[olug] OT?-- MPEG-4 files

[Ben Dinger]

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 08:20:03PM -0500, OBrien,       Timothy  (Omaha Linux Users Group - OLUG) wrote:
> 
> An implementation of MPEG-4, correct? If you search via Google that is the
> codec you receive all the hits on.
> 

Divx is a codec, which is just - basically for lack of a better description - a compression method for the video file.  It's the way that the actual filetype is encoded.  It uses the decoder, the divx codec, to "decompress" the file.  It's kind of like thinking of a live decompression of a gzip archive without actually decompressing it - if that makes any sense. 

Again, my understanding isn't complete on the subject, but that is the basics afaik.  If I'm wrong, someone please point it out ;). 

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