What is Xvid and should I get it?

[LeLeL]

I have a divx player and I was wondering if these two things were connected in anyway.

[chris]

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[CEN]

Yes. DivX is a commercial codec, whereas XviD is a reverse engineered DivX-compliant codec. Just about anything that can play DivX encoded material can also play XviD encoded material.

I think that probably answers the question `Should I get it?`. Get it if you need it. Don't get it if you don't need it.

EDIT: I intentionally refrained from saying this earlier, since people would accuse me of having a personal vendetta against it, but Mike gave me the confidence to also say that you should avoid installing the K-Lite Codec pack.

Installing ffdshow tryouts would be a better idea: http://www.google.com/url?q=http://ffdshow-tryout.sourceforge.net/download.php&ei=PnJmSpHvCZmTtgfGi5n3Dw&sa=X&oi=sma p&resnum=1&ct=result&cd=1&usg=AFQjCNEdNcoquv2Di-D1WXL6tTgMgeOUkA

[xtreme]

Xvid (like DivX) is a codec used to compress and playback video files. Many videos (notably pirated movies) are encoded using Xvid codec. Your DivX player should play Xvid fine, however. But you can always play them on your pc if you have the codec installed. Get the k-lite codec pack and play (almost) anything.

[Raj]

DIvx and Xvid are two flavors of AVI Format., if u need to download Both Download the K-lite Codec Pack as it includes all Codecs you may require to play or convert any file