CyberLink Licenses DivX Pro Technology

Your next version of Cyberlinks software could be DivX compatible, allowing you to play DivX encoded movies.

Under the agreement, CyberLink has licensed DivX Pro video technology to include in all retail and online versions of their multimedia software products, including PowerDVD, PowerDVD Creator,PowerDVD Copy, PowerDirector, PowerProducer and Power2Go and more.

“CyberLink, a true innovator in the field of digital video software, has long been a valued DivXNetworks partner,” said Chester Ng, Senior Sales Manager at DivXNetworks, Inc. “By bundling DivX Pro in their complete product line, CyberLink will enable all their users to create the highest quality digital video files at sizes small enough to be burned to a standard data CD and easily played back on over 100 different brands of DivX Certified DVD players from major manufacturers, more than 20 million of which will ship worldwide by the end of 2004.”

DivX is among the world’s most popular video technologies with over 160 million global users. DivX Pro, the professional version of the video technology, enables unsurpassed visual quality and compression through proprietary encoding tools and techniques including bi-directional encoding, DivX Elektrocompressiongraph(TM) (EKG) technology, psychovisual modeling, source pre-processing and more. All DivX Certified consumer electronics devices, including DVD players from partners including Philips, Samsung, JVC and more, support the full playback of DivX video files created using CyberLink software products.