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· I bought a hardware player that had 'XviD compatible' printed on the box but it doesn't play many of my XviD files - what's that?
This is a problem we're aware of, also see our public announcement regarding hardware devices. Up to now, we don't know of any device on the market that would be fully compliant to XviD, so would be able to play all XviD encoded content.
Therefore we cannot truly recommend buying any of such devices and because of this we also never gave permission to any hardware manufacturer so far to advertise their products as being 'XviD compliant'. Unfortunately, even though XviD's logo and name are protected by copyright and trademark law, nonetheless some manufacturers advertise their products as 'XviD compliant' without auhorization. Therefore, before buying any of such devices you should look for information about what the devices are really capable of in order to decide whether they really suit your needs. A good starting point for further information and discussion is the 'hardware players' forum at doom9.org: http://forum.doom9.net
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