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| * A company (DivX, Inc.) | * A company (DivX, Inc.) | ||
| - | * A brand name of commercial software products made by DivX, Inc. (e.g. the DivX Player or DivX Pro Codec). | + | * A brand name of commercial software products made by DivX, Inc. (e.g. the DivX Plus Player or DivX Pro Codec). |
| - | * An MPEG-4 ASP codec – the DivX Codec (in several variants such as the DivX Pro Codec) is a software product made by DivX, Inc. | + | * An MPEG-4 ASP codec(nbsp)– the DivX Codec (in several variants such as the DivX Pro Codec) is a software product made by DivX, Inc. |
| * Trademark of DivX, Inc. (that is, you cannot use the DivX name in the names of your products etc.) | * Trademark of DivX, Inc. (that is, you cannot use the DivX name in the names of your products etc.) | ||
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| * Open-source or free software. | * Open-source or free software. | ||
| - | The DivX Codec is a commercial piece of software that encodes and decodes MPEG-4 ASP video. Note that software is not a format – "supporting DivX" does not mean "supporting video encoded with the DivX codec", it means supporting the software product made by DivX, Inc., for example by allowing a video editor to use the DivX codec for encoding and/or decoding. | + | The DivX Codec is a commercial piece of software that encodes and decodes MPEG-4 ASP video (newer versions also support MPEG-4(nbsp)AVC, alias H.264). Note that software is not a format – "supporting DivX" does not mean "supporting video encoded with the DivX codec", it means supporting the software product made by DivX, Inc., for example by allowing a video editor to use the DivX codec for encoding and/or decoding. |
| DivX is currently available for Windows and Mac OS. Avidemux is multiplatform, developed primarily on Linux and all codecs it uses are open-source and free. DivX is not available for Linux anymore (an "unofficial" version for developers has been released in 2006) and it's not free (as in Free Software). The older Linux version also did not work properly, with no reaction from the DivX company for 3 years. That's why Avidemux does not support it. | DivX is currently available for Windows and Mac OS. Avidemux is multiplatform, developed primarily on Linux and all codecs it uses are open-source and free. DivX is not available for Linux anymore (an "unofficial" version for developers has been released in 2006) and it's not free (as in Free Software). The older Linux version also did not work properly, with no reaction from the DivX company for 3 years. That's why Avidemux does not support it. | ||
| - | However, as DivX just uses MPEG-4 ASP video compression, it is compatible with other MPEG-4 ASP codecs. The two open-source and free MPEG-4 ASP codecs used by Avidemux are FFmpeg MPEG-4 (built-in, used for decoding and encoding) and Xvid (external, optionally used for encoding). Both are good, feature rich and compatible with DivX to a great degree (although not 100%), thanks to the MPEG-4 standard. | + | However, as DivX just uses MPEG-4 ASP video compression, it is compatible with other MPEG-4 ASP codecs. The two open-source and free MPEG-4 ASP codecs used by Avidemux are FFmpeg MPEG-4 (built-in, used for decoding and encoding) and Xvid (external, optionally used for encoding). Both are good, feature rich and compatible with DivX, thanks to the MPEG-4 standard. |
| **Summary:** | **Summary:** | ||
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