What program is recommended for editing .divx files?

[babalukas]

I need to trim video that I have already converted to .divx. I am having difficulties with some commercial editors that I own that insist on re-rendering the clip that results from just a trim. They produce files that have diffferent characteristics that the one I input. What is recommended for natively editing in .divx?

[churchie04]

Not 100% certain but look into VirtualDub or one of it's variants.

[babalukas]

Well I don't know virtualdub at all but I downloaded it immediately and loaded a clip and tried a trim. All the options seem to be save as .avi. Maybe it's here but I don't yet know how to save in .divx.

[jagabo]

.DIVX files are .AVI files, just with some extra stuff like chapter marks, etc. If you aren't using the extras VirtualDub will work fine for triming DIVX files.

Use Video -> Direct Stream Copy to trim or cut without reencoding. But be aware that you can only start a video segment on a keyframe if you don't want to reencode. There may be 300 or more frames between keyframes.

[churchie04]

.avi is a container for video and audio. Your .divx is a .avi that happens to be compressed with the divx video codec.