Is XviD Dead?

LOL yeah I was referring to old hardware DVD players with MPEG-4 Part 2 support. These were popular in the mid 2000s before H.264 / AVC had mainstream hardware support. Lots of people use these old DVD players for playing backups from CD / DVD / USB! It's perfectly useful hardware. Anything being sold today certainly supports AVC.

Why people waste their time and resources to convert a playable format into a possible-but-not-sure format is still a mystery to me... As Xvid is a privately-developed codec there are very few sources that provide native support (I know none but I do not exclude the possibility). On the other hand, all commercial hardware can play the commercial sources, like MPEG-2/VOB/TS/M2TS or even AVC/MPEG-4/etc... The price of kWh is ~0.30-0.35€. The price of storage is less than 30€/TB for HDD and less than 0.5€/GB for SD cards and/or USB sticks. The average loan is 35€/h. And now it's getting warmer and warmer, so even the excuse of using the CPU at 100% for hours to heat the rooms will fall...