• QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    Divx was a video codec and much better than the others at that time. It was super confusing when Circuit City announced their DIVX program.

    • A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world
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      3 months ago

      Yeah DivX was awesome. Really led the way in allowing videos to be shared online. I wouldn’t have seen half the anime I did if it wasn’t for it.

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          3 months ago

          Mine was a cam recording of Scary Movie 2. Horrible, horrible, horrible. Not the fault of the codec. I avoided cams after that and waited for the screeners.

          But oh boy did I love my divx South Park episodes.

          I probably haven’t watched a movie in 5 years.

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          3 months ago

          .avi is a container format. It can contain a divx video stream or almost any other encoding of video as well as audio streams and other media. It isn’t exclusive to divx.