Re: About Divx and Xvid

"Clover" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Dear all,
>
> I would like to ask what's the difference between Divx and Xvid. Also,
> as I understood, Xvid and Divx are MPEG-4 compliant codecs. However, I
> am confused with the extension used by them. Usually normall file
> coded with MPEG-4 technology would use .mp4 as an extension. Why these
> two codecs are not the same but used divx, avi as extension?
> Thanks a lot.
>
> Regards,
> Clover

The reason they have an avi extension is that they are compressed versions
of .avi format files (avi meanining audio/video interleaved). The format is
avi, the compression is MPEG4, the specific manipulation is Divx4 or 5, or
Xvid, or 3ivx, or WMV9, depending on whose codec you compress the avi with.

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