Technical
Stage6 accepted DivX or Xvid encoded files up to 1080p60. Stage6 rejected encoded videos not mixed with MP2 or MP3 audio. Upload file size limit for an individual video was 2 Gigabytes. The download speeds from Stage6 ranged up to and above 16 MBit/s.
The video playback was based on the DivX codec and required the user to download and install a web browser plug-in in order to view video. Since the DivX Web Player was designed specifically for viewing videos, streamed on extremely high quality, high resolution videos were made possible under comparatively low CPU usage.
Downloaded videos could also be played-back with third-party media players such as Windows Media Player, if a MPEG-4 decoder is installed on the computer, or with media players such as VLC Media Player or MPlayer with appropriate web plugins. Certain downloaded videos could also be played on a PlayStation 3 or Xbox 360 with current firmware by renaming the extension '.divx' from the downloaded file to '.avi'.
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