Orchid XP v8 wrote:
> - DivX 3 looks even worse than MPEG1. And not by a small margin.

Current DivX version is 6.8

Wikipedia on Version 3:
DivX ;-) 3.11 Alpha and later 3.xx versions refers to a hacked version of the
Microsoft MPEG-4 Version 3 (MPEG-4v3, Microsoft internal numbering scheme,
unrelated to MPEG-4 parts) video codec (which was actually not MPEG-4

Gej) in Montpellier. The Microsoft codec, which originally required that the
compressed output be put in an ASF file, was altered to allow other containers
such as Audio Video Interleave (AVI). Rota hacked the Microsoft codec because
newer versions of the Windows Media Player wouldn't play his video portfolio

Rota and German hacker Max Morice decided to reverse engineer the codec, which
"took about a week".[5]

So DivX3 is not what you should use if you want a relaistic picture of current
codecs

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