Beware New Samsung TVs
I found out the hard way, that Samsung has taken away technology features in the have limited the digital formats that can be played on their TV's. Apparently started with 2018 models. My new Samsun...
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gosh I haven't heard of xvid in a long time. It was one of the earliest "open" h.264 implementations, copying the commercial divx codec, and quite impressive at the time (early 2000s) Since that time better implementations have come along, so it's not really relevant anymore. According to Wikipedia, any playback device that supports MPEG4-ASP can play xvid encoded content.
DTS is a licensed technology, so maybe Samsung doesn't want to pay to license it, or doesn't want to implement one of the open source decoders? That does seem odd. DTS and Dolby are both very old, but DTS is far from on its way out. Some of the best sounding movie discs' I've watched recently used DTS-MA, they sound great even though my system is setup for Dolby Atmos
DTS is a licensed technology, so maybe Samsung doesn't want to pay to license it, or doesn't want to implement one of the open source decoders? That does seem odd. DTS and Dolby are both very old, but DTS is far from on its way out. Some of the best sounding movie discs' I've watched recently used DTS-MA, they sound great even though my system is setup for Dolby Atmos
