XviD

See also: Video Formats | MPEG-4 | Moving Picture Experts Group

Home Page: http://www.xvid.org

XviD is an ISO MPEG-4 compliant video codec. Not a product, it’s an open-source project developed and maintained by people from all over the world.

Ogg Theora is another, seperate, open-source video codec.

XviD came out as best codec (http://www.doom9.org/index.html?/codecs-203-1.htm) in Doom9.net’s codec comparision as of january 2004.

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