (If we let you use it longer, we’d have to pay Fraunhofer money for every download.)The MP3 encoder codec requires QuickTime 6. Fixed problem when encoding from VBR audio sources (such as MPEG-4 AAC) Fixed problem with audio encoding using un-initiated audio compression settings Fixed frames per second calculation error with MPEG-2 (.vob) files Fixed crash that occurred when encoding from a movie which had been resized in QuickTime Wel een paar nadelen: de player is maar 15 dagen te gebruiken, en QuickTime 6 is vereist. Nou zal dat laatste waarschijnlijk wel positief bijdragen aan de performance van de player… En anders hebben we VLC nog.