If you’re a regular PC user and haven’t heard of DivX yet, then you’ve probably had your head in the sand for the past couple of years. It’s basically a highly compressed film format that turns the size of an average DVD from something like 5GB to just 700MB.
DivX for Windows is the official release from the DivX company, and offers everything you need to watch such films. The pack includes the all-important DivX Codec plus DivX Player, DivX Web Player and the Stage6 Content Uploader Utility for those who plan to rip and upload DVDs or other videos to the net. It also includes a 15-day trial of the DivX Converter and the DivX Pro Codec. All these components are free and include no adware although during the installation
The DivX Play Bundle gives you everything you need to start watching high-quality DivX videos, including DivX?® Video-on-Demand movies. All the tools in DivX Play are also available in DivX Create.
DivX Play lets you:
- Playback all DivX video, including DivX?® media files
- Add DivX playback support to your existing media player
- Rent and purchase high-quality DivX Video-on-Demand titles
The new DivX 7.0 Pro:
H.264 video:
* A new video compression standard that is more technically sophisticated than the standard used by DivX 6. H.264 offers better compression and image quality through high system requirements for content creation and playback.
AAC audio:
* High efficiency audio coding standard natively support multi-channel audio and studio-quality surround sound samples. AAC audio suffers less audible artifacts than MP3 at very low bitrates, but also requires less bitrate to achieve transparency. MP3 is an audio standard for earlier versions of DivX video.
Container format MKV MKV files will be used to compress H.264 video and AAC audio tracks. The format is a feature-Extensible by design and supports multiple audio and subtitle streams within a single file.
Tags: DivX Media Pack 7.0 Pro
