New DivX Web Player Hits 1 Million Downloads in One Week; First DivX Software to Embed High-Definition, Full-Screen Video into Web Pages.SAN DIEGO San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. -- DivX, Inc., today announced that the DivX Web Player 1.0, the first fully featured in-browser player for DivX video, has been downloaded over a million times in the first week of its release. The DivX Web Player lets anyone embed high definition DivX videos in their web pages or blogs, without using special streaming servers or installing server-side software. To see the DivX Web Player in action, visit http://www.divx.com/movies/. When using the DivX Web Player 1.0, high definition video can play live inside the browser in a special windowed Win´dowed a. 1. Having windows or openings. playback mode, or can be displayed full-screen. The new player software is platform agnostic and is compatible with both Windows and Mac operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. , and every major web browser The program that serves as your front end to the Web on the Internet. In order to view a site, you type its address (URL) into the browser's Location field; for example, www.computerlanguage.com, and the home page of that site is downloaded to you. application. It also allows for progressive download, so large video files can begin to playback even while they are in the process of downloading. Unlike streaming solutions, however, the DivX Web Player allows for the easy saving of the favorite video files by the user while also eliminating the need for a special streaming server. The DivX Web Player is one of many recent software releases from DivX, including updated versions of the DivX codec (1) (enCOder/DECoder) A hardware circuit that performs analog-to-digital conversion (ADC) and digital-to-analog (DAC) conversion. When analog signals are entered into a computer, cellphone or other device via a microphone or video source such as VHS tape or analog TV, , the DivX Converter and DivX for Mac. In addition to advanced interactive features, the DivX technology is optimized for use with dual core and hyperthreaded CPUs in today's latest computers. The DivX Converter 6.1 offers consumers the simplest DivX video encoding See encode. application available, while also integrating a large number of new features for more advanced users. And finally, DivX 6 for Mac brings all the latest innovations of DivX to the Mac platform. "The DivX Web Player extends the ability of DivX to offer a transformative digital media experience for consumers and content creators. It empowers web video at a higher visual quality and wider interoperability than any other video technology on the market," said Darrius Thompson, co-founder and general manager for Consumer Software Products and Services at DivX, Inc. "Most importantly Adv. 1. most importantly - above and beyond all other consideration; "above all, you must be independent" above all, most especially , users of the DivX Web Player will be able to watch and create video files that are interoperable with millions of DivX Certified DVD players and other devices." To download the free DivX Web Player, or any of the other DivX software offerings, please visit www.divx.com/divx/. About DivX, Inc. DivX, Inc. is a digital entertainment company positioned at the center of multimedia convergence. The company's core offering is the DivX(R) video codec (1) A hardware circuit that converts analog video (NTSC, PAL, SECAM) into digital code and vice versa. The term may refer to only the A/D and D/A conversion, or it may include the compression technique for further reducing the signal (definition #2 below). See codec. , among the world's most popular video compression Encoding digital video to take up less storage space and transmission bandwidth. See video codec and data compression. video compression - Compression of sequences of images. technologies with over 200 million users worldwide. The patent-pending DivX video technology offers DVD-quality at 10 times greater compression than MPEG-2 files, enabling full length films to easily fit on a CD or be delivered over broadband connections. DivX video technology powers a range of applications that span the convergence value chain, from a secure IP-based video-on-demand solution to next-generation consumer electronics products and video software applications. DivX, Inc. is headquartered in San Diego, Calif. |
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