"A new video technology is floating through the computer underground that holds the promise of doing for movies what MP3 has done for digital music." - CNet

DivX is not to be confused with the now-dead DVD rental format. Instead, it's a hacked together codec which merges MPEG-4 and MP3 into a high quality / high compression video format.

Mac DivX

MPlayerOSX - This application is a standalone media player -- which plays DivX very well under Mac OS X. It also supports Windows Audio encoded DivX's. Recommended

Divx.com - Divx formats are being consolidated under one format.

3ivx.com - 3ivx offers DivX Doctor II which converts DivX files into a playable format.

Videolan.org - VideoLan provides a standalone MPEG2 player which also bring support for DivX files.

Media Coverage

DivX sotfware delivers movable media - DivXNetworks unveiled a new version of its compression technology that promises to let Internet users shrink video files on the PC to play back on a range of consumer electronics devices.

CNet: Hacked video technology provides look at MP3-like films - A new video technology is floating through the computer underground that holds the promise of doing for movies what MP3 has done for digital music.

ZDNet: Inside the online movie underground

How to Use It

The DivX scene on the Mac has matured... with two strong DivX players now available -- MPlayer OS X and VideoLan's VLC application. There should be little difficulties in using these applications to play your divx's.

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