

It is one of several codecs commonly associated with "ripping", whereby audio and video multimedia are transferred to a hard disk and transcoded. The DivX codec uses lossy MPEG-4 compression, where quality is balanced against file size for utility. This was supposed to block people from ripping movies to AVI for web distribution. Microsoft originally developed the codec with an. This means that if you have a 10 MB video file, DivX changes the file size to 1 MB.ĭivX got its name from a product released by circuit city that allowed people to buy DVD movies for a cheaper price and view them for a certain time period, after that period expired, the disc would no longer play. The best part about this codec is that it offers a 10:1 compression ration. By combining MPEG 4 and MP3 sound, these video formats are digital quality.

DivX is an enhanced video codec originally created by Microsoft.
