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The new codec by the creators of the old DivX3 is downward compatible but is otherwise completely new. That means it can play DivX3 encoded content but its encoding is much more advanced than DivX3 and it supports 2 pass VBR encoding for better quality and size predictability (that is you can trust your bitrate calculator).
