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DIVX (Digital Video Express) is a discontinued digital video format. Created in part by Circuit City, it was an unsuccessful attempt to create an alternative to video ...
DivX, LLC (/ ˈ d ɪ v ɪ k s /; also formerly known as DivXNetworks, Inc. and DiVX, Inc.) is a privately held video technology company based in San Diego, California. DivX, LLC is best known as a producer of three codecs: an MPEG-4 Part 2 -based codec , the H.264/MPEG-4 AVC DivX Plus codec and the High Efficiency Video Coding DivX HEVC Ultra ...
Some are combinations of common container formats and audio and video coding profiles, such as AVCHD and DivX formats. Although sometimes compared to DivX products, Xvid is neither a container format nor a video format, it is a software library that encodes video using specific coding profiles of the common MPEG-4 ASP video format. Those types ...
Dr. DivX: DivX, Inc. Adware bundled 15-day trial: Yes: Yes: No DVDVideoSoft Free Studio: DVDVideoSoft: Shareware (requires paid membership for basic operation) Yes: No: No FFmpeg: FFmpeg project: LGPL-2.1-or-later and GPL-2.0-or-later: Yes: Yes: Yes FormatFactory: Chen Jun Hao: Freeware (ad supported) Yes: No: No Freemake Video Converter: Freemake
DivX received $15.7 million during the first nine months of 2007 from Yahoo and other software developers, after 250 million downloads. [ 8 ] Chester Ng, the former DivX business development director, is chief business officer and Mark Chweh, former DivX engineering director, is chief technology officer .
When version 4.0 of DivX was released, the codec went commercial and the need for a free codec, Xvid (then called "XviD", "DivX" backwards), was created. Later, Xvid replaced DivX entirely. Although the DivX codec has evolved from version 4 to 10.6 during this time, it is banned [3] in the warez scene due to its commercial nature.
Different versions of DivX were also compared. The Xvid results may be erroneous, as deblocking was disabled for it while used for DivX. Subjective Comparison of Modern Video Codecs Scientifically accurate subjective comparison using 50 experts and SAMVIQ methodology 2006 Feb. DivX 6.0, Xvid 1.1.0, x264, WMV 9.0 (2 bitrates for every codec)
Anticipating legal action, DivX filed a preemptive lawsuit against UMG on September 6, 2007, asking for a declaratory ruling to affirm Stage6's legality under DMCA safe harbor provisions. Six weeks later, UMG filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against DivX, arguing that their trial was the appropriate venue for DivX's question to be answered.