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DivX Video Format Explained

There's a company called DivX, Inc,play on the new Windows Media Player at
formerly the DivXNetworks, Inc. thatthat time, reverse-engineered the MPEG4
introduced the DivX family of videoformat together with a German Hacker Max
codecs. Made extremely popular becauseMorice to come up with an MPEG4 format
of its ability to produce high qualityencapsulated in AVI instead of the ASF
video using lossy MPEG4 Part2it originally had. It only took them a
compression or MPEG4 ASP, DivX hasweek. Between 1998 and 2002, the DVD
cemented itself as one of the mosthacking community had independent
popular multimedia codec for the homehackers enhance the format that later
market.came to have the Divx with a smiley
DivX is known to create a balanceemoticon  attached as
between quality and file size with itsversion 3.0.
highly efficient compression abilities.In 2000, Rota was hired by Jorda
And because of that, it s one of theGreenhall to form a company called
codecs used for ripping where audio andDivXNetworks (later renamed to DivX,
video are copied from a source to the PCInc.) based in the French Riviera. The
hard disk for archiving and transcoding.association resulted in the OpenDivX
The commercial DivX competes withcodec a year later. Its source code was
Microsoft's Video for Windows in WMV,open to anyone and could be downloaded
Apple's QuickTime in the MOV andfrom the website. The following year,
RealNetwork's Real Video in the RMM filethe two left for San Diego and developed
formats. An open source version releasedthe OpenDivX software to become DivX
by Xvid solutions in 2001 is the Xvidversion 4.0. Other developers took the
file format.Encore2 software to enhance the open
While DivX has long been renowned forsource OpenDivX to arrive at the rival
its excellent video quality, its freeXvid format.maintained by Xvid
and open source equivalent Xvid todaySolutions, Inc.
offers comparable quality, also based onThe DivX Company continued to enhance
MPEG-4 Part 2 (MPEG-4 ASP). In a seriesthe DivX software that in 2002 has taken
of subjective quality tests aton the fifth version. By 2004, the
Doom9.org, the DivX codec has beenfeatures of the DivX format are as
successively beaten by Xvid every yearcomplete as we know it today. In May
since 2003.[11]2007, the Windows Vista version DivX 6.6
Confusion clarifiedfor the PC and the Mac was released.
DivX are two different things from twoThe advantages and benefits of using
different companies. One is DIVX createdDivX
by Circuit City, a US electronics retailDivX found itself at the heart of video
giant that attempted to market a DVDpiracy in the late 90s as its format
rental system that used special playersbecame widely popular for ripping
and discs. And the other is the DivXcopyrighted DVD materials for bootleg
multimedia codec trademarked andreplication and distribution. A number
marketed by DivX, Inc. which is actuallyof generic DVD players as well as
a reference to the failed Circuit Citybranded ones are claiming to play DivX
system.materials.
A short historyWhat's so appealing about the format is
DivX roots can be traced back to 1998 asthat it's free. Same with the software
a hacked version of Microsoft's MPEG4players you can use to play it with. It
version 3 which is inferior to the MPEG4belongs to the open source community
that we know today. It was a Frenchtogether with Xvid offering competitive
hacker Jerome Rota who, rather thanif not better quality.
modify his video resume which could not



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