Extended video codec support on iPhone (DivX, XviD, etc)

When will the Apple add support for more widely used video codecs? E.g.
DivX
XviD
WMV
I know, I know H264 is a pretty darn good codec, but I do have quite a few flics in DivX and other formats and I don't wanna hassle with converting them.
The lack of video and audio (flac, ogg, wma) codec support is really a turn down!!

Divx and wmv are proprietary codecs.
Apple supports and uses open industry standards-such as
mpeg4/h.264.

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What's an ECR?
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