File Details |
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File Size | 2.5 MB |
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License | Freeware |
Operating System | Windows 2000/Vista/XP |
Date Added | October 20, 2008 |
Total Downloads | 28,928 |
Publisher | DivX, Inc. |
Homepage | DivX Web Player |
Publisher's Description
DivX Web Player lets anyone embed high quality DivX videos in their web pages or blogs without using special streaming servers or installing server-side software. Video plays live inside the browser or full-screen while it downloads.
Latest Reviews
gate1975mlm reviewed v1.4 Beta 5 on Nov 19, 2007
This new build fixed the issue where when playing a divx video in a browser it would turn off Vista Aero skin. :)
nnellans reviewed v1.0 on Mar 14, 2006
Good job DivX team. Awesome browser support. Low system requirements ... very well done.
Use this Code Generator to help you put the Web Player on your own webpage: http://divxplugin.entwocomputing.com
some guy reviewed v1.0 on Feb 22, 2006
very nice plugin for streaming a divx on the web.
but with the file size of the Divx vs a wmv or mov or swf or flv,, I don't really think it will take off for streaming. Due to the large file size.
Kramy reviewed v1.0 on Feb 21, 2006
horsecharles: It only needs a browser - I have IE totally removed and it runs fine.
This has low resource usage! It played this vid fullscreen without maxing out my CPU when set to 5x200mhz FSB(1ghz) on an AMD Athlon XP, while only increasing the Firefox memory usage by about 10mb! For comparison, Media Player Classic used roughly 25mb for the same video, but it can play the same video on a 500mhz(with ffdshow 20041012).
horsecharles reviewed v1.0 on Feb 21, 2006
Edit: Hey, Kramy! You're right about any browser-- 'cept for Opera's latest version 9. Not as lucky as you @ resource usage, will try on more systems...Wish I could remove IE--work w/ too many sites that require it.
BTW Works on all windows versions, esp. fully patched ones: the only requirement is IE5, which came out before win98se. Does use up a LOT of resources though!
photonboy reviewed vBeta 4 on Feb 3, 2006
I gave it a four mainly because the Divx codec has not been impressing me as of late. I downloaded a few of the example trailers. They are either overcompressed or the codec is suffering. I recompressed the High-Def Shark Tales trailer from the Divx site using Nero's codec at the same size as the smaller version and Nero's codec looked much better.
I'm uninstalling it mainly because I haven't found any sites that use this yet except for the example site. My advice is don't bother installing this until website's start requiring this. (if ever)
agildehaus reviewed vBeta 4 on Jan 31, 2006
Very much improved. Only issue I ran into in the last 20 minutes was with the installer ... it tried to copy the plugin to a Mozilla Deer Park directory which no longer exists save for a reference or two in my registry, and gave me an error.
roy204_DivX reviewed vBeta 3 on Jan 21, 2006
y0himba:
You are contradicting yourself here and missing the point.
First, the license agreement is _exactly_ the place to put this information. In order to install the software you had to explicitly check a box that says you have read the license agreement and agreed to it. This is standard procedure and you are expected to be responsible for what you do when you install software on your PC.
Second, do you want to know the extent of what we "market" ? Well here it is: 1553. That's it. 1553. That's the number of installations of the plug-in there have been yesterday. That is the _only_ thing we record. And you're afraid I'm going to record your IP and go to your door to sell you a set of encyclopaedias because of that? Aren't you over-reacting just a little bit?
We are a small company and we are defintely not lining our pockets. I am the only developper of this project and we need this metric to know if the project is viable and so that we can continue to offer it for free.
YES this is freeware, because it's free for an unlimited period of time. NO it's not spyware because we do NOT collect personal information. Please stop giving this a bad review because you obviously don't fully understand the words you are using. You are hurting us when all we did was being honest and upfront with you in the license agreement.
Cheers.
Kramy reviewed vBeta 3 on Jan 21, 2006
y0himba:
They record stuff such as what OS you use. Hardly spyware, but it certainly helps knowing who you're marketing to. For example, many people with Windows XP use WMP10, while people with other OS's that listen to music prefer WinAmp. Since (95%?) of people are on WinXP now, if they have 80% WinXP, 20% other windows, then they know they're attracting a different audience. It also allows them to snag your IP(as they could do when you download it) to find out where you are in the world.
Ooh wow, you're worried about not being allowed to hack a plugin so you can use it in your favourite media converter to rip DivX stuff into something else. I personally would just download the DivX Create bundle for that, which IS listed as shareware btw.
