DivX Video Format

What is DivX video format?

DivX video format (Digital Video Express) being XviD spelled backwards, is a brand name of products created by DivX, Inc. (formerly DivXNetworks, Inc.), including the DivX Codec which has become popular due to its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality. The DivX codec uses lossy MPEG-4 compression, where quality is balanced against file size for utility. It is one of several codecs commonly associated with ripping, whereby audio and video multimedia are transferred to a hard disk and transcoded. Many newer DivX Certified DVD players are able to play DivX encoded streaming video, although the Qpel and global motion compensation features are often omitted to reduce processing requirements. They are also excluded from the base DivX encoding profiles for compatibility reasons.

DivX video format players manufactured by Zenith Electronics, Thomson Consumer Electronics (RCA and ProScan), and Matsushita Electric (Panasonic) started to become available in the spring of 1998. Because of widespread studio support, manufacturers anticipated that demand for the units would be high. Initially, the players were approximately twice as expensive as standard DVD players, but price reductions were expected within months of release, because of economies of scale. Disregarding the DRM functionality, DivX players were technologically similar to standard DVD players. It was reported that Circuit City would increase the sales price of non-DivX players to make the DivX players seem more reasonably priced.

Any DivX Players created by the company can play this DivX video format. Applications such as Windows Media Player can access this extension, but need to install other application that uses ffdshow. With the release of DivX Web Player 1.0.1 browsers with installed plug-ins will be able to play this extension.

DivX video format is mostly used to open video files encoded in MPEG-4 ASP compression or the MPEG-4 Part 2 that are of lesser size, but still of good quality. Divx can run on cross-platform environment including PC, Mac and recently with Linux through v 6.1.1 release.

Created by DivX, Inc., DivX video format Player and codec can be downloaded for free by visiting there website. DivX 6 or simply called \DivX Media Format\ supports backward compatibility with AVI file format.

Converting a movie encoded in most DVD format to .divx extension require the use in encoding software such as Dr.DivX, VirtualDub, DVDx, and others.

Earlier free version of the software contains spywares the customers need to install to successfully use the version. The spyware include advertisements generated by Gain ad servers. This received greater criticism among users and resulted to the use of a competitor player, Xvid. Releases from DivX Pro 5.2 to the latest DivX 6 do not contain any spyware.

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