InterVideo Integrates DivX into WinDVD Platinum DVD Player
Reprinted from a DivXNetworks/InterVideo press release:
DivXNetworks, Inc., the company that created the patent-pending DivX video compression technology, and InterVideo, Inc. today announced a comprehensive software licensing and marketing partnership. Under the agreement, InterVideo has licensed DivX and DivX Pro video compression technology for the company’s leading line of digital video and audio multimedia software products.
WinDVD Platinum, the most recent version of the world’s best-selling DVD player, is the first InterVideo product to feature DivX technology. Additionally, InterVideo plans to integrate DivX and DivX Pro encoding technology into future versions of other leading products. The two companies will co-market the DivX-powered InterVideo products through their respective web properties, www.intervideo.com and www.divx.com. DivX.com offers a valuable marketing channel of international tech-savvy digital video consumers, with 10 million monthly visitors
WinDVD Platinum includes a number of powerful new features such as SRS Headphones, Movieffecter filter for improved video quality and Dolby Virtual Speaker Technology for surround sound on only 2 speakers. WinDVD Platinum is now officially integrated with the DivX decoder, enabling users to play back full-screen, high-quality DivX video files.
DivX video compression technology is a hugely popular video encoder / decoder that offers DVD-quality video at sizes 7-10 times smaller than MPEG-2 and ranks among the world’s most popular video technologies, with over 70 million downloads and an average of over 2 million downloads per month. The advanced DivX Pro includes a set of advanced encoding techniques and built-in video processing tools specifically designed to meet the wide-ranging demands of digital video professionals
“InterVideo is one of the leaders in designing and marketing innovative and hugely popular multimedia consumer software products, and the addition of DivX technology is a perfect fit for their line of digital video products,” said Jordan Greenhall, co-founder and CEO of DivXNetworks, Inc. “We’re dedicated to partnering with great companies like InterVideo to integrate DivX video technology into a wide range of software applications that empower consumers and provide high-quality, complete convergence and home entertainment solutions.”
“DivX is one of the coolest things happening right now in video, especially on the web,” said Steve Ro, founder and CEO of InterVideo. “Adding DivX to WinDVD makes WinDVD Platinum the absolute best way to watch any DivX movie. We also plan to add DivX technology to our other video products to for new ways to handle DivX video.”
InterVideo joins a growing number of innovative companies as official DivX Licensed Software partners. The newly released WinDVD Platinum with DivX compatibility is now available at both www.divx.com and www.intervideo.com.