[vox-tech] wincast tv: video4linux and copying movies

[Michael J Wenk]

On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 11:49:20AM -0700, Mark K. Kim wrote:

> DivX's compression is definitely better than MPEG2.  And somehow MPEG4 and
> DivX is related but I'm not exactly sure how.  They seem to either share
> compression techniques or have the ability to embed one format in the
> other, or it's just a different name for the same thing -- I'm not sure.
> Anyway, MPEG4 and DivX are very comparable and a video made in one format
> seems to be playable in a player that understands the other format.

as I recall, DivX is an implementation of MPEG-4. 

Mike