@CommonOddity
DivX/XviD is the standard for most pirated content on Bittorrent, not may other places. A lot of DVD players have support for DivX just as they have for MP3, knowing full well most of the content played this way is not legit.
However, increasingly even here, for high-quality torrents, they are tipping to H264, especailly when ripping from Blue-Ray, which is H264 to begin with.
DivX/XviD are non-starters in the Streaming space, which is a big segment on the web, not just with YouTube, and will be moreso as broadband uptake and speeds increase. Hopefully we will get a National Broadband Network at around 100mbps here in Australia, it is up in the air with current political machinations even though it is currently being rolled out.
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