This plugin is awesome. Way better than anything Apple has made. And unlike Quicktime, this thing doesn't dial-out whenever possible and waste system resources. Oh, and don't forget real; that one also dials out, and it has LOTS of spyware in it.
y0himba reviewed vBeta 3 on Jan 20, 2006
DivX_Al,
I did install it after disconnecting my connection, monitoring where it was trying o send to, then blocking it. I immediately uninstalled it. DivX is yesterday.
Quoting the license agreement:
"SOFTWARE INSTALLATION: When the software is installed a notification will be sent to our servers. This notification will be used to count installations of our software and is not be personally identifiable. Notifications will also be sent to our servers to measure marketing offers and general use of the software to assist Licensor in its product development and will not be personally identifiable."
You are sending information from my system, and hiding it in the much unread license aggreement. Try using a dialog that the person installing must read and press a btton to show assent. "Measure marketing offers" I will not install this to help you "market" anything and line your pockets. This is listed as FREEWARE. It is obvisouly collecting and sending information, therefore is SPYWARE.
"NO TRANSCODING: You are prohibited from using this software with a software or hardware product whose purpose is to "transcode" or convert DivX video or DivX Media Format content into an alternate format."
DivX WAS the front runner in compression for a while, now you are also trying to stifle the competition? How very Microsoft of you.
Release something truly free, and quit trying to find more ways to make money.
gate1975mlm reviewed v1.4 Beta 5 on Nov 19, 2007
This new build fixed the issue where when playing a divx video in a browser it would turn off Vista Aero skin. :)
nnellans reviewed v1.0 on Mar 14, 2006
Good job DivX team. Awesome browser support. Low system requirements ... very well done.
Use this Code Generator to help you put the Web Player on your own webpage: http://divxplugin.entwocomputing.com
some guy reviewed v1.0 on Feb 22, 2006
very nice plugin for streaming a divx on the web.
but with the file size of the Divx vs a wmv or mov or swf or flv,, I don't really think it will take off for streaming. Due to the large file size.
Kramy reviewed v1.0 on Feb 21, 2006
horsecharles: It only needs a browser - I have IE totally removed and it runs fine.
This has low resource usage! It played this vid fullscreen without maxing out my CPU when set to 5x200mhz FSB(1ghz) on an AMD Athlon XP, while only increasing the Firefox memory usage by about 10mb! For comparison, Media Player Classic used roughly 25mb for the same video, but it can play the same video on a 500mhz(with ffdshow 20041012).
horsecharles reviewed v1.0 on Feb 21, 2006
Edit: Hey, Kramy! You're right about any browser-- 'cept for Opera's latest version 9. Not as lucky as you @ resource usage, will try on more systems...Wish I could remove IE--work w/ too many sites that require it.
BTW Works on all windows versions, esp. fully patched ones: the only requirement is IE5, which came out before win98se. Does use up a LOT of resources though!
photonboy reviewed vBeta 4 on Feb 3, 2006
I gave it a four mainly because the Divx codec has not been impressing me as of late. I downloaded a few of the example trailers. They are either overcompressed or the codec is suffering. I recompressed the High-Def Shark Tales trailer from the Divx site using Nero's codec at the same size as the smaller version and Nero's codec looked much better.
I'm uninstalling it mainly because I haven't found any sites that use this yet except for the example site. My advice is don't bother installing this until website's start requiring this. (if ever)
agildehaus reviewed vBeta 4 on Jan 31, 2006
Very much improved. Only issue I ran into in the last 20 minutes was with the installer ... it tried to copy the plugin to a Mozilla Deer Park directory which no longer exists save for a reference or two in my registry, and gave me an error.
roy204_DivX reviewed vBeta 3 on Jan 21, 2006
y0himba:
You are contradicting yourself here and missing the point.
First, the license agreement is _exactly_ the place to put this information. In order to install the software you had to explicitly check a box that says you have read the license agreement and agreed to it. This is standard procedure and you are expected to be responsible for what you do when you install software on your PC.
Second, do you want to know the extent of what we "market" ? Well here it is: 1553. That's it. 1553. That's the number of installations of the plug-in there have been yesterday. That is the _only_ thing we record. And you're afraid I'm going to record your IP and go to your door to sell you a set of encyclopaedias because of that? Aren't you over-reacting just a little bit?
We are a small company and we are defintely not lining our pockets. I am the only developper of this project and we need this metric to know if the project is viable and so that we can continue to offer it for free.
