has since continued to develop the DivX codec, releasing DivX 5.0 in March 2002. Other developers who had participated in OpenDivX took encore2 and started a new project- Xvid-that started with the same encoding core. ĭivX took the encore2 code and developed it into DivX 4.0, initially released in July 2001. That summer, Rota left the French Riviera and moved to San Diego "with nothing but a pack of cigarettes" where he and Greenhall founded what would eventually become DivX, Inc. The explanation from DivX at the time was that "the community really wants a Winamp, not a Linux." It was at this point that the project forked. This code was included in the OpenDivX public source repository for a brief time, but then was abruptly removed.
In early 2001, DivX employee "Sparky" wrote a new and improved version of the codec's encoding algorithm known as "encore2". The company's internal developers and some external developers worked jointly on OpenDivX for the next several months, but the project eventually stagnated. OpenDivX was hosted as an open-source project on the Project Mayo web site hosted at (the name comes from " mayonnaise", because, according to Rota, DivX and mayonnaise are both "French and very hard to make." ). This effort resulted first in the release of the "OpenDivX" codec and source code on 15 January 2001. in 2005) to develop an MPEG-4 codec, from scratch, that would still be backward-compatible with the Microsoft MPEG-4 Version 3 format. In early 2000, Jordan Greenhall recruited Rota to form a company (originally called DivXNetworks, Inc., renamed to DivX, Inc. Instead of re-encoding his portfolio, Rota and German hacker Max Morice decided to reverse engineer the codec, which "took about a week". Rota hacked the Microsoft codec because newer versions of the Windows Media Player would not play his video portfolio and résumé that were encoded with it. It was altered to allow other containers such as Audio Video Interleave (AVI).
The Microsoft codec originally required that the compressed output be put in an ASF file. The video codec, which was actually not MPEG-4 compliant, was extracted around 1998 by French hacker Jerome Rota (also known as Gej) at Montpellier. ĭivX -) (not DivX) 3.11 Alpha and later 3.xx versions refers to a hacked version of the Microsoft MPEG-4 Version 3 video codec (not to be confused with MPEG-4 Part 3) from Windows Media Tools 4 codecs. The company dropped the smiley and released DivX 4.0, which was actually the first DivX version to trademark the term DivX. Although not created by them, the DivX company adopted the name of the popular DivX -) codec. The winking emoticon in the early " DivX -)" codec name was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the DIVX system. The "DivX" brand is distinct from " DIVX", which is an obsolete video rental system.
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