In recent years, DVD walks into common households with its high-definition image and its breathtaking Dolby AC-3, and became the mainstream video compression format. Though with high quality, we are often worried by its storage. A movie could take about 4.5 G of storage in a DVD, which makes it hard for us to compress it into hard drive. That's when DivX, the so called DVD terminator, occurs.

1. What is DivX?

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DivX (Digital video express) is a video compression format based on MPEG-4 technology developed by DivX Networks, Inc. DivX files can be downloaded over high-speed lines in a relatively short time without sacrificing the quality of the digital video. It is currently the most popular MPEG-4 based codec because of its quality, speed and efficiency.

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Compared to DVD, DivX offers the same image quality at one-tenth (1/10) the size, which means that you can easily fit a full movie on a single CD, while still maintaining the original image quality of the DVD. What's more, the video is usually combined with AC3 or MP3 audio to provide both high quality audio and video. All of these things have contributed to the popularity of the format among those that download movies and videos online.
As a video player, DivX also has its own website that offers free direct download movies to its users. Its movie collection is updated on regular basis, all movies are available in single file, direct download, and no need to sign up or click on any advertising. For more information, you can visit their website here.

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2. Possible reasons that DivX player won't work for OS like Windows 10 or others

DivX is no doubt a good player, but there are also cases that it won't work. DivX users have been complaining about:

Divx Player is not compatible with Windows 7/64 and would not play MKV files.

I was able to fast forward and rewind videos. But still, it does not play.

I could play it but no sound.

When opening an AVI file in player, it will start playing, show the intro, start the first scene, then drop it and display a KEEP UP WITH DIVX message, and a link to Facebook.

Whenever I try to load a movie on net which requires this DivX, it says that "It is unable to load. Please check net connection" while i am connected to net.

Reasons for these problems might be:

Your OS, web-browser or DivX is not the latest version.

Your PC is not connected to the Internet.

Your browser is not compatible with the DivX.

Problem may not be the DivX player but the AC3 filters on my system. You can use the application graphedit to run a video file with AC3 audio and check what AC3 filters are being used. Make sure your filter is the first audio filter being used. If not, remove the prior filter and recheck. Quite a few applications install their own AC3 filters (e.g. decoder) which can mess things around.

VLC and GOM often play well because they use their own internal video AND audio codecs. DivX Player doesn't have the AC3 codec hence the occasional difficulties that may be encountered.

3. Alternative: Leawo Blu-ray Player

If you find DivX is all too troublesome, then there's an alternative for you — Leawo Blue-ray Player.

Being the best media player software combo, Leawo Blu-ray Player is all-inclusive media player software to play back Blu-ray/DVD disc, common videos and up to 1080P HD videos smoothly on Windows 8. As professional Blu-ray/DVD media player software, Leawo Blu-ray Player could play back the newest Blu-ray and DVD discs released in the market on Windows 8.1/8/7/Vista/XP. It could play back common videos, up to 1080P videos and audios in almost all formats with lossless quality. With various advanced audio decoding technologies like Dolby, DTS, AAC, TrueHD, DTS-HD, etc. built in, Leawo Blu-ray Player delivers extraordinary audio effect. For better user experience, it provides detailed navigation and full playback control and allows people to adjust subtitles, audio tracks and videos during playback, customize background picture and switch program skins, support multi-languages and multiple screen displays, etc. People could add videos to the internal playlist for continuous movie enjoying. In addition, it is also a totally free DVD player to offer lifelong free service for playing DVD discs, DVD folders, DVD ISO files and IFO files. This free DVD player could play back all DVD discs from different places and countries with quality lossless. With Leawo Blu-ray Player, HD movie enjoyment on Windows would be greatly improved.

Here's a step by step guide on how to use Leawo Blu-ray Player:

1.Download and lauch Leawo Blu-ray Player.

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2.Add files for playback. If you have a CD inserted in your disk, the program would automatically detect it to play back. If not, you can click the left Open File box on the main interface of the program and the program would navigate you to choose source videos.

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3.Settings. Right click on the program interface, choose player setting on the pop up window. Then you will see a new window where you can set everything you expect from a video player, playback buttons, subtitles, snapshot, skin, you name it.

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4.Hit playing button and enjoy your HD-movie

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5.Other similar players

VLC Players: it can play multi-format media.

HandBrake: it's a free DVD to MPEG-4 converter.

Media Player Classic: it's a simple, lightweight home media.

Freemake Video Converter: it can convert videos and other media files to popular video formats.

Comparing these players, VLC clearly stands out. It's one of the most popular media players with high user rates. Compare to Leawo Blu-ray player, however, VLC is not so attractive. Leawo Blu-ray player wins with its neat-looking operating interface, free of charge, HD imagines, high quality sound and various supported media format.

One of the Leawo Blu-ray player uses commented: "You will definitely keep this software although it still needs enhancement. I am looking forward the 4K Blu-ray."