Stage 6 - YouTube for Divx 

I recently heard about a new video sharing site form the makers of Divx, called Stage6. Yes!!! I have been using Divx for years - having downloaded many a video in this very effecient and high quality codec. It;s good to see that they have finally devloped a web plugin too.

Try watching a clip on Stage6, then double click the video in the browser - bingo - beautiful fullscreen!!

I noticed that some people think Divx is a new codec, with limited adoption. Arguabl, it was developed for movie pirates, so they could fit a whole movie onto a standard 700mb writeable CD. Since we saw the introduction of DVD writers, the pirates began to upload larger higher quality versions. Also HD televisions have also seen the quality of TV show uploads increase in the (binaries) newsgroups. (I have been 'monitoring' the pirates' progress for quite some time now, ever since I inadvertently downloaded a whole movie, years ago, thinking it was a big promo to some film I had never heard of in the UK. That movie was the Matrix :) How apt. It 'had' me.

My Archos portable media players support Divx, and it's open source cousin, Xvid. There are loads of free tols out there to help convert video to this format. I'd really like to see more apodtion of Divx in the public. It;s already very popular out there , but possibly for the wrong reasons. Rather like MP3 adoption was really driven by illegal use.

Avast me hearties!!!! Arrrrrr!!! (I'm in Somerset at the moment, where we all talk loike pirates! heh)

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Who has put the most MP3 players in people's pockets? 

Mobile phone manufacturers like Nokia, Motorola and Sony Ericsson, etc. That's who. Not Apple.

And with more 'all you can' eat data plans out there, and mobile handsets supporting 802.11* Wifi networks, the device you already have in your pocket makes the perfect device to consume most media types.

I wish more supported OGG Vorbis too. It surprises me that they don't, as they don't have to pay Fraunhofer for a licence.

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metaweblog API in OPML.org blogs? 

Has anyone out there had any luck in using the metaWeblog API to post to their OPML.org blog?

I can do it with Wordpress, and I assumed Dave's system would support it. There are references to it in the .root files.

I tried send an xmlrpc message to:

rpc.opml.org with a path of /RPC2 to port 5337

I got the reply that metaWeblog was not defined.

I was trying to send the method: metaWeblog.newPost with the appropriate parameters

Anyone out there got any ideas?

I'm stuck. Thanks.

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