IV. Finding DivX Content

What is DivX VOD?

The DivX Video on Demand (VOD) system uses DivX Digital Rights Management (DRM), a security technology infrastructure responsible for protecting copyrights while enabling users to legally rent or purchase digital video content online. For more information on how this works, you can read our general DivX VOD FAQ article.

Content belongs to a user account rather than individual computers, so users simply need to log in to their DivX Player account on any computer with an Internet connection using DivX Player. An internet connection is required to play the DivX VOD content because DivX Player is a network application that communicates with the video service to authenticate a user’s rights to view the content.

Thanks to the DivX Certified Program for consumer electronics, DivX VOD protects copyrights for content played on both computers and consumer electronics devices that are DivX Certified. Every DivX Certified device is required to support the DivX DRM technology.

Finding DivX Content

DivX video has been shared on the Internet since 1999. These video files will play back on any PC or DivX Certified device.

However, DivX VOD content comes only from a DivX partner’s video service (basically, we partner with other companies and web sites who distribute content online using our DRM system).

All DivX Video-on-Demand content is distributed through third-party partners' websites. We do not have any VOD content for sale here on our website, but you can see a list of some of our partners' sites online at our DivX VOD Content FAQ.

An example of non-VOD DivX video content that can be found online is deviantART Film. This video section can be found within deviantART.com, an innovative community site for content creators. The site features the DivX media format as the default "high-quality" viewing option for users. Visitors can check out some of the innovative DivX videos by visiting http://browse.deviantart.com/film/.