Stage6 - The Divx YouTube

dokidoki · Post by **dokidoki** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 12:31 am

madbunny wrote:"to view this video please install DIVX"
Too bad I won't get to see these videos.

As devilmaykickass said, you can download the original file. I don't see a download button, but it's in the HTML.

Go to video page.
View source.
Search for "Download Video".
At the moment there's an empty a tag with the filename -- download it.
Play. (works on my machine with CCCP installed)

OniZabuza · Post by **OniZabuza** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 1:04 am

wow madbunny... that's actually kinda scary... jeez

Radical_Yue · Post by **Radical_Yue** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 2:15 am

OniZabuza wrote:wow madbunny... that's actually kinda scary... jeez

Ahhh! The age of the Matrix has come!

Okay, who wants to be Neo?

devilmaykickass · Post by **devilmaykickass** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:55 am

Eh, DivX has been evil for awhile now. No matter though since the quality is awesome.

Gepetto · Post by **Gepetto** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:02 am

Sure, sell your soul to the Devil while you're at it, in exchange for a high-quality Sailor Moon S blueray disc.

Scintilla · Post by **Scintilla** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 8:08 pm

devilmaykickass wrote:Eh, DivX has been evil for awhile now. No matter though since the quality is awesome.

But is it anything you can't get with a less evil codec, such as XviD?

... and it seems that somebody fixed the filter so that my attempts no longer work. D'oh. Youtube?

... Or they just edited my post. Let me just state for the record that I irrationally hate that website just as much as anyone else here.

Coderjo · Post by **Coderjo** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 10:42 pm

dokidoki wrote:
madbunny wrote:"to view this video please install DIVX"
Too bad I won't get to see these videos.
As devilmaykickass said, you can download the original file. I don't see a download button, but it's in the HTML.

Go to video page.
View source.
Search for "Download Video".
At the moment there's an empty a tag with the filename -- download it.
Play. (works on my machine with CCCP installed)

Without installing their crap, you can get a "download video" link if you use firefox and greasemonkey. Just use this script I wrote the other day. Once you have it installed, you can load any video page there, and you'll get the "please install" message over the still image, but above that, at the right side, there will be a blue box with a download link.

Enjoy.

Coderjo · Post by **Coderjo** » Wed Sep 13, 2006 11:56 pm

Coderjoe wrote:Without installing their crap, you can get a "download video" link if you use firefox and greasemonkey. Just use this script I wrote the other day.

*sigh* when the userscripts site isn't down, anyway. Perhaps I should upload a copy elsewhere.

unastrike · Post by **unastrike** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 1:50 pm

I'm really not looking for a spitting match, but I think madbunny's commentary on the Privacy Policy is a bit slanted... By taking a sentence or two from the original text, sure, it's easy to form a biased opinion.

Example:

madbuddy wrote:Disclose any information about you without your prior consent

Sure that looks bad, but when factoring in the original text:

Divx wrote:Disclose any information about you without your prior consent if we have a good faith belief that such disclosure is reasonably necessary to (1) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or enforceable government request, including subpoenas from private parties in a civil action; (2) detect, prevent or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues; (3) enforce the provisions of this Privacy Policy and/or any other agreements between you and DivX, including investigation of potential violations thereof; or (4) protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of DivX, its visitors and/or the public.

If Divx is presented with a subpoenea, of course they're gonna cough up what kind of info they have. Same deal if you're hacking their junk or otherwise violating their ToS.

There's a few more examples... most of them end with "this information is not personally identifiable to you".

I don't know, I just don't see anything all that damnable in their ToS or Privacy Policy. It's all pretty straightforward and typical... that is, if you read the full text. Give it a read, but read the full text.

I can certainly appreciate the desire to steer clear from bloatware and/or marketing-centric software. I stay away from programs like AIM for the very same reason. Ideally I'd love to have an open-source, ad-free alternative, but I don't think that's even realistic.

All-in-all, this just seems like a viable option to hosting high quality videos... for free.

madbunny · Post by **madbunny** » Thu Sep 14, 2006 2:04 pm

unastrike wrote:I'm really not looking for a spitting match, but I think madbunny's commentary on the Privacy Policy is a bit slanted... By taking a sentence or two from the original text, sure, it's easy to form a biased opinion.

It is indeed slanted. In my defence I did point out that I emphasized some areas and omitted some things. Bear in mind though, that all of those, including the one that you used for an example leaves the decision up to them, and can be changed by them. Essentially it's a DRM agreement, much like all the others out there. Probably most people won't really notice much. at least they don't seem to bundle gator shit with their stuff anymore.

It's still evil.