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DivX 7 adds support for HD H.264 videos

DivX 7
DivX 7, the latest version of the popular video format, is out. DivX 7 includes support HD H.264 videos in the MKV file format. It also supports AAC audio.

The company has also created a new DivX Plus certification program, which means that hardware products like DVD players and other set top boxes or portable media players that bear the DivX Plus label will be able to handle DivX 7 playback.

If all you want is the DivX codec which allows you to watch videos, you can download the latest version for free. The $20 DivX 7 Pro pack also includes tools for encoding DivX movies.

Filed under: Video, Windows, Macintosh, Linux, Freeware

HandBrake now encodes any video file, not just DVDs

HandBrake
HandBrake is a cross-platform utility for ripping and encoding DVDs in high quality, compressed video formats including XviD and H.264. And the latest version of HandBrake lets you use the powerful application to encode any video file, no DVD required.

There are a handful of other changes as well, including a GUI for the Linux version, improved video quality, and more control over audio tracks. Queued jobs are also saved to your disk so that if Handbrake crashes, you'll be able to recover the list of queued jobs without starting from scratch.

HandBrake 0.9.3 is available for Windows, Linux, and OS X with Intel and PPC versions available for OS X 10.5.

[via TUAW]

Filed under: Internet, Video, Adobe

Adobe releases Flash Player with H.264 support

Hulu HD
Adobe has launched a much anticipated update to its Flash video player. Adobe Flash Player 9.0.115.0 includes support for the H.264 codec. The upshot is that web publishers can easily embed HD videos on their site.

One of the first web sites to do that is Hulu, NBC and News Corp's new online video site. Right now there's not much in Hulu's HD gallery. But if watching Alivin & The Chimpunks trailers in 1280 x 720 resolution is your thing, you're all set.

You'll need to download the updated Flash Player in order to watch HD content. But the upgrade is a pretty painless process. Adobe isn't the first company to offer high resolution streaming video. But considering how widely adopted the Flash format is, this is a major development. Does this mean we'll be seeing full high-def videos on YouTube anytime soon? No. But YouTube does at least plan to offer videos with higher bitrates soon.

Filed under: Fun, Video, Macintosh, Commercial, P2P

Hawkeye: DVD and PVD video creation

hawkeyePhoenix-based sartup Nito announced today that they have released an update to Hawkeye, their $29.99 video ripping and encoding software. Hawkeye is the Swiss Army knife of video utilities. It rips video from DVDs and encodes it into a wide variety of video formats, sizes, and aspect ratios designed for computers and PVDs of all kinds (as you can see from the screencap below) including the iPod and Sony PSP. Version 1.0.9v6 adds support for the iPod h.264 low baseline encoding at resolutions up to 640 x 480. Hawkeye also features drag and drop support for PVDs. want to copy a movie to your PSP? Just mount the PSP in Hawkeye and drag the DVD or video file to the PSP icon. Hawkeye will handle the resizing and encoding by itself. Best of all, Hawkeye is a full-service digital video app. It doesn't just take you movies off DVD, it will take files in any video format it supports--which is most of them, including various MPEGs, Xvid, SCVD, h.264, AVI, DVI, and WMV--and urn them directly to DVD, complete with custom menus. Still working on that DVD of the family reunion for grandma? Want to make a highlight disc from your favorite Lost episodes? Give Hawkeye a spin.


Update: just to clarify, Hawkeye is Mac only.

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