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Icemage · 08-11-2007, 04:34 PM

Practically zero chance on all 3 codecs.

WMV is Microsoft, and Sony refuses consistently to use Microsoft products when they can avoid it (notice their conspicuous refusal to use VC-1 encoding on Blu-ray movies).

Xvid and DivX codecs are commonly used to encode pirated digital copies of video content, and that's probably a political statement by Sony, though I personally think they should open things up a bit and at least allow these two.

As for importance, I don't personally care. I use PS3 Video 9 to do conversion to AVC encoding and haven't had any issues serving out the .MP4/AVC files via TVersity (which also has the nice side effect of allowing you to do fast forward/rewind/resume).

08-11-2007, 04:34 PM	#2
Icemage Blu-ray Ninja Top contributor Member since:Jul 2007	Practically zero chance on all 3 codecs. WMV is Microsoft, and Sony refuses consistently to use Microsoft products when they can avoid it (notice their conspicuous refusal to use VC-1 encoding on Blu-ray movies). Xvid and DivX codecs are commonly used to encode pirated digital copies of video content, and that's probably a political statement by Sony, though I personally think they should open things up a bit and at least allow these two. As for importance, I don't personally care. I use PS3 Video 9 to do conversion to AVC encoding and haven't had any issues serving out the .MP4/AVC files via TVersity (which also has the nice side effect of allowing you to do fast forward/rewind/resume).