It’s not exactly new news as there have been several beta versions and an alpha already released, but I decided to sign up so that I could download it for the first time this past weekend.

I’m talking about the latest DivX 7.0 package which now includes an h.264 codec for playback on its included DivX media player.  I played a few minutes of a a 720p movie I had and it worked, so yay for that.

I also joined their new project team and downloaded the DivX h.264 CLI encoder they have.  I’ve not used it yet, but I think I’ll give it a test run on the next DVD/BluRay disc I get.  I’ll see if I can do a comparison test using similar encoding methods with the x264 encoder.  They both go use the same frame serving and scripting software, so it may not be that hard.  I’ll post my results if and when I get around to doing that.