Video Games Is DIVX The Enemy of DVD?

Today buying DVD player software for PC online is a very common thing since the high-tech is high developed which bring a lot of convenience for numerous people around the world. Even though DVD is very hot for those movie fans, there is a new technology appear on the market which will make media with smaller data storage compared with DVD which usually require at least 4-5GB storage. And it is hot in selling and using. Some people equate it with MP3. And others called it the enemy of DVD. It is DIVX. Have you heard of that and how much do you know about it? If you haven’t have time to get familiar with it, then follow me to get acquaintance with it.

When Divx came out on market, it surprise the internet because it shorten DVD data to 1/3 even 1/4 of the original DVD storage. After DVD disc was decoded, Divx was favored by more and more people. Why people love to use that? The reason is not only the small storage capacity it needs, but most importantly it can restore movie with no picture quality losing, just as the uncompressed DVD quality. Secondly, it largely shorten the time to download a movie from online which use this technology. Like the nowadays who create DVD player software windows 8, the Divx will occupy the market someday.

I don’t know whether you know that people normally use the MPEG-2 created by Microsoft to create or compress DVDs, and MPEG-2 is considered the most used compression algorism. After using the Divx to conpress the DVD, your computer can store many more movies as you want, especially for those who love movies and put the time-consuming found movies to their mobile hard drive to store them forever. And it is widely used as code program for lots of DVD ripper which is the prior reason that people call it the “killer” of DVD. Video files using Divx can restore the original DVD picture quality, but also it allows you to select nearly all the audio formats including VBR-MP3 even AC3. Strict speaking, Divx is the best way to copy, storage, and share video files.

Let’s take a look at how it was developed and its principle. The first version of Divx was made by a foreign computer gamers and a hacker. They cracked the Microsoft MPEG-4 video compression algorithm and then rewritten and renamed Divx, and alter, they registered a company to further develop its new technology. Strickly, Divx is not a new technology, by the way, due to some reasons, it is even not legal though it is widely used. Its principle is very simple, it uses MPEG-4 to compress their video portion, and use the MP3 or WMA to compress the audio part. After a perfect combination, it is a AVI file, a Divx movie.

Since MPEG-4’s goal is for the network transmission, the file size is the key point they need to control to be the least. From the above we can see the MPEG-4 really is great technology for the internet. Can you image how it would be when it is published. It has a high autonomy on compression ratio which can be customized to meet the expense of quality to save space. And the most popular product is the ASF file which is using this technology. However, due to its audio compression methos is WMA whose sound quality and penetration rate is far behind MP3, the ASF format is not used widely.

All right, if possible, I recommend you to buy the product with this technology, no matter you decide to buy a DVD&VIDEO converter software, or a DVD ripper.