DivX, Inc. (formerly DivXNetworks, Inc.), based in San Diego, California, is the corporation behind the popular MPEG-4 codec, DivX. The company's codec has been downloaded over 240 million times since January 2003. DivX, Inc.'s offerings have expanded beyond the codec to include software for viewing and authoring DivX-encoded video. DivX, Inc. also licenses its technologies to manufacturers of consumer electronics devices and components used in t...
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DivX, Inc. (formerly DivXNetworks, Inc.), based in San Diego, California, is the corporation behind the popular MPEG-4 codec, DivX. The company's codec has been downloaded over 240 million times since January 2003. DivX, Inc.'s offerings have expanded beyond the codec to include software for viewing and authoring DivX-encoded video. DivX, Inc. also licenses its technologies to manufacturers of consumer electronics devices and components used in these devices and certifies that these products are able to properly handle DivX-encoded video. DivX, Inc. became publicly traded on the NASDAQ stock exchange after an initial public offering in September 2006.
The origin of DivX, Inc. begins with video engineer Jerome Rota (aka Gej), who made the original "DivX ;-)" codec available on his personal website after he had reverse-engineered the Microsoft MPEG-4 V3 codec. Gej was looking for a way to compress his portfolio so he could transmit it using the Audio Video Interleave file format (AVI)....
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