Ah, that ol' watermark takes me back to the late 2000s.

>divx
>not xvid

>>108294857
Why? Too poor to have a capable DVD player that supports it but not wealthy enough either to buy your movies?

>>108294874
>late 2000's
>was most popular in the mid 00's

>>108294891
i just remember trying to watch videos on the internet and this shit made it inconvenient

Thats what made VLC a necessity

>.rm files that needed realplayer
>.mov files that needed quicktime
>hilariously low bitrate starcraft streams that needed gomplayer
>.wmv files with license popups
>figuring out you need a codec pack and trying to get the right mix of of ffdshow/media splitter/etc to get your animu .mkvs to play properly and actually have sound and subtitles
fun times

>>108294857
>Zeitgeist_Movie_2007.avi (700MB)

>>108295117
>VLC
ew

Hey it was better than realvideo

>>108295321
zeitgeist damn man that takes me back, i remember wanting to be part of the venus project and everything

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>>108295185
man i hated realplayer
but i loved the dancing sheep

>>108294857
it was good enough

I remember burning movies to 2 part CDs using this shit

>shockwave player

>x264 encoded movies at less than 1mbps with 1289kbps mp3 audio
take me back

>>108296199
I remember burning movies to high capacity CDs, they weren't dvd but instead were something like 100 minutes CDs

>>108295185
>codec pack
lol fucking retard
not my problem.
>VLC

>>108295185
Gomplayer for watching .flv videos from youtube. That takes me back.

I remember downloading a player just for opening game cutscenes. They were in some weird format. Fuck me if I can remember what it was called.

>>108296321
You essentially made VCDs?

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>>108296798
I fucking found it. Bloody Bink video.

>>108295117
fucking PUKE jesus christ end yourself except unironically
i cant get over people that STILL use it in 2026 its beyond retardation when there is FAR better alternatives
>vlc STILL has decoding artifacts ot this fucking day, as if its a meme and something "people think is normal and expect" to see, so they never fixed it

>>108294876
cumbrain

>>108296798
>>108296854
>They were in some weird format
nigga bink is being used to this fucking day, it's a widely used fixed standard for games

>>108296879
vlc is so, so bad for so many reasons.
but on the plus side they finally added a dark mode this year :o

>>108295185
>.wmv files that required logging into a website to watch
>authentication servers are long dead so the files are just locked forever
What a mess. Has anyone made some global crack for locked videos?

>>108296854
arent they still around ?

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>>108294876
Spell DivX backwards. Go on, I dare ya...

>>108296895
Why do devs pay for a licensed codec these days instead of using an opensource one?

>>108297229
holy shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit
>>108297195
>.mov (aka fucked mkv) > some garbage formats
no shit

You now remember .rmvb

>>108296933
that took a long fucking time

>>108296933
The dev 4.0 build looks much better. Still prefer MPV.net as its not buggy and the UI is acceptable.

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>>108296726
>not my problem.
>>VLC
Yeah I would install klite codec pack which came with MPC. I mean VLC did play everything but is was not wihout its flaws.
I've since migrated to (gnu+linux)&mpv

>>108298447
I found out about mpc -hc from /a/ in like 2012 and have never needed any codec pack I remember people used to talk about it but I've had zero issues without it

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Does anyone else remember the DIVX video site where people uploads tons of softcore movies?

>>108296854
Go further back, and you'll find everyone and their mother using the same company's Smacker videos. Those crunchy, smeared 256 color fmvs, always incredibly blocky.

>>108297242
It comes with a set of tools that are useful for dev, and it's consistent with how every dev wants to have everything encrypted and hard to open.

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Anons don't know about the original DIVX, which was a self deleting DVD that acted like a sort of movie rental where you didn't have to return the DVD to the store after viewing because the disc would become unplayable 2-3 days after being removed from the case the first time.

>>108294857
it was cheaper than regular dvd.

>>108298474
>never needed any codec pack
I was using linux in 2012, where you need libavcodec+extra. around y2k you really had to install a codec pack to be able to view rm/xvid/divx and even some mpeg2 decently.. MPC was great though, simple interface that does what it needs and no more

>>108294857
why nightmares?it worked pretty fine on many devices. Xvid. a lot of pirtated animes and movies had acceptable quality.

I tried to use it nowadays. the most annoying issue is the fixed bitrate and the container being trash. specially for subs.

I remember watching anime with .divx

>>108296933
>vlc is so, so bad for so many reasons.
Name them? There's nothing wrong with vlc

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>>108294914
you must be one of those "slow" guys... or a woman.

>>108298946
I didn't know it was a rental.

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Remember when one of these early h264 players cost like 300 bucks before kodi (formerly xbmc) gets ported to android and android tv stick/boxes flooded the market.
I still have it in storage somewhere

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>>108299084

>>108299094
no u

>>108295185
OMG!
Oh yes, and the bloody things were conflicting with one another. Wanting to include themselves into the starting applications so that damned win95 would only load after 5 minutes (!) of wait time...
good times...
(not)

oh yeah, and shockwave player
and BLINK in the games.

>>108295321
>>108296122
Oh yes... the Zeitgeist video. They accounted for a whole lot of nothing at the end, and I don't know if it was them grifting or the child-eating elite throwing a spanner in the gears.

Shame. It would have been an interesting if that thing came into fruition.

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>>108295185
CCCP (Combined Community Codec Pack) was the goat, couldn't have watched all those anime without it, that and PotPlayer...