Confusion about DivX players

[Iceman]

Are you sure you have the platinum version???

[zogmool]

How exactly is one player better than another? How is that possible when the same decompressor is doing the decompressing?<BR><BR>I've tested back and forth with the media player, global, the DivX player in the bundle, and one called nostra, and they are all exactly the same other than their interfaces. They each put out better or worse picture based upon what the settings for the codec are. The CPU usage is identical. I have no idea why people suggest a different player. The only player that was any different was the player in the bundle in which you can set the post processing setting, which can also be done in the codec's settings.<BR><BR>Does anyone know of a real difference beyond the GUI? I mean: do they even do anything other than act as front-ends?

[Iceman]

Some pieces of software are much better than others as they can do things to the piture that the codec doesn't. For instance they can tweak the picture and change the way it is interlaced etc. Most Divx players access the move directly from the codec and the only difference is the GUI. Something like WinDVD 4 Platnum has its own Divx stuff and it looks much better than using another player

[zogmool]

Interesting, I'll have to try out WinDVD then. Thanks Iceman.

[zogmool]

Hm... I still don't notice any visible difference. It's very slightly more CPU intensive, and videos using QP sometimes hit 100% CPU use causing it to skip frames, which doesn't happen in WMP, though it comes close. As for it's deinterlacing abillities; I've never seen an interlaced DivX file.<BR><BR>As an experiment, I selected a DivX file causing it's preview to come up, then opened one in winDVD. As I'd expected, the WMP logo screen came up, while it searched for a usable codec, just like in the older version.