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title: DivX 5
date: "2002-03-05T12:00:00Z"
categories:
  - links
wp_id: 1414
description: I noted the launch of DivX 5, which looks like a promising update for video compression. It continues to be a major player for high-quality digital video playback and encoding using the MPEG-4 standard.
keywords: [divx 5, video codec, mpeg-4, video compression, digital media, software update]
---

[DivX 5](http://www.divx.com/divx/index.php) is out. Sounds good.