Free divx software for linux

DivX is a codec for Linux, is free and includes DivX Pro features.
Its been a little while (ok.. 3 years ;)) since we last released a version of the DivX codec for Linux.
Following our 6.1 major release for Windows back in December weve been busy fixing all the issues that have been reported to us in order to make 6.1.1 very stable.
Now that work on 6.1.1 is complete, we have decided not only to release the Windows version, but a Linux version too.
Enhancements:
- A faster decoder
- Better support for generic MPEG-4 playback
- Faster, higher quality post-processing
- Improved bi-directional coding (including multiple adaptive B-frames)
- "Fastest" and "High Performance" encoding modes
- Rate-distortion optimized encoding modes ("Better quality", "Extreme quality", "Insane quality")
- Much improved compression for equivelent quality
- Optimizations for newer processors
- Updated VBV for improved support for DivX Certified devices
- Two psychovisual enhancement modes
- Quality optimized H.263 quantization method
- Support for 4MV motion compensation
- New resize methods
- New encoding modes
- .. and lots more!

File2Divx3Pass is a Perl-GTK frontend to mencoder for encoding media file to MPEG4.

It can encode any media file supported by mencoder to DiVX, in 1-, 2- or 3-pass encoding.

You can create new, save and load projects and you can batch encode your projects. It also has an automatic video bitrate and bits per pixel calculator.

File2DiVX3Pass2 is a Gtk2 version, with the same functionality as the Gtk version. I have added some new features (see changelog). Formats tested by me that work: MPEG-1, MPEG-2, DiVX, WMV, ASF, RM, MOV, DAT, CUE/BIN and OGM.

DivFix program was created to be able to watch partially downloaded DivX (AVI) movies. It can rebuild or strip the index part of the movie, which is at the end of the file.
There are also a basic error detection, which can detect serious errors in the audio/video stream.
Enhancements:
- Auto-clear option to clear the listbox after finishing
- Fixed I/O error 103 when stripping the index
- Fixed bugs in the "Cut out bad parts" option
- Displaying the time of the errors
- The "Keep original file" is turned on by default for safety purpose
- Now if the destination dir is empty, DivFix puts the new video, where the original was
- Displaying the name and the number of errors after finishing with a file
- Linux version is now available for those who wanted it
- Change in my postal address (for those who want send me postcards...)

Drip is a DVD to DIVX conversion application. Its made up out two applications: a DVD reader and a DIVX encoder. The reader is a GUI for the GNOME environment, the DIVX encoder a text mode tool.
You wont have to learn to use the textmode tool, because the GUI also is a frontend for it. Drip is not yet usable for NTSC (Region1) DVDs because those are prepared differently as PAL DVDs.
Main features:
- Utilisation of avifile encoding, so much avifile codecs support, o.a. MSMPEG4, OpenDIVX and Xvid encoding support
- MP3 audio encoding, also dual channel.
- DVD reading, based on libraries libdvdread and libdvdcss
- Subpictures overlaying (not as seperate data)
- Automatic clipping, blurring and scaling of video stream
- Deinterlacing of PAL video (Not for interlaced NTSC material, but helps a little)
- DVDdb support and DVD header pasring for automatic DIVX naming
- Terminal only encoding (dripencoder)
- Plugin filters for audio and video.
- Many other options and logic for ONE RUN divx creation
Requierments:
- A recent version (1.2 or later) of the GNOME environment.
- nasm and automake-1.5 or later to compile.
- A Unix OS with GNU development and DVD support (UDF or ISO9660), like linux 2.4
- libdvdcss-1.2.2 for handling DVD data.
- libdvdread-0.9.3 for parsing DVD disk info.
- For mpeg2 and a52 decoding, install both libmpeg2 0.2.1 and liba52
- xvid 0.9.2
- avifile 0.7.34 or later for divx;-) encoding.
- Image Magick for the ImageMagick filter.
- libXML2.
- gcc 3.2.x to compile.
- libmpeg2 0.3.1
Version restrictions:
- NTSC deinterlacing.
- Complete PCM handling. PCM audio tends to go out of sync with current code. Need more testing material..
- Chapter handling. Drip offers Program Chain and angle selection, but not seperate chapters.

im2avi is a small program for making AVIs from sequences of images. im2avi project makes use of avifile for encoding video streams, so im2avi has access to all the codecs that avifile supports, including e.g. DivX or Cinepak.

It uses the ImageMagick++ library to load the images, so it supports a wide range of formats. im2avi was developed on linux, but should run on most OSen that support avifile, ImageMagick and fltk.

NOTE: All the linux machines that I work with are still running Debian Stable (aka Woody aka Linux 1958) and im2avi happily works on these machines. Some users have reported getting it to run on newer machines, some users have reported not being able to. At some stage, Ill spend some time on a newer Linux distribution and update everything to run out of the box on such machines. Until then, you are primarily on your own.

im2avi is a small program for making AVIs from sequences of images. It makes use of avifile for encoding video streams, so im2avi has access to all the codecs that avifile supports, including e.g. DivX or Cinepak. It uses the ImageMagick++ library to load the images, so it supports a wide range of formats. im2avi was developed on linux, but should run on most OSen that support avifile, ImageMagick and fltk.

My primary use for im2avi is to make "screen movies" for presentations and such-like. To capture the actual frames, I use xvidcap. I write the frames to the default xwd-format (which im2avi can easily read) and then make msmpeg4 AVIs.