18.Jan.2001
Heise [Newsticker]
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Heise: DivX Successor "OpenDivX" goes Open Source
«The MPEG4 video codec successor "DivX", which derived some stardom from being in
operation for spreading piracy copied movies via the Internet, may hope to be widely supported.
To gain more programmers to participate in the so called "Project Mayo"
the developers around Joe Bezdek, "Director of Product Definition" of Project Mayo decided
to release the current en-/decoder core of the video format as
Open Source.
OpenDivX is only one step on the way to realize greater goals: a versatile video codec -
named "DivX Deux" by the programmers - offering high quality and being free available at the same time
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See title link for the complete article (German).
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