Most people are familiar with the AVI videos and the term DivX is widely popularized, but when they come across a video file with a .MKV extension, there seem to be a lot of confusion. The purpose of this article is to clear these confusions and problems and give you clear instructions how to play [...]

FFDSHOW is DirectShow and VFW codec for decoding/encoding many video and audio formats, including DivX and XviD movies using libavcodec, xvid and other opensourced libraries with a rich set of postprocessing filters. FFDSHOW supports virtually every audio and video format used in movies or other video content on the internet, and decodes them with excellent [...]

VLC media player (initially VideoLAN Client) is a highly portable multimedia player for various audio and video formats (MPEG, DivX, Ogg, and many more) as well as DVDs, VCDs, and various streaming protocols. However in recent years it has also become a extremely powerful server to stream live and on demand video in several formats [...]