> video: the H.264 codec (or MPEG-4 Part 10), once upon a time know in the scene as DIVX. That is incorrect and bothered me enough that I scoured the web tryin

> video: the H.264 codec (or MPEG-4 Part 10), once upon a time know in the scene as DIVX. That is incorrect and bothered me enough that I scoured the web trying to find old scene release standards. Fascinatingly, there's a whole Wikipedia article on those[1] and it's still possible to find the original .nfos in strange corners of the internet[2]. But long story short, a DivX release was standardized to DivX 3.11, which was actually a reverse-engineered Microsoft codec and not actually MPEG-4 compatible[3]. But later DivX versions implemented MPEG-4 Part 2[4] -- that is still a completely different thing than MPEG-4 Part 10[5] though, which describes H.264 (but calls it AVC). [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_(warez) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_(warez) [2]: http://lunamoth.biz/pe.kr/cgi-bin/gm/archives/tdx2k2.nfo http://lunamoth.biz/pe.kr/cgi-bin/gm/archives/tdx2k2.nfo [3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DivX [4]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_2 [5]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Video_Coding