User guide

DivX Plus Player for Windows

DivX, LLC User Guide

WHAT IS DIVX VOD?

The “VOD” refers to Video-On-Demand. DivX has a VOD

technology that is used on third-party websites selling movies

ranging from Hollywood hits to independent films in DivX format

that you can rent or buy. This technology is integrated in the

back-end of our computer software—the DivX Player—as well

as every DivX Certified device.

When you rent or buy a movie online from one of our partners’

websites, the movie belongs to your DivX Account through a

simple login process. You can also register any of your DivX

Certified devices to your DivX Account, which will activate it for

playing back any of the movies belonging to that same account.

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.

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.

WHERE TO FIND MOVIES

DivX video has been shared on the Internet since 1999. These

video files will play back on any PC or DivX Certified device.

However, purchased 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 on our website, but you can find the latest Hollywood hits

and more on our partners’ sites listed on our Find Movies page.