DivX Tech Preview now has 64bit support (mkv in media center)

Yeah got the email this morning, been pestering them on the forums for a few weeks. Almost gave up and VMWare'd Win7 x86 just to be able to stream.

Will install tonight and see how it handles.
 
MKV isn't a codec though. It's a container. Just like AVI files are.

You don't need 64-bit or hardware support to parse a bloody MKV/AVI file...
 
Erm yes of course I have. Which is what led me to post my reply.

As I said, MKV is just a file format/container. It isn't an encoding and therefore it doesn't need decoding or any form of hardware acceleration.

As far as I can tell, DivX are simply saying that they've included a MKV Splitter extension for Windows 7 in their latest tech demo. Although not a very good one because they say on their web page that it can only split off the primary audio track and doesn't support subtitles. So it pretty much defeats the whole point of a MKV multi-stream container :p

I think I will wait for Haali or whomever to come up with something better.
 
I'm using DIVX-HD decoder to split h264 streams in mkv files just fine, I don't use MCE though, only MPC and audio streams are split using either built in aac/dts/ac3 decoders or ffdshow/coreaac \m/

Win7 x64 btw.

no need for hardware decoding on today's computers, even HTPCs are beefy enough and image quality virtually identical.
 
NathanE said:
Erm yes of course I have. Which is what led me to post my reply.

As I said, MKV is just a file format/container. It isn't an encoding and therefore it doesn't need decoding or any form of hardware acceleration.

As far as I can tell, DivX are simply saying that they've included a MKV Splitter extension for Windows 7 in their latest tech demo. Although not a very good one because they say on their web page that it can only split off the primary audio track and doesn't support subtitles. So it pretty much defeats the whole point of a MKV multi-stream container :p

I think I will wait for Haali or whomever to come up with something better.
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It splits the mkv files and uses windows own built in codecs to sort out the (usually) x264 video

sorry, for the pedantic I should have said that it's for 'the contents within mkv' instead of simply mkv
 
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