DivX Player and Codec

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This download, the official DivX video software bundle, contains our latest free codec offering built to play every version of DivX content ever created. The DivX codec plugs into existing video software to create high-quality DivX videos at a fraction of the original size, and includes advanced features like enhanced video quality, a feedback window, more effective compression capabilities, and full support for decoding MPEG-4 Advanced Simple Profile video. By enabling playback of all DivX content, the DivX codec gives you instant access to millions of DivX videos available on the Internet today. The DivX codec lets you create your own movies in the DivX video format or reduce the file size of current video files to store them on a hard drive or standard CD-R. And, with DivX Certified player devices, you can watch the movies you create with the DivX codec anywhere from your TV to your personal video player. You can even create videos that finally take advantage of the superb visual clarity of your HDTV. This bundle includes the DivX Player, which plays all DivX video content including DivX Video-on-Demand (VOD) titles, supports the MPEG-4 format and offers a skinnable interface system. DivX is the most popular video codec in the world. ;D

The divX Codec will also let you watch divx movies, music videos etc on windows media player ;D please choose the right one for your version of windows ;D also lots of free stuff for you on this page including....

DVD Rip N' Burn License: Freeware

Rip and burn DVD's - Copy DVD to AVI, DIVX, MPEG, VCD, SVCD, and more. Powerful and FREE DVD Ripper and Burner with multi-language support is an affordable way to backup your dvd movie library. The best and affordable way to backup your dvd's to your hard drive or cd's. you can rip your library to avi compressed pick divx or another codec to encode to. you can rip to vcd for burning a vcd to play in your home dvd player. you can also rip to svcd for burning to play in your home dvd player. You can Copy DVD movie into several video types, including VCD(MPEG-1 format), SVCD (MPEG-2 format), DivX AVI and other AVI (compressed by the selected codec, DivX codec perfered). Features: Copy DVD to VCD - Encoding to MPEG1 support Copy DVD to SVCD - MPEG2 encoding & decoding support Copy DVD to AVI - DivX and other standard AVI compression codec support Convert DVD movies to DIVX format Backup DVD copy Powerful wizard will help you to complete conversion setting in several steps DVD Decrypt and Backup DVD To Harddisk Multi-Langiage Support Best of all it's FREE ;D ;D ;D

www.dirfile.com/freeware/divx-converter.htm

Mick

edit, a tip if you are thinking of buying a new dvd player, recorder make sure it can play MPEG4, DivX Movies some don't ;D

[Mickuk]

Copy your DVD into DivX5 format - Guide for 16:9 anamorphic movies
This guide is no longer maintained. It is stored mainly for future historians to investigate. For more up-to-date information, please see our other guides.

This guide is an alternative to our previous DVD to VideoCD guide. Only real difference between these two guides is the format that we are using in here. So, now I suggest you to decide whther you want to use DivX5 or VideoCD format for your backup copying:




DivX5 offers extremely good video quality when one average-length movie is stored in 2 CDs, but on the other hand, DivX movies can't be used with stand-alone DVD players.

VideoCD quality can be compared to VHS quality -- and I don't mean your personal TV recordings, but to those brand-new VHS cassettes that you buy from video stores. DivX quality is significantly better anyway, but on the other hand, VideoCD discs can be played back with almost any regular stand-alone DVD player.

So, if you wish to create VCD, read this guide instead, but if you prefer DivX, continue reading this one.

Aspect ratio

Ok, now you need to check the back of your DVD movie in order to see what aspect ratio the movie has, because we have three different guides for three different aspect ratios. So, once you've found your aspect ratio, make your selection:

4:3 aspect ratio - please go to this guide
16:9 aspect ratio - please continue reading this guide

www.afterdawn.com/guides/archive/dvd2divx_anamorphic.cfm

mick