DivX
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| Filename extension | .divx |
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| Type code | DIVX |
| Developed by | DivX, Inc. |
| Type of format | Media container |
| Container for | MPEG-4 Part 2–compliant video |
| Extended from | AVI |
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| Developer(s) | DivX, Inc. |
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| Stable release |
10.7.2 / 10 January 2017
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| Operating system | Windows |
| Type | Media player |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | divx |
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| Developer(s) | DivX, Inc. |
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| Stable release |
10.7.2 / 10 January 2017
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| Operating system | Windows |
| Type | Video converter |
| License |
Converter: Freeware Converter Pro: Proprietary commercial software |
| Website | divx |
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| Developer(s) | DivX, Inc. |
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| Stable release |
3.7.2 / 10 January 2017
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| Operating system | Windows |
| Type | Media player |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | divx |
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| Developer(s) | DivX, Inc. |
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| Last release |
9.1.2 (Build 1.9.0.555) / 10 June 2013
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| Development status | Discontinued |
| Operating system | Mac OS X |
| Type | Media player |
| License | Freeware |
| Website | Removed |
DivX is a brand of video codec products developed by DivX, LLC. The DivX codec is notable for its ability to compress lengthy video segments into small sizes while maintaining relatively high visual quality.
There are three DivX codecs; the original MPEG-4 Part 2 DivX codec, the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC DivX Plus HD codec and the High Efficiency Video Coding DivX HEVC Ultra HD codec.
The most recent version of the codec itself is version 6.9.2, which is several years old. New version numbers on the packages now reflect updates to the media player, converter, etc.
The "DivX" brand is distinct from "DIVX", which is an obsolete video rental system developed by Circuit City Stores that used custom DVD-like discs and players. The winking emoticon in the early "DivX ;-)" codec name was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the DIVX system. Although not created by them, the DivX company adopted the name of the popular DivX ;-) codec. The company dropped the smiley and released DivX 4.0, which was actually the first DivX version, trademarking the word, DivX.
DivX ;-) (not DivX) 3.11 Alpha and later 3.xx versions refers to a hacked version of the Microsoft MPEG-4 Version 3 video codec (not to be confused with MPEG-4 Part 3) from Windows Media Tools 4 codecs. The video codec, which was actually not MPEG-4 compliant, was extracted around 1998 by French hacker Jerome Rota (also known as Gej) at Montpellier. The Microsoft codec originally required that the compressed output be put in an ASF file. It was altered to allow other containers such as Audio Video Interleave (AVI). Rota hacked the Microsoft codec because newer versions of the Windows Media Player would not play his video portfolio and résumé that were encoded with it. Instead of re-encoding his portfolio, Rota and German hacker Max Morice decided to reverse engineer the codec, which "took about a week".
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