Special: DivX Video

DivX 5.0
Video codec for Windows, Linux and MacOS. Go

Media Player Classic
Patched version of Windows Media Player 6.4. Supports subtitles, free aspect ratios and AC3 sound via SPDIF. Go

Vidomi
Vidomi makes and plays TV quality XviD and DivX™ MPEG4 video from your existing source files. Go

Doom9: Guides to DivX encoding
Some good tutorials about DVD rippting, DivX, (S)VCDs and XviD encoding. Great resource for everything related to DivX video coding. Go

DivX:-) 3.11 Alpha

The first and ’original’ DivX codec was a patched version of Microsoft’s MPEG-4 version 3 codec. As we have seen in the book this MS codec did not produce ISO-compliant MPEG-4 video. DivX:-) 3.11 removed the limitation to the ASF-file format introduced by Microsoft with MPEG-4 V3.

The low motion version was based on another version of MS MPEG-4 V3 than the fast motion version of DivX;-) 3.11. Since both versions are bitstream-compatible they can be played by the same decoders.

DivX:-) 3.22

This version of DivX was supplemented with a feature that automatically inserts keyframes when scene changes are detected (Scene Change Detection Patch)

OpenDivX

After they patched the Microsoft codec Jérôme ’Gej’ Rota and others founded DivXNetworks. First they initated ’Project Mayo’ and started to develop the open-source project OpenDivX. This codec was based on a european MPEG-4 reference implementation, and because of this was fully incompatible to the DivX codecs.

DivX 4.0

With DivX 4.0 DivXNetworks stopped the support of the OpenDivX project. The coding efficiency was generally below the predecessors DivX:-) 3.11 and 3.22, but it was compatible to them.

DivX 5.0

The first commercial product of DivXNetworks encodes ISO-compliant MPEG-4 streams. The free basic version of DivX 5.0 produces MPEG-4 streams according to the ’MPEG-4 Simple Profile’. DivX 5.0 pro codes for 30$ according to the ’MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile’.

XviD

This open source project is based on OpenDivX. It is developed indepent of DivXNetworks and provides not the same coding efficiency like DivX 5.0. Nevertheless it is besoming more and more popular.

DIV3

DIV4

DX50

DIVX

RMP4

XVID

ffdshow
DirectShow DivX-filter for decoding DivX:-) 3-5, MS MPEG-4 v1-v3 and XviD. Go

FOURCC codes
Full list of all FOURCCs of AVI files. Go

GSpot
A little tool that displays the FOOURCC of an AVI file and also if the cidec is installed correctly. Go