DivX is a new format for digital video, much like MP3 is a format for digital music. DivX® is the brand name of a patent-pending video compression technology created by DivXNetworks, Inc. The DivX® codec (short for compression-decompression) is based on the MPEG-4 compression standard. This codec is so advanced that it can reduce an MPEG-2 video (the same format used for DVD or Pay-Per-View) to ten percent of its original size. Video on regular VHS tapes can be reduced to about one hundredth of their original size. Read more...
Changelog: A bug that would cause the codec to encode every frame as an I-Frame when used with certain applications (e.g., AVIUtil, DVD2AVI, and some video capture applications) has been fixed. Download