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But the streaming video nirvana that we now take for granted seemed like a distant dream back in when a brash San Diego start-up company created one of the first Internet-based video-on-demand platforms. It all started with a codec. Jerome started a company with a few other budding technology entrepreneurs, and in August DivX 4.
The Internet video community responded with great enthusiasm, and DivX soon became the standard for full-length, high-quality video transferred over peer-to-peer networks.
DivXNetworks, the company behind DivX, had been working in parallel to create an Internet-based video-on-demand system that built upon the quality and performance of the DivX codec. The goal was to create an end-to-end system for the secure sale and rental of feature films over the Internet. Due to the inferior quality of incumbent technologies, industry concerns about the effectiveness of existing digital rights management solutions, and the lack of universal broadband access, Hollywood studios and content creators had been slow to embrace an Internet based video-on-demand strategy.
Eric and DivX co-founders consulted with the MPAA and Hollywood studios before beginning development to better understand the needs and concerns of the film industry and created a digital rights management system tailored to address those needs. A small start-up where each employee wore many hats, the entire company participated in the development and testing of the OVS.
Employees volunteered to stay after hours conducting QA, testing playback quality and logging bugs. Meanwhile, the small DivX sales team met with every film studio and content distributor they could find. The big studios were intrigued by the technology but still hesitant to dip their toes in the waters of online distribution, in part out of fear of cannibalizing the then booming DVD business that was bringing in record revenues.
Smaller production companies and distributors proved more open to the idea, and several signed up as launch partners. Several more companies followed suit, and over the next few years thousands of independent titles were sold and rented by DivX OVS partners. Hundreds of millions of devices spanning virtually every major CE manufacturer were released supporting DivX OVS playback over the following decade and beyond.
Today, there are over 1. The DivX OVS was one of the first commercially available Internet-based video-on-demand platforms, enabling viewers to experience high-quality feature films in an entirely new way.
Far ahead of its time, the DivX OVS launched a time where broadband Internet access was not yet ubiquitous, in a business environment where Hollywood studios were not yet ready to embrace digital distribution for a variety of reasons.
In , a full six years after the launch of the DivX OVS, Netflix introduced streaming to their platform, eventually proving successful in breaking the loggerhead that kept Hollywood from embracing digital distribution.
Many of the features that we take for granted in our everyday video consumption were pioneered by the DivX OVS, from DVD-quality picture over IP networks to flexible, transparent DRM and the ability to watch a purchased or rented title on multiple devices. Fresh out of school, Jerome was looking to create an online portfolio that would showcase the video and animation work he was doing for various clients.
The state of the Internet in , needless to say, was quite different than it is today. Streaming video, to the extent that it existed, meant grainy, postage-stamp size blips in the corner of the screen. But things were starting to change. A group of leading technology companies had collaborated to create a new video compression standard called MPEG-4 that promised to deliver high-visual quality at file sizes small enough to distribute online. He played around with an early MPEG-4 codec while putting together his video portfolio but was dissatisfied with some of the settings and format options.
After a few hours of tinkering, he created a version that produced the kind of quality and compression performance he was after. Not thinking too much about it, he shared his creation with a few fellow video technology buffs online and went about his business.
In true viral Internet fashion, millions of people were using the codec to encode and share DVD-quality videos over newly created peer-to-peer networks, and a true cultural phenomenon was born.
An early executive at streaming music pioneer MP3. After much searching through the untamed IRC channels that made up the online digital video community at the time, Jordan attempted to track down Jerome. Despite some early reservations, Jerome soon agreed to give it a shot. DivX 6. File Size: 7. New: Major improvements in quality and compression! DivX 6 codec has equivalent compression to DivX Pro 5.
New encoding mode breakdown enables a flexible selection of performance vs. Rate-distortion optimized H. Multiple consecutive bidirectional coding is allowed in High Definition profile enabling better compression. VBV change for Portable profile, enabling higher quality Portable video. New source aspect-based resize.
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