DivX Player (with DivX Codec) for 98/Me

Most users take for granted the ability of pretty much any PC to play movies and music our of the box. Nonetheless, these operations would certainly not be possible is some tiny components were missing from the computer.

Video and audio filters and codecs are a vital part of the system since they make possible multimedia playback. In the case of more special formats, some particular components have to be installed and this is true especially for older PCs, powered by one of the first editions of Microsoft's proprietary operating system.

DivX Player (with DivX Codec) for 98/Me is a dedicated bundle that offers a lot more than the simple decoder which is used for viewing DivX movies. Once this package is installed onto a computer, the users will be able to create their own content and modify existing videos in compatible formats.

Alongside the DivX codec are provided some very useful tools for processing movies and even viewing online content. More precisely, users will receive the standard DivX codec, the decoder and compression utility called DivX EKG, as well as support for DivX media playback and DivX YV12 Pass-Through decoder for uncompressed video streams.

Other programs included in DivX Player (with DivX Codec) for 98/Me are the DivX Converter (which comes in trial mode), the DivX player and the DivX Web Player, which is meant to handle streaming clips from online webpages.

All the above mentioned components are marked for installation by default, but during the initial setup procedure users have the possibility to manually check the items that will be added to the system and those that are to be left out of the installation.