DivX Helium Codec Alpha Build 1612

3.4 out of 5 stars 3.4 (7 votes)

ALPHA (June 15, 2005)

Windows 2000/2003/9x/XP / Freeware / 11,815 downloads

DivX Helium codec demonstrates the latest research into processor optimization, achieving encoding times up to twice as fast as DivX 6 in the highest quality (Insane) mode when run on dual core, HT and SMP CPUs. Please note that this release takes advantage of multi-thread capable systems, like SMP multi-processors, HyperThreaded and Dual Core processors. You will only see marginal improvement with single-thread systems.

The DivX Helium installer contains only the Helium codec. You will need to install the DivX 6 Create Bundle before installing DivX Helium on top of it. If you are not already a registered user of DivX Pro, you may install the free DivX Create Bundle 6-month trial and install the DivX Helium codec on top of that.

  • Publisher

    DivXNetworks, Inc.

  • Homepage

    DivX Helium Codec

  • Latest Changes

    - Disclaimer: DivX Helium is a work in progress. While the quality and stability is very good, DivX Helium did not go through a complete QA process and, as a result, there may be some issues that were missed

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  1. 4 out of 5 stars
    Gehenna

    Reviewing Alpha Build 1612 (Jun 15, 2005)

    Works great for me,file size prediction is spot on,and completed files looks awesome,runs faster than Xvid because of Heliums ability to SMP on my NCCH-DL (Dual Proc)
    Only downside is you gotta pay for it,although $20 is reasonable enough for the speed increase i get.

  2. 3 out of 5 stars
    patmc7

    Reviewing Alpha Build 1612 (Jun 15, 2005)

    It looks as if DivX will no longer be a free codec. The player will be free, but one will have to pay to use the encoding feature. DivX6 will also not work on Win98.

  3. 1 out of 5 stars
    CyberDoc999

    Reviewing Alpha Build 1408 (Nov 25, 2004)

    this did not work for me....
    when I installed it
    my divX files became larger and the encoding
    took much longer....

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