Wie DivXNetworks heute mitteilt plant AMD offenbar eine auf den Athlon 64 optimierte DivX Version für "Windows XP 64-Bit Edition for Opteron and Athlon 64" im Bundle mit dem neuen Prozessor zu verkaufen. DivX ist eine beliebte, auf MPEG4 basierende Video-Encoder und -Decoder-Software. AMD hat bereits eine Lizenz erworben. Das Software-Paket soll als "Dr. DivX: AMD64 Edition" vertrieben und zusammen mit den boxed-Versionen des zulängst vorgestellten Athlon 64 und Athlon 64 FX verkauft werden. Hier ein Auszug aus der Pressemitteilung:
September 23, 2003—San Diego and Sunnyvale, CA—DivXNetworks, Inc. today announced that the company’s revolutionary, patent-pending DivX® video compression technology will support the newly-launched AMD Athlon™ 64 processor. Additionally AMD (NYSE: AMD) has licensed a newly produced version of Dr. DivX™ for AMD Athlon 64 processor users. The new version of the official DivX video encoding application, called Dr. DivX: AMD64 Edition, is planned to be distributed for a limited time as part of a special program to customers who purchase the AMD Athlon 64 FX processor in a box (“PIB”) or AMD Athlon 64 FX processor-based systems.
“Our customers demand nothing but the best from DivX video, and we are always working hard to improve visual quality and encoding and decoding performance. The arrival of the AMD Athlon 64 processor family provides a significant advancement in performance for DivX users,” said Jordan Greenhall, co-founder and CEO of DivXNetworks, Inc. “With the newly optimized edition of our official video encoding product, consumers can create DivX video from any source faster than ever before. We’re very pleased that the Dr. DivX: AMD64 Edition is available for users to easily and quickly create great-looking DivX videos on their PCs.”
The first and only official DivX video encoding application, Dr. DivX easily converts almost any video format into great-looking DivX video for the highest visual quality at the greatest level of compression. Dr. DivX enables anyone to create high-quality DivX video in three easy steps, turning a once cumbersome and time-consuming video encoding process into a quick and easy procedure. Dr DivX: AMD64 Edition will offer significant enhancements in speed and performance, enabling consumers to create high-quality DivX videos faster than ever before.
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