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DivX is video format created by DivX, Inc. DivX became quite popular due to the ability to compress videos to almost 15% of the original size (i.e. 2Gb doen to 700Mb). That means that a full film can be fitted into a CD. What is important, the .divx files retain much of the original quality of the DVD, sometimes the result is even indistinguishable from the source.

Compared to DVD, DivX had some shortcomings. It didn't have interactive video menus, multiple subtitles or audio tracks, chapter points and some other features of DVD. But in June 2005 DivX 6, the latest generation of DivX codecs,was released. DivX 6 can be called a full media container format that supports all above mentioned features of DVD but the files are of much less size.

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