YES this is freeware, because it's free for an unlimited period of time. NO it's not spyware because we do NOT collect personal information. Please stop giving this a bad review because you obviously don't fully understand the words you are using. You are hurting us when all we did was being honest and upfront with you in the license agreement.
Cheers.
Kramy reviewed vBeta 3 on Jan 21, 2006
y0himba:
They record stuff such as what OS you use. Hardly spyware, but it certainly helps knowing who you're marketing to. For example, many people with Windows XP use WMP10, while people with other OS's that listen to music prefer WinAmp. Since (95%?) of people are on WinXP now, if they have 80% WinXP, 20% other windows, then they know they're attracting a different audience. It also allows them to snag your IP(as they could do when you download it) to find out where you are in the world.
Ooh wow, you're worried about not being allowed to hack a plugin so you can use it in your favourite media converter to rip DivX stuff into something else. I personally would just download the DivX Create bundle for that, which IS listed as shareware btw.
This plugin is awesome. Way better than anything Apple has made. And unlike Quicktime, this thing doesn't dial-out whenever possible and waste system resources. Oh, and don't forget real; that one also dials out, and it has LOTS of spyware in it.
y0himba reviewed vBeta 3 on Jan 20, 2006
DivX_Al,
I did install it after disconnecting my connection, monitoring where it was trying o send to, then blocking it. I immediately uninstalled it. DivX is yesterday.
Quoting the license agreement:
"SOFTWARE INSTALLATION: When the software is installed a notification will be sent to our servers. This notification will be used to count installations of our software and is not be personally identifiable. Notifications will also be sent to our servers to measure marketing offers and general use of the software to assist Licensor in its product development and will not be personally identifiable."
You are sending information from my system, and hiding it in the much unread license aggreement. Try using a dialog that the person installing must read and press a btton to show assent. "Measure marketing offers" I will not install this to help you "market" anything and line your pockets. This is listed as FREEWARE. It is obvisouly collecting and sending information, therefore is SPYWARE.
"NO TRANSCODING: You are prohibited from using this software with a software or hardware product whose purpose is to "transcode" or convert DivX video or DivX Media Format content into an alternate format."
DivX WAS the front runner in compression for a while, now you are also trying to stifle the competition? How very Microsoft of you.
Release something truly free, and quit trying to find more ways to make money.
horsecharles reviewed vBeta 3 on Jan 20, 2006
BTW it also installs fine on win98 & ME.
Adrian79 reviewed vBeta 3 on Jan 20, 2006
yay!
DivX_Al reviewed vBeta 2 on Jan 5, 2006
y0himba,
DivX has not shipped any product with adware since July 2004. That's one and a half years ago.
There is no adware or spyware in the plug-in. "Marketing" in the EULA does not translate into "adware". We simply count how many times we display the picture we show after playback stops. Right now it says "Got DivX?", but in future we might put news about new products there, links to tutorials on DivX, or even special discounts on our other packages, movie deals, and links to new trailers. To this day, we have never advertised a third-party product in our software and we do not bundle any third-party adware components.
Each time someone goes through the license agreement, spots something about "marketing" and then jumps up and down screaming "SPYWARE!" with no justification it's increadibly frustrating for us when we don't even have to mention this in the license at all - we do it to be upfront and honest with you, unlike most products that actually do contain real adware.
Why don't you try out the product before rating it?
y0himba reviewed vBeta 2 on Jan 5, 2006
Considering DivX's track record with adware and spyware, I will not install this product. After reading the license ageement, I do NOT agree to send information to their servers so they may collect information for further "marketing" (reads ADWARE DISTRIBUTION) purposes. There are plenty of better completely freeware and open source products that contain the same and enhanced functionality. This was once a revolutinary product, it is now yet another despicable Internet attempt to line someone's pockets. Greedy people who choose to due business like this should should be ashamed.
DivxAl reviewed vBeta 2 on Jan 5, 2006
It's not limited duration.
This is a mistake in the license agreement, we're updating it right now and you'll be able to download the new installer in just a few minutes :)
randal2k reviewed vBeta 2 on Jan 5, 2006
LIMITED DURATION...
not worth my time
kevinb7852 reviewed vBeta 2 on Jan 5, 2006
In the license agreement it says "LIMITED DURATION: The License to this product is of limited duration and shall expire on March 30, 2005. After such date, this product will not be usable and its features will be unavailable to you."
Is this just an out of date section or did they mean 2006?
