What is DIVX FORMAT ? dose limewire has movies in this format ?

Question

and if it dose will it play 5.1 SURROUND sound?

pls help.

Answer 1

DivX format means that it's also compatible with the DivX player. DivX usually has compatible files (that includes mpg4 and other common movie file extensions), except .flv, which VLC Player would be good for.

Answer 2

The latest generation, DivX 6, was released on June 15, 2005 and expands the scope of DivX from including just a codec and a player by adding a media container format. This optional new file format introduced with DivX 6 is called "DivX Media Format" ("DMF") (with a .divx extension) that includes support for the following DVD-Video and VOB container like features.

Answer 3

DivX is a video format related to MPEG4 (and with dodgy patent issues). It's been largely superseded by other, newer formats (such as XviD).

People share (usually illegal) video files in many formats. DivX are among those format.

Just as video can be stored in various different formats, so can sound. Some movie files containing DivX sound tracks will include a 5.1 sound track (often in AAC format), others will not.