Stvastva submitted an interview with DivX Networks co-founder Jordan Greenhall. DivX Networks is a company that tries to exploit the DivX technology commercially. DivX is another technology that comes from the underground and promises to become a leading format.
The interview tells more about the DivX technology and it's future:
Q: Parse for our readers the relationship between the original DivX technology, your company and the open-source DivX project. |
A: How smart are your readers?
Q: (Laughs) I think they're pretty smart.
A: The original code is old now. I guess it's been a year and a half. The last gasp of the original code was 3.11 Alpha. 3.11 Alpha was developed primarily by Gej and a couple of people in the IRC community. It was effectively the .avi file format, the MP3 audio codec, and the Microsoft MPEG-4 V.3 video codec.
As a quick aside, although Microsoft called it MPEG-4 V.3, it's not MPEG-4. It's very close to MPEG-4, but it's very specifically and, one might say, strategically not compatible with MPEG-4.
Seems DivX is something nobody can't get around anymore.
Read the entire interview here.
Source: TheNetEconomy