Guess this part of the license is what may seem to indicate spyware? SOFTWARE INSTALLATION: When the software is installed a notification will be sent to our servers. This notification will be used to track installs compared to downloads of our software and will not be personally identifiable. Components bundled with our software will enable Licensor to track certain marketing offers and to track generalized usage data to assist Licensor in its product development and will not be personally identifiable. Licensor may in the future offer updates and additional components (such as a toolbar) through our version checking/update system.
DakotaSunRunner reviewed vBeta 2 on Jan 5, 2006
This browser plugin works excellently. I use it with IE or Slim Browser and it worked just fine, clear picture etc..
Anyone who give this a bad report either does not know what they are doing or has no idea what to do.
As for myself, I am well pleased with this browser plugin and it can only get better. Keep up the good work...
roy204 reviewed vBeta 2 on Jan 5, 2006
Sorry phoenix but you are wrong. This plug-in does not contain spyware at all! I know because I wrote this pulg-in entirely. Please do not rate this badly because you did not understand the license agreement.
phoenix@2 reviewed vBeta 2 on Jan 5, 2006
Has anybody carefully read the license agreement? It contains spyware.
jackmortis reviewed vBeta 2 on Jan 5, 2006
Very..very interesting...and good..
Tested in firefox and Ie, and it works perfectly...
Tested codegenerator, and a home vídeo in my web server ...and it works like a charm...the stream is flawless and have a very good quality/speed..ratio..
A Must Have plugin, for everyone!!!
Kramy reviewed vBeta 2 on Jan 5, 2006
Funny, I downloaded earlier today(about 12h earlier) and I got the correct version.
b2 samples are here: http://download.divx.com...ugIn_Beta2_Sample1.html
Edit: Ooh, somehow it managed to find my PortableFirefox!
Edit2: This thing is using up around 50-60% of my CPU on an AMD Athlon XP 2800+
That's about 1.2ghz...and yet under Windows Media Player 9, I can barely play HD movies?
Can you say "efficient", or rather "MS inefficient"? :D
DigitAl56K reviewed vBeta 2 on Jan 5, 2006
Yes it will work with Opera, the BetaNews article is currently pointing to the old version of the plug-in and sample demonstrations.
Until it is updated use this link instead:
http://labs.divx.com/node/54
@phoenix: It does *NOT* contain spyware!
RADicalSatDude reviewed vBeta 2 on Jan 5, 2006
Will it work with Opera?
Canuckistani reviewed vBeta 1 on Dec 30, 2005
Turns out if you right-click on a movie, choose Preferences and uncheck the Alert Me box the download notification goes away. You can also enable or disable downloading altogether. This is a very nice plug-in and I'm sure we'll be seeing it used alot.
agildehaus reviewed vBeta 1 on Dec 30, 2005
Very small download for what it does, and haven't found any problems yet, but a couple complaints:
- "Got DivX" thing at the end is really unnecessary. End users wont care, content developers will learn about it without that logo.
- It's nice that it automatically saves the download to a special folder, but it's annoying that the "download complete" message can appear while viewing a movie.
Otherwise, a worthy competitor to Quicktime in a much smaller package.
KriTenKs reviewed vBeta 1 on Dec 29, 2005
Wow!
Just Great! The Loading animations are nice, It runs smoothly and is extremely fast to load!
dalmiroy2k reviewed vBeta 1 on Dec 29, 2005
Works great, it's free and under 1mb.
Recommended!
some guy reviewed vBeta 1 on Dec 29, 2005
I give it a 10 best thing I have seen in a longtime. I do multimeda demos for web design and
I have done all flash,rm,quicktime,wmv I would love to see the maker's create a frontpage plug-in to embed the video,like microsoft has don with windows media player. I think this is the best lightweght embeded player I have seen yet.The qaulity was incrediable
Great job:)
gate1975mlm reviewed vBeta 1 on Dec 29, 2005
This looks great!
I hope lots of web sites start using this!
Kramy reviewed vBeta 1 on Dec 29, 2005
Well, it's about 50mb lighter than Quicktime, so I'll give it a 5/5.
bluefiberoptics reviewed vBeta 1 on Dec 29, 2005
Wow! It's a great start! I would love for this to be used on websites instead of Windows Media Player, Quicktime, and Real Player. I seriously hope this catches on. GREAT IDEA! I love the interface.
DigitAl56K reviewed vBeta 1 on Dec 29, 2005
More sample demonstrations are available on DivX Labs:
http://labs.divx.com/archives/000072.html
Important information from the known-issues section:
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The beta plug-in may be unable to display video if other software on your computer is already using your video hardware. If you experience problems try closing media players and other open pages containing the browser plug-in.
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