Slime <slm### [at] slimelandcom> wrote:
> AVI in itself isn't a codec.

  Neither is MPEG.

  AVI is a container file for virtually any video and audio format. It is
not a video/audio format in itself and does not define in any way the format
of the data it contains.
  MPEG is a standardized set of video and audio formats.
  DivX is an implementation of a subset of features of the MPEG-4 format.

  From those, only DivX is a codec.
  'codec' is the binary which allows you to encode and decode to/from a
video or audio format like MPEG. (The idea of codecs is that they are
application-independent, which means that any application supporting codecs
can use them even if it doesn't know them directly.)

> I would also recommend mpeg.

  Which one? There are three versions for video (MPEG-1, MPEG-2 and MPEG-4).

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