Faster than real-time

December 10, 2001

These guys are nearly as bad as Microsoft. Protecting there own equipment. All gamers I know are using AMD. So I guess this is for the big guys out there who got the money that this 'free' divX codec is released.

The news that Intel helped to optimize the DivX codec has made the rounds. The manufacturer's development team came to the aid of the software developers. In return, of course, the software engineers had to allow Intel to give their goods a once-over.

After taking a peek, Intel examined the applications' source code more closely and optimized it for SSE accordingly. This is what happened at DivX Networks, which recently released the SSE-optimized version 4.11. In addition, Intel directly sent us a manipulated version of the conversion tool FlaskMPEG 0.6, although we don't recommend using it. This utility is only faster when used in conjunction with Pentium 4 processors.