XviD is a video codec just like DivX. Most new movies and videos are being encoded with XviD.

The XviD Codec is needed to play movies encoded by XviD. XviD is better than DivX.

Features: I, P Frame encoding, PMVFast and EPZS with diamond and square pattern motion estimation, inter4v mode, fullpixell and halfpixel, precision, both MPEG4 and H263 quantizations, custom quant matrices, Adaptive quantization / Luminance masking.

Changes :

• Fresh CVS checkout.
• sysKin has made refdivx lumimasking P4-compatible the same applies to VHQ
• some speedups by sysKin, he replaced ABS-macros for better compiler optimizations
• inspired by Cruncher: removed fdct_sse2, he suggested it produces worse quality
• still no negative thresholds for bframes
• statsreader updated to 2.0a (merging stats support)