XviD
-XviD is a forked development of the
+XviD is an Open Source MPEG-4 ASP
+compliant Video codec, which features two pass encoding and full MPEG-4 ASP
+support with makes it a lot more efficient than the well-knowed DivX codec.
+It yields very good video quality and features CPU optimizations for most
+modern processors, which makes it really fast too.
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+It began as a forked development of the
OpenDivX codec. It happened when ProjectMayo changed OpenDivX to closed source
DivX4 (now DivX5), and the non-ProjectMayo people working on OpenDivX got angry,
then started XviD. So both projects have the same origin.
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-ADVANTAGES
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- open source
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- its API is compatible with DivX4 so adding support for it is easy
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- 2-pass encoding support
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- nice encoding quality, higher speed than DivX4 (you can optimize it for
- your box while compiling)
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-DISADVANTAGES
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- currently it does not properly decode all
- DivX/DivX4 files (no problem as
- libavcodec
- can play them)
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- under development
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