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DivX Plus MKV extension: Smooth FF/RW

Have you ever been frustrated when trying to fast-forward or rewind a video because your player becomes unresponsive and the video skips large chunks of time unpredictably making it hard to quickly find the scene you're looking for? Rewinding can be particularly infuriating using CDs or DVDs, and with downloaded video even faster media can still be problematic due to the long and irregular gaps between keyframes.

DivX Plus offers an extension to the MKV container called Smooth FF/RW that helps to solve this experience problem by including a special navigation track in your MKV file during authoring. This extension is supported by all DivX Plus devices and gives you the option to trade a small filesize overhead for a much better navigation experience. This article shows how you can try this new feature with the easy-to-use DivX Plus Converter as well as providing information and sample tools that you can use to author this feature manually or to add support in your own encoding tool chain.

DivX Plus adds the capability for high quality surround sound audio to the DivX ecosystem using Advanced Audio Coding (AAC) technology. When combined in an MKV container with H.264 video at up to 1080p, AAC audio completes a truly cinematic viewing experience. To support the creation of AAC tracks for DivX Plus HD content we've created a command line AAC audio encoder. Read on for more information and to access the download!