![]() In 2005 the Digital Digest DivX FAQ (which could not be found as of December, 2011) reported "The original DivX 3.xx codec is based on Microsoft's MPEG-4 V3 codec (ASF was based on MPEG-4 V2). The version 6.x series was launched in December 2005 and as of March 2012, the latest version for Windows is 6.8.5. DivX 4 was released in 2001, DivX5 in March 2002, and version 5.1 in the latter half of 2003. In 2001, DixXNetworks launched a "covert" website that led to the creation of OpenDivX, an open source project eventually called XVID. The Official DivX 5.1 Guide indicates that Jérôme Rota began work on DivX in 1999, with an eye toward fitting a feature film on a compact disk and/or making it easy to disseminate films on the web. Version 5 of the DivX codec is reported to also use DX50. DIVX was used in versions 4 and later of the DivX codec. In March 2012, the others are listed at, with various annotations discouraging use of DIV3, DIV4, and DIV5 as obsolete. Only the first of these FOURCC codes (DIVX) was was registered to DivX at the Microsoft registry of FOURCC and WAVE codes before Microsoft stopped maintaining the registry. Used when this codec is wrapped in Microsoft file formats, e.g., AVI and ASF. More information on picture size and quality is provided in the Wikipedia article on DivX, although this may feature information about version 6.x.įile type signifiers and format identifiers Moderate, varies according to levels of compression and picture size the maximum of which is about four megapixels, with no dimension exceeding 8,188 pixels. Not applicable provided by wrapper formats.Īccording to the Wikipedia article on DivX, consulted in December 2011 (possibly referring to version 6.x), "DivX Video on Demand (DivX VOD) is DivX's version of digital rights management (DRM), which allows content owners to control distribution." Additional information available in the Wikipedia article on DivX, consulted in December 2011.ĭepends upon algorithms and tools to read will require sophistication to build tools. In 2006, a page on the Web site ( not available in December 2011) described licensing arrangements as free for personal use and fee-based for commercial uses. "ĭivX software is distributed under license from the company the compiler of this page is uncertain as to whether the codec itself is protected. See Useful References below.Īn FAQ (link available through Internet Archive) from the Ligos Corporation, distributors of the competing Indeo codec, includes this statement: "Many video files being distributed over the Internet use the DivX AVI format. Proprietary standard with some public documentation Generally used as an end-user delivery format.ĭivX_4 video codec, not documented at this time.ĭivX_6 video codec, not documented at this time. Note: DivX 6.x codecs were released beginning in late 2005 not yet investigated for this Web site. The Official DivX 5.1 Guide says "the DivX 5 series encoder is an implementation of the MPEG4 Video Standard supporting both simple profile and advanced simple profile encoding. As of 2005, the DivX (formerly DivXNetworks) Web site described the encoding as based on the MPEG-4 standard DivX version 5.0 was released in March 2002 version 5.1 during 2003. Bitstream encoding for video initially developed by the French video engineer Jérôme Rota, aka Gej.
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