iZak™ User Guide
DivX Compatibility
DivX® is a new format for digital video, much like MP3 is a format for digital music. DivX® is
the brand name of a patent-pending video compression technology created by
The DivX® codec (short for compression-decompression) is based on
the MPEG-4 compression standard. This codec is so advanced that it can reduce an
MPEG-2 video (the same format used for DVD) to ten percent of its original size. Video on
regular VHS tapes can be reduced to about one hundredth of their original size.
IZak™ is fully compatible with DivX® format and can play any movie encoded with this
compression format no matter which version of the encoder used: 3.11, 4.x, 5.x.
In order to be able to create DivX content you will have to install the DivX driver on your PC
or Mac found at:
PC:
There are various automatic tools and procedures to create a DivX movie. We
recommend the FREE utility “Auto Gordian Knot” found at:
This utility will let you burn the bitmap subtitle of your choice in the movie.
Mac:
We recommend the “ffmpegX” found at
:
http://homepage.mac.com/major4/
If you want to use external text
subtitle then we recommend the
FREE PC utility “SubRip” found
at:
This utility will produce .str or .sub
subtitle text files that are both
iZak™ compatible.
Please pay
attention that in order for
iZak™ to display the subtitle,
both “movie.avi” and
“movie.str” should be placed in
the same directory
. In the
adjacent picture you see an
example that the movie with extension .avi
has the same name with the subtitle file with
extension .str
In order for iZak™ to display the subtitles,
the subtitle file should be a Unicode file.
To do so, open the .sub or .str file with the
notepad text editor, select “Save As…” and
choose the Unicode option from the
Encoding combo box.
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