Progressive DivX Playback does work!!!
Posted by Charbax on July 12th, 2007
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Thanks to ArchosLounge.net for doing these tests!!
Why does support for the progressive download of DivX in the AVI container matter so much? Well this means you can access all videos from the whole Internet immediately on the Archos without waiting for the download to be completed. And once you have finished playing it once it is stored on your Archos so that you can watch it again without having to re-download it.
What this means is, if you have a collection of terrabytes of DivX films at your home, using a low power router with a HTTP server on it, and connecting NAS or usb-hard drives to that router, or having your computer always-on at home hosting this HTTP server, this means you could access all your personal collection of terrabytes of DivX films from all over the Internet, you could password protect it for security, thus having instant worldwide access to your complete personal multimedia collection, as long as your home broadband internet connection has at least 1-2mbit/s upload, enough to provide at least as much upload bitrate as most of the videos in your collection are. I have 2mbit/s upload, so this will work great for me. This is better than ORB, Slingbox, AMD Live and Sony TV Anywhere since this is native full DivX instant playback.