Now as far as video formats go, I am no expert. I couldn’t tell you my WMV from my MP4. With that said, anything that makes watching things easier though is alright in my book. The DivX browser plug-in is just that. It makes watching DivX movies even easier for those of us who might not be video encoding experts.

This browser plug-in isn’t just for Firefox. They also support Internet Explorer (5.0 and above), Mozilla (1.7 and above), and Netscape (8.0 and above). So what about the features? Here is what the author of the plug-in has to say about them:

This beta version of the browser plug-in is already very fully featured. Here are just some of the things you can do with it:

Playback DivX AVI files (DivX 5/6 video + MP3 audio) stored on a regular web server live in your browser

Save files to to disk so that you can replay them later with the free DivX Player

Monitor your connection speed and the download buffer during playback

Watch video in windowed mode or blow it up to full screen

Seek and trick play into the download buffer

Change preferences for the download behavior

Check for updates and instantly update the plug-in (with prompting)

Awesome playback performance

What else could you really ask for? There are a few more features and known issues on the Web page for the plug-in you might want to read through before you try it out as well. As far as using it on Firefox (1.0 and above) I have to say I love it. I can’t wait to see how the development of it goes next.

Tags: firefox, video, divx, plug-ins