Streaming of DivX AVI Movies

In recent years the MPEG-4 ISO compression standard has gained much attention. With its high compression ratio it promises to make broadbandstreaming more feasible. However, currently there are still no fully ISO standard compliant MPEG-4 systems widely available. Some partial implementations, such as the MPEG-4 style codec “DivX;-)” are popular for encoding video content into AVI (Audio Video Interleave) files. The AVI file format was originally not intended for streaming. In this report we document our efforts to enable streaming of DivX AVI files across broadband IP based networks.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: SAC
• Authors: Roger Zimmermann
• Keywords: Applied Computing, MPEG-4, MPEG-4 ISO Compression, SAC 2003, Standard Compliant Mpeg-4