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April 10, 2007

High-Quality Streaming Dance Videos in DivX Format

I've been experimenting with different approaches to delivering high-quality dance videos over the Internet.

This morning I took a look at the DivX video format and the Stage6 video sharing site devoted to DivX-formatted videos.

The DivX video format lets you create high-quality and wide-screen compressed video files that can be streamed over the Internet. You can see examples of dance videos in this format on Stage6.

But to watch these videos, you'll need to download the DivX video player software, which appears to be available only for Windows PCs.

If you click the link right below to continue reading this story, you can watch a DivX dance video that I've embedded in this post. I strongly encourage you to install the software so you can see how good the video quality is.

Here is a DivX-formatted dance video

Shakira "Hips Don't Lie"


I'm also going to experiment with the software programs for saving videos in DivX format and then upload videos to Stage6. I'll write more about this video format when I do this.

Posted by Doug Fox on April 10, 2007 2:01 PM

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Michelle said:

DivX is available for the OSX platform, free from the DivX's website. In recent years it has come up against a number of competitors in the 'open source' codec market including some heavy competition from the ironically named Xvid (DivX backwards).

More recently Apples own H.264 compression has provided high quality video compression. Ironically they are all based around the Mpeg 4 standard. Basically they are all the same (pretty much) in terms of quality vs file size but the user needs a copy of each codec to view the videos, not good for the user.

Added: April 10, 2007 2:28 PM | Permalink

Doug Fox said:

Michelle,

Thanks for info.

Yes, it is a pain to have to download different software programs for each codec. But it is good to see growth in online high-quality videos.

Added: April 10, 2007 2:41 PM | Permalink

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