Without it, you miss out on the freedom to play your favorite movies where you want
DivX Plus Converter 8.0 - Released 2010-03-16. New: Creating DivX Plus (.mkv) files is now a free feature of DivX Plus Converter that will continue to work even after the trial period has expired. DivX Plus Converter has received a new UI to enable easier access to more advanced features and settings. Minimum System Requirements for DivX Plus for Mac 9.x: Mac OS X 10.6+ Intel CPU, 1 GHz or faster; 512 MB RAM; Minimum System Requirements for DivX for Mac 8.x: Mac OS X 10.5.0+ Intel CPU, 1 GHz or faster; 512 MB RAM; Minimum System Requirements for DivX for Mac 7.x: Mac OS X 10.4.0+ Intel CPU, 1GHz or faster; 512MB RAM; Recommended System.
Not long ago, an article came out on Lifehacker called What’s the Difference Between All These Video Formats, and Which One Should I Use?
The article was a largely-useful breakdown of what the layman might need to know (and not know) about portable video formats. It talked about why video files need to be compressed and decompressed, gave a short history of codecs and containers, and pointed the reader toward a likely path to successful ripping and sharing of their favorite movies and TV shows.
But like most simplifications of complex things, it got some parts…well, wrong. And of course we noticed the errors that had to do with DivX.
Allow us to do a little DivX myth-busting!
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