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Introduction
Welcome to the guide
Welcome to the official guide to DivX
With this guide we shall be demystifying the black-art of DivX encoding - leading
you step by step through everything from creating your very first DivX video to
exploiting the many powerful advanced features that DivX has to offer.
This guide covers all of the features available in both the DivX and DivX Pro
encoders in detail. You will learn how to optimize video quality via the encoder
and where to use the EKG for even further enhancement.
We will discuss the DivX Certified Program and how you can create videos
compatible with the growing range of DivX Certified DVD players that are set to
take the consumer market by storm in 2004. We will also show you how to
configure the DivX decoder to improve the playback of DivX videos on your
personal computer.
Before we begin it is worth noting the outstanding pedigree of DivX video
technology. What follows will bring you up to date on over four years of DivX
history.
The origins of DivX
In 1999, French video engineer Jérôme Rota (better known by the alias "Gej")
began experimenting with a powerful new video technologies.
The "MS MPEG4" codec from Microsoft, a video compression technology then
new to market, was limited to storing video data inside their proprietary ASF
(advanced systems format) container file. Gej wanted to use a high-quality video
codec in combination with standard AVI (audio video interleave) containers,
which would enable nearly all video editing applications to benefit from new
compression.
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