Posted by Jukka Aho on 12/16/05 19:43

Wilbur Post wrote:

> I have the codec but how is Xvid related to Divx, if at all?

See <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xvid> and especially
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivXNetworks>.

DivX is a commercial, closed-source MPEG-4 variant with a shady
past [1]. XviD is an open source fork of that. (It's all clear
as mud.)

[1] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divx#History>

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