Sponsoring update: DivX becomes Main Sponsor
on June 17th, 2009, by TonGreat news, DivX Inc. has signed up for our Main Sponsor offer!
Having used raw material from our previous Open Movies in the past, they’re very interested in getting Durian footage in the highest quality, including subtitles and extras, for technical tests and distribution. They will further assist us on making the best quality DivX encoded versions of our movie, also for distribution via our website.
Thanks!
(BTW, also two Gold Sponsors have signed up, check the sponsoring page)
-Ton-
June 18th, 2009 at 12:09 am
Cool !
this is great news
June 18th, 2009 at 12:50 am
I’m hoping that the movies main release format will still be an open format like ogg theora? As always, great to hear that things are moving along (-:
June 18th, 2009 at 6:21 am
Can I play divx movies on Ubuntu?
June 18th, 2009 at 6:23 am
Ok, looks like I can.
June 18th, 2009 at 7:16 am
Woow!
Some one have doubt about the susses of this project?
Really good news!
June 18th, 2009 at 10:22 am
Yeahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!
Congrats !!! yuhuuuuuuuuuuuuuu!
June 18th, 2009 at 10:26 am
Genial!
June 18th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
full steam ahead!
June 18th, 2009 at 1:17 pm
YEAH!! LOVE DivX!!! Really proud of them stepping up like that!!!
Ton, you must be happy! In my book this is a great day for Blender.
June 18th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
It´s good to see that the effors put in make productions take attention from companies like DivX, many other companies can be also interested in obtain cheap high quality movies for test or show the power of his new products.
June 18th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
Thank you DivX! Any sponsor deserves respect.
June 18th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
gran noticia…
un agradecimiento a los chicos del DivX…
saludos…
June 18th, 2009 at 10:45 pm
Wow! This is popularity, greetz 😉 I hope, that other companies, who used Peach/Orange Projects materials will also join to the party 🙂
June 19th, 2009 at 3:01 am
wow, this is great news.
open source or not, i am still for divx as a sponsor. it shows closed source formats still can benefit from open source movies. nice one Ton 😉
cool divx showcase of blender foundation open movies:
http://www.divx.com/en/downloads/divx-7-showcase
June 19th, 2009 at 3:18 pm
I’m slightly bothered by this, but I can see how funding is important to the project.
Is this likely to affect licensing of the end result? i.e., do they get a copy that isn’t CC-BY?
June 22nd, 2009 at 1:11 am
John: probably what you’ll see is that Divx will encode the mp4 version of the film (with h264/aac) using their new h264 encoder so they can show it off, and they’ll use that as a showcase piece.
(Which would be not uncommon- Big Buck Bunny appears to be the standard for HD video comparison tests- let’s hope Durian continues that.)
June 25th, 2009 at 2:39 am
Durian will be available in other video formats besides DivX, and as for licensing, I don’t see what they would gain having a non CC-BY license, all it requires is that you put a credit next to the video, further you can do what you want basically.
July 7th, 2009 at 6:40 pm
subtitle? yes! (I’m deaf myself and would like to share blender goodness with some students in Gallaudet University 😀 )