In article <3CC9FCEA.DF1DB752@swipnet.se> , Tom Stone <tom### [at] swipnetse>
wrote:

> Have anyone found a way to make DivX animations viewable on Macs?
>
> I've tried some of the codecs from www.divx.com in the past

From their site at <http://www.divx.com/support/faq.php> they explain:

>>>


video compression technology developed by DivXNetworks, Inc.. It allows you to
create and watch videos with very high visual quality and relatively low file

high-quality video files over the Internet.
<<<

So, as they have filed patents nobody can right now make any other (legal)
codec and you are forced to use what they offer or not use DivX.  As their
patent claim makes obvious it is simply a proprietary video encoding
technology developed by a company called DivXNetworks, Inc :-(

I would suggest to contact the authors of the DivX movies you want to watch
and ask them to supply their video in a free, open and standard format such a
MPEG-1.

BTW, be careful not the get confused about their wording "MPEG-4 video
compression technology".   This means by no means "MPEG-4 standard" and DivX
(which is much newer btw) is not part of the MPEG-4 standard at all nor is it
compatible with it!!!

    Thorsten

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