DivX

DivX is a brand name of products developed by the company called DivX, Inc. The former name of the company is DivXNetworks, Inc. DivX Codec is a popular product by DivX, Inc. due to its ability to compress long video segments and convert them into smaller files without having to trade-off visual quality.

MPEG-4 Part 2 allows the DivX Codec to compress the videos. This result to good video quality matched with a good file size for improved utility. The DivX Codec is usually associated with ripping where video and audio files are transcoded and moved to a hard disk.

The DivX recently gained an expansion into the DivX 6. Such expansion has allowed the addition of a media container format to be compatible with simply a codec and a player. The expansion has also led to the discovery of a new optional file format introduced together with the DivX 6. This file is referred to as the DivX Media Format or DMF with a “.divx” extension to the file name.

A new technology has emerged from the DivX Media format and is now called the DivX Ultra Certified profile. The DivX Ultra certified profiles support all the DivX Media Format features.

When users encode with the use of the DivX Codec, the files released as MPEG-4 video stream. The DMF format is similar to other multimedia container formats such as Apple’s Quicktime.

If a user wants to get the DivX Codec and DivX player for free, this is possible through the DivX webtsite. The advantage that paying customers will get is the access to additional features on the DivX Codec in the DivX Pro. The DivX Pro is the commercially registered version.

Paying customers will also be able to access the DivX Converter. Such converter features a one-click encoding application that will allow better viewability of extremely compressed quick-motion scenes.