Flash like Divx container?

[homer_3]

Are there any containers for Divx that are like Flash? For example, if I wanted to have menus pop out from the side of the movie, in Flash you can just import a movie into Flash and create a menu to pop out when you hover the mouse over the side, then export the swf. Is there anything like this for Divx? I've been reading that if you try to import a Divx movie into Flash, it re-encodes it into Flash's encoding and the size tends to double. I want to keep the features of Flash with the compression of Divx.

[Midzuki]

H264 compresses better than DivX and is supported by the most recent
version(s) of Adobe Flash player, IIRC.

[jman98]

There's a Divx 6 container, but I don't know if it can do any of the stuff you are interested in. You can go to http://www.divx.com and maybe ask on the forums unless someone else here knows what it can do.

[Cornucopia]

There's Flash and then there's FLASH. Same format, but different elements. Most people use flash to just encode video (and audio of course) to Flash's supported codecs, but the Flash .SWF format supports: text, vector graphics, sprites, transparent bmp layers, etc. all animated and including interactive elements. For that kind of thing, you'd have to use the real Flash editing/authoring app from Macromedia/Adobe.
Divx does allow for menus and chaptering, so you could add that, but not all the other cool stuff. If you really want/need all the bells & whistles, you'll need the Flash app and will need to import/convert your Divx file.
If a simple still menu w/ hotlinks is all you need, then you could use Divx format (glorified AVI), but there's only 1 authoring app for Divx AFAIK and you'd have to create and prepare the menu elements from scratch (IOW, not rip the Flash you like).

HTH,

Scott