Is XviD Dead?

Is XviD still used in 2017? Do any of you prefer to use XviD to encode your videos, or to watch a movie encoded with XviD instead of x264? Are there any good reasons to still use XviD instead of a modern codec like x264?

Look on the XviD forum :) There's still some people using it for old hardware. Makes me nostalgic!

I myself still use DivX :devil: 6.8.5. It's fine for some short clips (up to 30 minutes) @720p :)

I'm still waiting for RealVideo 11.

@orion44 I use it and love Xvid. And 90 percent of my Clients demand Xvid, only a handfull want x264 ;) So, to answer your question "Is Xvid dead ?", my answer is: No :) @Blue_MisFit Where did you get that Story with "old Hardware" from ? Xvid runs perfect on older and up to date Hardware with no problems, inform yourself, okay ;) Cheers Mick

@Groucho2004 Blue_MisFits wrote: "There's still some people using it for old hardware." What has "old Hardware" to do with the Xvid Codec ? I did read his Post and understood it, okay ? ;) If not, well then enlighten me what i did not catch. Cheers Mick

@Groucho2004 Okay, big misunderstanding here, okay ? First, with "inform yourself" i meant something different, not what you thought. Second, i did not try to make "Blue_MisFits" look stupid, you got that in the wrong channel. Third, if you think my reply "makes no sense", fine, i can live with that and I hope we are clear now, no hard feelings, okay ? Cheers Mick P.S.: QuickSync is needed for a fluent work with x264 stuff, older Hardware does not have that Feature ;)

I do not think that XviD is dead. What is interesting AMD's UVD hardware decoded H.264 first (UVD1 and later) and Xvid later (UVD3 and above). I am pretty sure that Xvid's peak popularity was some years ago anyway. Less and less popular? Yes. Dead? No.

XviD has unofficial version.

Development still seems somewhat active: